388 G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Fenhisula. [No. 4, 



panicles sub-equal, slendor, solitary, axillary, shorter than the leaveb. 

 Male Jlotvers crowded, minute ; anthers about 4, broad. Drupes pisiform, 

 slightly compressed, pulp thin, endocarp boldly tubercled. 



Perak ; at elevations of from 1500 to 2000 feet ; King's collector, 

 Scortechini. A slender creeper 1 5 to 25 feet long : not common. 



Antitaxis, Miers. 



Climbers or shrubs with penninerved leaves. Pedicels 1-flowered, 

 numerous, in axillary fascicles, flowers dioecious. 3Iale flower: sepals 

 eight, in decussate pairs, the two outer pairs oblong, pubescent; the two 

 inner pairs rotund, concave, glabrous, imbricate, all increasing in size in- 

 wards. Petals 2, smaller than fourth row of sepals, rotund, concave. 

 Stamens 4! or 8, filaments clavate, anthers sub-globose. Female flou-er un- 

 known, Bnipes 1-3 (usually 1) sub-globose, or pyriform : endocarp 

 brittle, thin, sub-reniform, 1-cellod. Seed sub-globular, concave ventral- 

 ly, albumen none ; cotyledons oblong, semi-terete, thick, incurved ; radi- 

 cle minute. — Distrib. Eastern Archipelago. 



1. A. LUCIDA, Miers Contrib. iii. 357. A glabrous climber, bark 

 of young shoots dark and smooth, that of old shoots pale and warted. 

 Leaves coriaceous, shining, oblong or sub-obovate-oblong, acuto or acu- 

 minate, the base slightly narrowed, nerves about 6 pairs, obscure, as are 

 the reticulations ; length of blade 3 to 3'5 in., breadth 1'25 to 1"5 in., 

 petiole -5 in. Female flowers (male unknown) in fascicles. Drupes 1 to 3, 

 (usually solitary) pyriform, glabrous, shining, about "5 in. long, pericarp 

 pulpy ; endocarp thin, brittle. 



On Ulu Bubong in Perak, King's collector. Distrib. Java. 



A slender creeper from 40 to 60 feet long. Male flowers of this are 

 unknown, and I put it into this genus on account of the structure of the 

 fruit and from its general resemblance to A. fasciculata, Miers, which 

 however differs in being non-scandent and in having tomentose drui)es. 

 Kurz's species A. calocarpa has 8 stamens (although he describes it as 

 having only 4), and is also a climber with glabrous drupes. I have 

 modified Miers' description of the genus as to the number of stamens 

 and other particulars. 



Order VI. NTMPH^AGE^. 

 Aquatic perennial herbs. Leaves usually floating, often peltate, 

 margins involute in vernation. Screpes 1-flowerod, naked. Floral-wliorls 

 all free, hypogynous or adnate to a fleshy disk that surrounds or envelops 

 the carpels. Sepals 3 to 5. Petals 3 to 5, or many. Stamens many. Oar- 

 pels 3 or more in one whorl, free or connate, or irregularly sunk in pits 

 of the disk ; stigmas aa many as carpels, peltate or dcourrcnt ; ovules few, 



