400 G. Kmg— Materials for a Flora of the Matayan Feinnsula. [No. 4, 



globose, few-seeded, glabrous or pubescent. Stigma very oblique or 

 miite lateral, often minute and perforated. Hook. fil. Tl. Br Ind. i. 184 : 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. ii. 113 ; Eoyle 111. 74, t. 18, f. 1 ; W. & A. Prodr. 

 32. F. Wightiana var. pubescens, Thwaites Enum. 20. F. pilosa, 

 Blume BIjd. 57 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. ii. 113. 



Porak ; on Ulu Batang Padang ; L. Wray, Junior. Distrib. moun- 

 tain ranges of India, and of the Malayan Islands. 



2. Alsodeia, Thouars. 

 Trees or sbrubs. Leaves alternate (rarely opposite), disticbous ; 

 secondary nerves often numerous and parallel. Stipules rigid. Flowers 

 small, axillary or terminal, solitary, fascicled, cymose or racemose, 

 regular; peduncles with many bracts. Sepals 5, subequal, rigid. Petals 

 5, subequal, sessile. Stamens 5, inserted inside or upon an annular disk ; 

 with long or short often broad dorsal membranous connectival appen- 

 dages, the cells of the anthers sometimes with apical linear processes. 

 Ovary ovoid ; style straight, stigma terminal ; ovules few or many. Oap- 

 sale 's-valved, few seeded. Seeds glabrous in the E. Ind. species.— 

 Distrib. Species about 50, chiefly tropical American. 



Sect. I. Prosthesia, Bl. (genus). Anthers with a subulate appen- 

 dage from the apex of each cell, and a broad (usually dorsal) appendage 

 from tlie connective. 



1. A. Wallichiana, Hook. fil. and Th. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 187. A 

 glabrous sbrub. iea!;cs membranous, oblong-lanceolate to elliptic, shortly 

 acuminate, entire or slightly serrulate, the base rounded or slightly nar- 

 rowed ; nerves 10 to 15 pairs, arching, prominent, their axils beardless ; 

 length of blade 9 to 12 in., breadth 2-5 to 5 in., petiole '5 to I'S in.; yel- 

 lowish when dry especially on the under surface : stipules linear-lanceo- 

 late, glabrous, -75 in. long. Bacemes shorter than the petioles, with 

 many deciduous linear bracteoles. Floivers 4 to 8, pedicellate. Perfect 

 male flowers ; sepals acute, erect, lanceolate, equal to or longer than the 

 petals. Petals oblong. Filaments short, attached to a 5-lobed fleshy 

 disc. Anthers ovate with a small apical process on each lobe in frcnt, 

 and a single large orbicular hooded membranous appendage rising from 

 the dorsum. P(«<t7s rudimentary, or none. Perfect female flower ; sepals 

 spreading, ovate-acute, shorter than the petals. Petals erect, oblong 

 obtuse, their apices recurved. Filaments longer than in the perfect 

 male, the anthers without pollen. Ovary sessile, ovoid-conic, smooth ; 

 stylo cylindric. Fnoit subglobular, obtusely 3-angled, granular, '35 in. 

 long, dehiscing into 3 blunt valves. Seeds mottled. 



Penang ; Wallich. Perak ; King's Collector, Scortechiui. 



The ilowers in this species are practically unisexual and apparently 



