1896.] G. Kiug — Matenuls for a Flora of the Malayan Feninmla. 459 
even iu bud, tinder '1 in, long. Bracteoles two, unequal, ovate, acute, 
pubescent; pedicel of flower very short. Sepals 5, ovate, blunt, concave, 
erect, shortly ciliolate at tlie edges. JPetals and stamens absent. Ovary 
broadly ovoid, tomentoso ; style tliick, conical, glabrescent. Fruit unknown. 
Singapore : Ridley, Ko. 6342. 
The only specimens of this are in flower ; and, the ovaries having 
been fertilised, the petals and stamepa (as is the case in other species of 
MeUosrua) have fallen off. The only specimens known are Mi\ Ridley'a. 
They were collected in the little patch of forest which forms an adjunct 
to the Botanic Garden of Singapore, which is one of the few pieces 
of the original vegetation of the island whicli have escaped the ravages 
o£ axo and spade. In leaf this plant is not unlike If. lanceolata^ BL, but 
the nervation and pubescence of the leaflets are different. 
Note. — ^Bosidea tto foregtiisig, tkcre are in the Calcutta Herbatiam aiieciraens 
from Singapore (Herb, Bidloy, without a number) of a pi tmate- leaved Msliosma. 
None of theaa are in fruit, bat there are plenty of flowers, and tbeso closoly resemblo 
tho (lowera of M. lanct'otata, Bl. The leaflota of thia plant are narrowly obloQg, of 
ratlier thinner testuro tlian thoso of M. fanceotat'i, and iheir upper Burfacoa are not 
glabrous (except tho pubescent midrib), and they are not at aU rugulose j tho under 
Burfueea aro densely ooverod with tmeqtiflOy long shining hairs. 
Nat. Ord. XXXVI, ANACAnDUCEAB, 
Trees or shrubs usually with oleo-resinous often acrid jtjicc. Leaves 
attcraato fopposite in Bouea)y simple or compound. Flowers small, regu- 
lar, unisexual, polygamous, soraotiraea hermaphrodite, usually in panicles, 
the ultimate branchlets being cymose. Calyx 3-5-partitc, sometimes 
accrescent (spathaceous in Qluta^ calyptrato in Melanorrhoea). Petals 
3 to 5, alternate with the segments of the calyx, fi'ee, imbricate or 
valvate in bad, sometimes acci^accut, rarely absent. Disc flat, cnpular 
or annular, entire or lobed, rarely obsolete, Btajnons equal in number 
to the petals, or fewer, or more numerous, often aboi-tive, inserted beneath 
the disc, rai-ely on it: fikiTitents often subulate; the anthers 2-cened, 
basi' or dorsi- fixed. Pisiil in the male flower usually absent^ in the 
female solitary, or pistiia 4 or 6 and apocan'pous, or 2 to 5 and syncar- 
pottst ovary mostly superior ( half -inferior in Moligarna) the locuU with 
a single ovule pendulous from the top of the cell or from its side, or 
from an ascending fuuicle rising from the base: styles 1 to 5 and fi^eo, or 
tbo stigraa sub-sessile, or simple or lobed. Fruit superior (except in RoU- 
garna and Drimycarpus) and drupaceous, with one cell and oee seed, and 
sometimes with accrescent sepals or petals ; or a false drupe witli a 2- to 5- 
celled stone covered by pulp- Seed exalbuniinous : the embryo straight 
or curved: cotyledona plano-convex, mdicle short.— DtftTitiD. chiefly 
tropical .• about -iSO species in 55 geuom. 
