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globose, few-seeded, glabrous or pubescent. Stigma very oblique or 
quite lateral, often minute ami perforated. Hook. fil. PL Br Ind. i. 184: 
Miq. FL Ind. Bat. i. pt. ii. 113 ; Royle III. 74, t. 18, f. I ; W. & A. Prodr. 
32. V. Wight tana var. pubescens, Thwnites Enum. 20. V. jnlosa^ 
Blumo Bijd. 57 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. ii. 113. 
Perak ; on Ulu Batang Padang; L. Wray, Junior. Distrib. moun- 
tain ranges of India, and of the Malayan Islands, 
2. At.sokeia, Thouars. 
Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate (rarely opposite), distichous ; 
secondary nerves often numerous and parallel. Stipules rigid. Flowers 
small, axillary or terminal, solitary, fascicled, eyrooso or racemose, 
regular; peduncles with many bracts. Sepal* subcqnal, rigid. Petal* 
5, Rubequal, sessile. Stame?is 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. Cap- 
sule 3-valved, few seeded. Seeds glabrous in the E. Ind. species. — 
Distrib. Species about 50, chiefly tropical American. 
Sect. I. Prostlwsia, Bl. (genus). Anthers with a snbulato appen- 
dage from tbo apex of each cell, and a broad (usually dorsal) appendago 
from the connective. 
1. A. Walligiiiaxa, Hook. fil. and Th. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 187. A 
glabrous shrub. Lt>ave* membranous, oblong-lanceolate to elliptic, shortly 
aenminate, 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., potiolc '5 to 3'5 in.; yel- 
lowish when dry especially on the under Burface : stipules linear-lanceo- 
late, glabrous, '75 in. long Racemes shorter than the petioles, with 
many deciduous linear bracteoles. Flowers 4 to 8, pedicellate. Perfect 
male floiaers ; sepals acute, erect, lanceolate, equal to or longer than the 
petals. Petals oblong. Filaments short, attached to a 5-Iobed fleshy 
disc. Anthers ovate with a email apical process on each lobe in frent, 
and a single large orbicular hooded membranous appendage rising from 
the dorsum. Pistils rudimeutary, 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. Fruit subglobular, obtusely 3-angled, granular, '35 in. 
long, dehiscing into 3 blunt valves. Seals mottled, 
Penang ; Wallicb. Perak; King's Collector, Scortechini. 
The llowers in this species are practically unisexual and apparently 
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