panicles sub-equal, slender, solitary, axillary, shorter than the loaves. 
Mais flowers crowded, minute ; anthers about 4, broad. Drupes pisiform, 
slightly compressed, pulp thin, endocarp boldly tuberclod. 
Perak ; at elevations of from 1500 to 2000 feet ; King's collector, 
Scortecbini. A slonder creeper 1 5 to 25 feet long : not common. 
Antitaxis, Miers. 
Climbers or shrubs with penninerved leaves. Pedicels 1-flowered, 
numerous, iu axillary fascicles, flowers dioecious. Male 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 4s or 8, filaments clavate, anthers sub-globose. Female flmver un- 
known. Drupes 1-3 (usually 1) sub-globose, or pyrjform endocarp 
brittle, thin, stib-reniform, 1-celled. Seed sub-globular, concave ventral- 
ly, albumen none ; cotyledons oblong, semi-terete, thick, incurved ; radi- 
cle minute. — Distrib. Eastern Archipelago. 
L. A. lucida, Miers Contrib. iii. 357. A glabrous climber, bark 
of young shoots dark and smooth, that of old shoots pale and wartcd. 
Leaves coriaceous, shining, oblong or sub-obovate-oblong, acute 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 drupes. 
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 
modiBed Miers' description of the genus as to the number of stamens 
and other particulars. 
Oudeh VI. S FMPHJE AC EJE. 
Aquatic perennial herbs. Leaves usually floating, often peltate, 
margins involute in vernation. Scapes 1-flowered, naked. Floral-wl >>>■(* 
all free, hypogynous or adnato to a fleshy disk that surrounds or envelops 
the carpels. Sepals 3 to 5. Petals 3 to 5, or many. Stamens many. Car- 
p,.J.t -\ or more in one whorl, free or connate, or irregularly sunk in pifs 
of the disk ; stigmas as many as carpels, peltate or decurrcut ; ovules few, 
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