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thoir junction with the petioles; length of blade 4 to 5 in., breadth 3*5 to 
4 iu. j petiole 3 to3'5 in. slender, swollen and bent at the base. Ra- 
cemes extra-axillary, Blender, branohed, 3 to 6 in. long. Male flowers 
sessile, 1 in. in diam., anthers 9. Female flower unknown ; ripe iuiloros- 
cence stout, woody, a foot or more long : pedicel of ripe fruit much 
thickened, clavate, rugose; ripe drupe transversely ovoid, sub-ooni- 
pressed, 1*23 long by nearly 1 "5 broad; pericarp, thick, fibrous, pulpy ; 
endocarp woody, rugose. 
Malacca, Maingay No. 11G, 115 (in part). Perak, common. Dis- 
trib. Cochin-China. 
An enormous climber, often with a stem 4 in. in diameter. The 
leaves and male flowers are excellently figured by M. Pierre, who how- 
ever does not appear to have seen the ripe fruit. 
Fijjiuukea, Louroiro. 
Glabrous climbing shrubs. Leaves ovate to oblong, 3-nerved. 
Flowers in panicles, Sepals 6, with 3 minute bracts, inner larger. 
Petals 0. Hale flower : stamens 6, filaments clavate : anthers terminal, 
adnate; cells spreading, bursting vertically. Female flower; stami- 
nodes 6. Ovaries 3, ovoid, 2-ovuled ; stigma sessile, punctiform. Drupes 
1-seedcd, oblong, terete, style-scar subterminal ; endocarp oblong, 
dorsally convex, veutrally flattened and channelled, hardly intruded. 
Seed oblong, terete, reniform on a transverse section ; albumen copious, 
horny ; cotyledons foliaceous, longitudinally curved, oblong, very thin ; 
radicle short, cylindric. 
1. F. chloholeuca, Miers Contrib. iii, 42. Glabrous, the branches 
striate ; bark of the young branches brown, of the old pale. Leaves 
coriaceous, ovate-oblong, shortly acuminate ; the base rounded, 5-nerved 
(2 of the nerves joining the central one half an inch above the base) ; vena- 
tion inconspicuous ; length of blade 5 to 9 in., breadth 2"5 to 4 in. ; petiole 
2 to 4 in., rather slender but swollen and curved towards the base. Pani- 
cles extra-axillary, or from the stem below the leaves, slender, lax, their 
branches horizontal, 3 to 6 in, long. Male flowers 2 in. in diam., short- 
ly pedicellate ; filaments clavate, flattened. Female flower unknown ; 
the ripe female inflorescence slender, stouter than the leaf- petioles, 
about 1 foot long. Ripe drupes on rather Blonder terete pedicels which 
ore capitate at the apex and *5 iu. long, ovoid, smooth, pulpy, rather 
more than I in. long, '75 in. in diam., endocarp smooth, 
Malacca, Perak; not uncommon. Distrib. Sumatra, Hornoo. 
This appeal's to me to be a different plant from Louroiro's F. tine- 
ioria, the type of which is in the British Museum. 
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