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Malacca, Maingay. Diatrib, Java and Borneo. 
A species of which I have seen no good specimen. The foregoing 
description is chiefly copied from Miers. 
4. Tinomiscium, Miers. 
A scandont shrub, jaice milky. Floivers racemcd. Sepals f), with 
3 bracts. Petals $, oblong, margins incurved. Male flower: stamens 6, 
filaments flattened ; anthers oblong, adnate, bursting vert ically. Rudi- 
mentary carpels 3. Female flower unknown. Drupes much compressed, 
ovoid-oblong, style-scar terminal ; endocarp much compressed, dorsally 
convex, ventrally flat or slightly concave, not intruded. Seed almost 
flat, oblong; cotyledons quito flat, nearly as broad as tho thin layer of 
albumen, very thin, closely appressed; radicle short cylindric. — Distrib. 
3 E. Asiatic species. 
T. petiolabe, Miers Contrib. iii, 45, t. 94. Young shoots and 
rachiscs of inflorescence brown-tomontoso : bark of older branches nearly 
glabrous, pale brown, deeply striate, very sparsely verrucose. Leaves 
membranous, glabrous, ovate-oblong, obtuso or shortly and suddenly 
acuminate, entire, the base rounded or truncate, 5-nerved, the nerves 
all sparsely pubescent and 2 of them small ; length of blade 4 to S in., 
breadth 2 to 4" 5 in. ; petiole 2 to 5 in., slender. Racemes fasciculate on 
stem tubercles, 4 to 8 in. or even 12 in., long. Flowers '35 in. in 
diam. ; sepals puberulous. Drupe elongate-ovoid, compressed, 1*25 in. 
long, and '75 in. broad ; endocarp rugose, woody. Miq. Fl. Iud. Bat. i. 
pt. i, 87 ; Hook. f. Fi. B. Ind. i. 97. 
Common in the Straits Settlements. Distrib. Sumatra. 
Anamirta, Miers. 
Climbing shrubs. Flowers in panicles. Sepals 6, with 2 oppressed 
bracts. Petals 0. Male flower : anthers sessile, on a stont column, 2-celled, 
bursting transversely. Female flower : staminodes 9, clavate, l-seriate. 
Ovaries 3, on a short gynophore : stigma sub-capitate, reflexed. Drupes 
on a 3-fid gynophore, obliquely ovoid, dorsally gibbous, style-scar sub- 
basal ; endocarp woody. Seed globose, embracing tho sub-globose hol- 
low intruded endocarp; albumen dense, of horny granules: embryo 
curved ; cotyledons narrow, oblong, thin, spreading. 
1. A. LoUREiiti, Pierre Flore Forest. Cochin Chine, t. 110. Gla- 
brous ; bark of the younger branches brown, that of the older pale and 
slightly striate. Leaves sub-coriaceous, shining, ovate- rotund to broadly 
elliptic, abruptly and shortly acuminate, entire, the base, sometimes 
minutely cordate 5-nerved and with 4 small pits between the nerves at 
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