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11. Ancistrocladus, Wall. 
Smooth climbing shrubs with short supra-axillary, often arrested 
aud circiuately-hooked, branches. Leaves usually in terminal tufts, 
coriaceous, entire, retieulately feather- veined ; exstipulate. Flowers 
usually small, very caducous, in terminal or lateral panicles. Calyx- 
tube at first short, adnate to the base of the ovary f its lobes imbricate, 
finally turbinate and adnate to the fruit, with the lobes unequally en- 
larged, spreading and membranous. Stamens 5 or 10, subperigynous. 
Ovary 1 -celled, inferior; style sub-globose, persistent; Stigmas 3, erect, 
compressed, truncate, deciduous. Ovule solitary, erect or laterally 
affixed. Seed sub-globose, testa prolonged into the ruminations of the 
copious fleshy albumen ; embryo short, straight ; cotyledons short, 
divergent. — Distrib. Except A. guineensis in W. Tropical Africa, con- 
fined to Tropical Asia and the Indian Archipelago. Species about 10. 
I follow the authors of the Genera Plantorum and the Flora of British India 
in including Ancistrocladus in Dipterocarpete. I venture, however, to think that it 
would be better to keep it aa the type of a distinct Natural Order as MM. Plauohon 
and De Cundollo have done : for ita charactera do not tit well into the diagnosis of 
any otber Order. 
I, Ancistrocladus extensus, Wall. Cat. 1052. Leaves obovate or 
ob ovate-oblong, blunt or sub- acute, much narrowed at the base ; pani- 
cles dichotomous, about half as long as the leaves : fruit smooth or 
slightly 5-ridged ; accrescent calyx-lobes ob lanceolate, obtuse. Planch, in 
Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, XIII, 318. DC. Prodr. XVI, 2, 602; Dyer iu 
Hook, fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 299. Atwistrolobus sp. Griff. Notul. IV, 568, 
t. 605. fig. 2. 
Andaman Islands. Distrib. Burmah. 
Var. pitiangianus ; leaves sometimes oblanceolate-obloug, acute or 
sub-acuminate: panicles slender, lax, about as long as the leaves. 
Ancistrocladus phiangianus, Wall. Cat, 1054. Planchon in Ann. So, Nat. 
Ser. 3. XIII, 318 ; A. DC, Prodr. XVI. 2, 603 ; Dyer in Hook. fil. Fl. 
Br. Ind. I, 300. 
Penang ; Porter. Malacca : Maingay. (Kew Distrib.) No, 200. 
Singapore aud Perak : King's Collector. Disthid. Bangka, Sumatra, 
Burmah. 
