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petiole ; but in the female the panicle is compounded only to 
the second degree, is more than twelve times the length of the 
petiole, with elongated patent branches, and rather long, distant, 
1 -flowered pedicels. 
Fibbaurea, Lour. — Flores dioici. Masc. Sepala 9, interdum 
12, in ordine ternario imbricatim disposita, exterioi’a bractei- 
formia, 6; interiora multo majora, ovata vel oblonga, medio 
crassiuscula, margine membranacea et denticulato-erosa. Pe- 
tala nulla (nisi 6 carnosula filamenta amplectentia et iis arete 
accreta). Stamina 6, inter se libera, centralia, fasciculata ; 
filamenta crassa, subcompressa, subincurvata, infra antheram 
linea prominente transversali cincta, carinaque antica notata 
(an petala accreta ?) : antherce oblongse, coriacese, 2-lob8e, lobis 
paulo divaricatis, connective subimmersis, rima marginali 
utrinque dehiscentibus. Ovaria rudimentaria nulla. Foem. 
Petala aut stamina sterilia 6, lineari-oblonga, obtusa, car- 
nosula, ad basin gynsecii columnaris affixa, eo paulo lougiora, 
sepalis 2-3-plo minora, erecta. Ovaria 3, summo gymecii 
insita, gibboso-ovata, erecta : stylus nullus ; stigma subexcen- 
tricum, e punctis globosis minutis, sessile. Prupa 3, oblongo- 
ovatse, subcompressse, carnosse, Iseves : put amen oblongum, 
compressum, dorso convexiusculum, ventre planius, et bine 
sulco profundo longitudinali notatum, 1-loculare, 1-spermum ; 
condylus e sulci duplicatura in carinam linearem fere ad 
centrum loculi protensa, internus et longitudinalis : semen 
loculo conforme : integumenta tenuia, linea longitudinali 
ventrali incrassata et hinc ad condylum adhserentia : embryo 
(e fructu immature adhuc vix plane visus) cotyledonibus 
foliaceis divaricatis, in albumine carnoso inclusus. 
Frutices scandentes, in Asia intertropica, preesertim in insulis 
vigentes-, folia ovata aut oblonga, acuminata, coriacea, gla- 
berrima, triplinervia, longe petiolata ; panicula axillaris, laxe 
et latissime expansa, $ longissima ; drupae flavee. 
1. FibraureaJinctoria,\iOw:. Coch. ii. 769 j Hook. & Th. FI. 
Ind. i. 204; — Cocculus Fibraurea, DC. Syst. i. 525 ; Prodr. 
i. 99 ; — ramulis cortice lacerate, libro striato ; folds oblongis, 
imo rotundato-truncatis, e medio sensim acutis, apice longe 
acuminatis, acumine obtusiusculo, submembranaceis, utrinque 
glaberrimis, reticulatis, imo 3-nerviis, iterumque triplinerviis, 
longe petiolatis; dnipis parvis, luteis (sec. Lour.). — China et 
Cochinchina, in herb. Mus. Brit. (Loureiro, sine flore aut 
fructu). 
The specimen is valuable as the type of the genus ; but it is 
in bad condition. The branchlets are covered with a smooth 
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