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CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOTANY. 
longi ; $ axillares, pauciores, crassiores, 1-Jlori; drupse sub- 
globosce. 
1. Antitaxis fasciculat a, nob. in Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 2. vii. 44; 
— ramis Isevibus, sparse verruculosis, ramulis teretibuSj strio- 
latis, junioribus pubescentibus, demum glabris, axillis ap- 
proximatis, alternatim cupuloso-nodosis ; foliis oblongis, basi 
rotundato-obtusis, apice acuminatis, acute mucronatis et ca- 
naliculatim recurvis, subcoriaceis, pinnatinerviis, nervis 
utrinque 6—7 arcuatim nexis, superioribus alternatis, supra 
tenuissimis, subimmersis, subtus validioribus et prominulis 
venisque reticulatis, glaberrimis, concoloribus, superne lu- 
cidioribus; petiolo tereti, ferrugineo-tomentoso, apice tumi- 
dulo, limbo 5-plo longiore : pedicellis J axillaribus, plurimis, 
e nodo tomentoso fasciculatis, 1-floris, glabris, gracilibus, 
petiolo paulo brevioribus. — In peninsula Malayana : v. s. in 
herb, meo et Hook. ^ , Malacca (Griffiths). 
The branchlets are rigid, somewhat flexuous, with cupulary 
nodes rarely more than half an inch apart, in which the petioles 
are inserted : above them is seen a very prominent tomentous 
tuft, out of which the pedicels spi-ing. The wood is close and 
hard, with fine medullary rays. The leaves are about 4 inches 
long, 1^-1| inch broad, on a petiole about | inch long : six 
to ten very slender pedicels grow out of each axillaiy tuft ; they 
are 5-7 lines long, the flower before expansion being 1 line in 
diameter. 
2. Antitaxis cauliflora, nob. ; — ramis striolatis, teretibus, sub- 
angularibus, glabris, axillis compresso-dilatatis; ramulis tere- 
tibus, enodosis, glabris, junioribus subpuberulis ; foliis elon- 
gato-oblongis, imo obtusis, apice breviter attenuatis et acutis, 
utrinque glaberrimis, submembranaceis, supra laete viridibus, 
subtus pallidioribus, pinnatinerviis, nervis altrinsecus 5-6, 
alternis, tenuissimis, supra subimmersis, subtus prominenti- 
bus; petiolo tenui, apice vix crassiore, subpuberulo, limbo 
6-7-pio breviore : pedicellis $ axillaribus, 3-5, fasciculatis, 
validiusculis, 1-floris; drupis 1-3, siccis, ovatis, tomentosis, 
stylo lateral! signatis. — In Java : v. s. in herb. Mas. Brit. 
$ fructiferam (Horsfield) . 
This is a female plant very near the preceding, and which 
bears more the appearance of an erect than a scandent shrub. 
The internodes of its branchlets are |-1 inch long ; the leaves 
are 5-7| inches long, 2-3 inches broad, on a slender petiole 
scarcely thickened at its apex, 9-10 lines long : the flowers are 
upon the main branch, which is provided with leaves above, but 
lower down the pedicels grow out of the axils of the leaves 
