104 G. King— Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 1, 
from a short placenta. Fruit superior, drupaceous, surrounded at the base 
by the marcescent perianth ; sarcocarp thin, endocarp bony. Seed solitary, 
erect, roundish ; embryo in the upper part of the fleshy albumen, radicle 
superior; cotyledons sometimes 3, very long, plano-convex. Distrib. 
Species 3-4, natives of Tropical Asia and Australia. 
Cansjera Rheedii, Gmel. Syst. I, 280. A climbing shrub; the 
young branches olivaceous, puberulous, sometimes spiny. Leaves thinly 
coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate to ovate, acute or acuminate, the base 
slightly narrowed, both surfaces glabrous; main nerves 3 to 5 pairs, 
curved, ascending, faint; length 2'5 to 4 in., breadth 1 to T5 in., 
petiole *15 in. Spikes 1 or 2 from an axil, '5 to 1 in. long, tomen- 
tose; bracteoles minute, linear-lanceolate, one at the base of each 
flower. Flowers *1 in. long, pubescent externally, apices of the teeth 
of the perianth re-curved. Fruit ovoid, *4 in. long, glabrous; embryo 
straight in the axis of copious albumen. Wall. Cat. 1043, B ; Wight Ic. 
t. 1861; Bedd. Flor. Sylvat. Anal. Gen. t. xxvi.; Thwaites Enum. 251; 
Brandis For. Flor. 75 ; Hook. fil. FI. Br. Ind. I, 582; Kurz For. Flora 
Burma I, 237: Valeton Olacinese 158. C. scandens, Roxb. Cor. PI. 103; 
FI. Ind. i. 441. G. malabarica, Lamk. Diet. iii. 433. C. zizyphifolia , Griff. 
Notul. iv. 360, t. 537, f. 1. G. niartabanica, Wall. Cat. 7266. Olax ? 
sumatrana , Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. Suppl. i. 342. Opilia amentacea , Roxb. FI. 
Ind. I, 86 Wall. Cat. No. 2331, G. Rlieede Hort. Mai. vii. t. 2, 4. Wall. 
Cat. Ganscora , No. 7537. 
Andaman and Nicobar Islands : Malacca.— Distrib. British India, 
Malayan Archipelago. 
I can find no trace of calyx in any of the flowers of this species 
which I have dissected, and I cannot find that the ovary has more than a 
single cell. The disc is deeply divided into 4 fleshy acute lobes, between 
which the stamens are inserted. The fruit is entirely superior. The 
genus is closely allied to Ghampereia, which has already been transferred 
by Messrs. Bentham and Hooker to Santalaceae. It is also allied to 
Lepionurus and Opilia ; and, with these, it should, in my opinion, be 
retransferred to the family Santalaceae in which its founder, Jussieu, 
originally placed it. Wall. Cat. 7537 clearly falls here and not under 
Lepionurus sylvestris. Bl. 
7. Lepionurus, Blume. 
Shrubby. Leaves alternate, shortly petioled, simple, penni- 
nerved. Inflorescence axillary, spicate, with large deciduous bracts, the 
flowers solitary at the nodes, or in clusters of 3 or 4. Flowers mono- 
chlamydeous, regular, hermaphrodite. Perianth urceolate, the limb 4- 
parted ; lobes valvate, glabrous within. Stamens equal in number to 
