116 G. King— Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 1, 
bent vertically on itself at right angles. Apodytes andamanica, Kurz, 
Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1872, II, 296 ; Hook. fil. FI. Br. Ind. I, 587. 
Andaman and Nicobar Islands ; Kurz. Narcondam Island ; Prain. 
This species was published as an Apodytes by Kurz. The stamens 
ovary and fruit however are exactly those of Gomphandra , to which 
genus I therefore transfer it. In Apodytes the stamens have long 
narrow anthers and short filaments, while the style is oblique and ex- 
centric, more or less curved, and the stigma small, the fruit being more 
or less orbicular or reniform with the scar of the stigma lateral. 
14. Lasianthera, Pal. de Beauv. 
Trees or shrubs, sometimes scandent. Leaves alternate, simple, 
penni-nerved, coriaceous. Floivers dichlamydeous, bisexual, in stalked 
axillary cymes. Calyx minute, cupular, 4- or 5-lobed. Petals 5, free 
or rarely cohering, the apex indexed. Stamens 5, hypogynous, free, 
alternate with the petals; the filaments flat, broad, the connective 
dilated behind and bearing a tuft of long hairs curving over the anther 
in the bud; anthers adnate, 2-lobed, dehiscing lengthwise. Hypo- 
gynous disk cup-shaped, more or less corrugated. Ovary ovoid, 1-celled, 
tapering into a subulate style, terminated by a minute stigma; ovules 
2, pendulous. Fruit drupaceous; stone fibrous outside, woody within. 
Seed pendulous ; embryo in albumen, cotyledons leafy and broad, radicle 
superior.— Distrib. Species 4, one African, the others Malayan. 
The genus Stemonurus, as originally constituted by Blume in 1825, contained 
three species. One of these has been referred by Messrs. Bentham and Hooker to 
the older genus Lasianthera, which was founded by Palisot-Beauvois in 1805; while 
the other two species of Blume, viz., 8. parvijlorus and S. javanica, have been placed 
in the genus Gomphandra Wall, as defined by Lindley (Nat. Syst. Ed. II, p. 439). 
This arrangement is not, however, accepted by all botanists who have written 
concerning these genera. Miers (Contrib. I, 80) for example considers Gomphan¬ 
dra Wall, and Stemonurus, Bl. as identical, and both as undistinguishable from 
Lasianthera, Pal-Beauv.; while Beccari (Malesia I, pp. 107, et seq.) keeps up all 
three genera, and in this, he is followed by Valeton (Olacineae pp. 207, et seq.). M. 
Baillon, like Miers, includes the other two in Lasiandra which however he places in 
the natural family Terehinthacese. Dr. Masters (in Hooker’s Flora of British India) 
follows Messrs. Hooker and Bentham, and I do so also. I have, however, modified the 
generic characters of Lasianthera and Gomphandra, and I have not followed 
Dr. Masters altogether in his allocation of the species. I find the best characters 
to distinguish Gomphandra from Lasianthera to be these:— Lasianthera, flowers 
truly hermaphrodite, stigma minute,— Gomphandra flowers practically unisexual, the 
stameniferous flowers having rudimentary ovaries and the seed-producing flowers 
having large cylindric ovaries with large discoid stigmas, and usually abortive 
stamens. 
