1895.] G. King— Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 121 
Andamans or Tenasserim ; Heifer (Kew Distrib.), No. 817.—Dis- 
trib. Sumatra ; Lebong Moesie, Teysmann. 
I include this species here although it is not clear whether Heifer’s 
specimen was collected in the Andamans or in the Tenasserim Proviuce 
of Biirmah. This differs from G. longe-racemosa by its shorter more 
slender racemes, and much smaller flowers. Other differences will no 
doubt be found when both plants are properly collected. At present 
the materials of S. gracile are very poor indeed. They are, however, 
sufficient to demonstrate that the plant so long known as Phleboca- 
lymna Grifjithii does not belong to the same genus as the specimens on 
which Miquel founded his genus Gonocaryum. 
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16. Phytocrene, Wall. 
Climbing shrubs, usually more or less hairy, often prickly ; wood 
with very large porous vessels and thick medullary rays, but no annual 
rings. Leaves alternate, petiolate, entire or palmately-lobed. Flowers 
dioecious, monochlamydeous ; male in small globose' clusters borne on 
long branching spikes; female in large solitary globose pedunculate 
heads. Male flowers each with an involucre of 3-5 free pieces ; the perianth 
single, of 4 pieces, free, or united below and deeply 4-lobed, valvate. 
Stamens as many as the pieces of the perianth and alternate with them, 
the filaments hypogynous ; anthers 2-celled, introrse, dehiscing longitu¬ 
dinally; pollen grains globose, the rudimentary pistil small. Female 
flowers without involucels; the perianth as in the males, more or less 
persistent in the fruit; staminodes minute, tooth-like, as many as the 
pieces of the perianth, or absent. Pistil sessile, 1-celled, villous ; style 
thick, tapering; stigma large, sub-capitate or discoid, lobed or emar- 
ginate; ovules 2, collateral, suspended from near the apex of the cavity, 
raphe dorsal, micropyle superior. Drupes many, in globose heads, 
bristly or echinate; stone hard, 1-celled, 1-seeded, pitted externally. 
Seed pendulous; embryo as long as the fleshy albumen ; radicle superior, 
short; cotyledons large, flat, appressed.— Distrib. Species 8, all natives 
of India and the Malayan Archipelago. 
There is a difference of opinion as to the nature of the organs at 
the base of the flowers, some authors regarding them as a calyx, while 
others (e. g. Baillon) regard them as bracteoles. I adopt the latter 
view, chiefly because these bodies are not isomerous with the inner 
whorls of the perianth (corolla of some) or with the stamens. A further 
argument for considering 'them as bracteoles is found in the allied 
genus Miquelia } in the males of which similar organs are found, and 
where they are separated from the flower by a long pedicel. 
J. ii. 16 
