Anisophyllea.] 
LVI. ANISOPHYLLEA. 
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ANISOPHYLLEA, Br. 
Leaves sub-coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate or rhomboid; nerves 
3 to 5, radiating from base, rarely pinnate. Flowers in axillary 
spikes, single or panicled. Calyx-tube in female ovoid. Petals 
white or pink, very small or o. Stamens 8. Filaments short ; anthers 
small, abortive in females. Ovules x in a cell. Fruit drupe or 
woody oblong or pear-shaped. 
Leaves rhomboid, distichous. 
Flowers fascicled below leaves . . . {1) A. disticha 
Flowers in 1 in, pubescent spikes . . . (2) A. Scortechinii 
Leaves ovate or oblong; nerves stout radiating 
from base. 
Flowers apetalous ..... (3) A. apetala 
Flowers petalled. 
Petals deltoid; leaves and fruit pyriform, 
large. (4) A. Gaudichaudiana 
Petals divided to base in narrow lobes . . (5) A. Curtisii 
Leaves with pinnate nerves from midrib . . (6) A. Griffithii 
(1) A. disticha Baill. Adansonia xi. 311; King f l.c. 322. 
Haloragis disticha Jack, Mai. Misc. vii. 19. 
Shrub about 8 to 10 ft. tall, with pendent branches. Leaves 
(young red) dimorphous, densely covering the branches, large ones 
trapezoid, polished green, sub-falcate acute, base cuneate, sub- 
sessile, pubescent or glabrous, 75 in. long, '3 to -4 in. wide, sub- 
coriaceous; small ones lanceolate from below the big ones, lying 
flat on branch, *1 to *25 in. long. Flowers, males on the under¬ 
side of the branch, fascicled -05 in. across white; racemes very 
short. Calyx 4-lobed. Petals shorter, fimbriate. Stamens 8. 
Females solitary, larger, sub-sessile. Calyx-tube elongate, connate 
with ovary; lobes 4, triangular. Petals and stamens as in male. 
Drupe oblong truncate, pulpy, bright red; seed oblong 8-ribbed. 
Hab. Common in low woods and secondary growth. Singapore 
common, to Perak, Waterfall, Thaiping (Wray), Kedah, Kulim 
(Haniff) and Gurun (Robinson). Distrib. Borneo, Sumatra. 
Native names : Poko Kanchil; Kayu Pachat. 
(2) A. Scortechinii King, l.c. 325. 
Shrub or treelet 25 ft. tall, habit of A. disticha. Branchlets 
tomentose. Leaves falcate rhomboid, long acuminate, base oblique 
acute, glabrous except a few hairs on back and nerves pubescent ; 
nerves 3 to 5 from base, prominent beneath, 2‘5 to 3 in. long, ‘6 to 
1*25 in. wide; petioles *15 in. long. Panicles ’5 to 1 in. long, 
pubescent 1 to 2 branches. Male flowers 'i in. across; pedicels as 
long. Sepals 4 to 5, ovate acute. Petals shorter, trifid, white. 
Stamens 8. Fruit ellipsoid, 75 in. long, ‘4 in. through, red. Hab. 
Dry open woods, local. Pahang, Baloh Residency, Kwantan 
(Foxworthy). Dindings at Simpit. Perak, Ulu Kerling (Kunstler). 
Province Wellesley, Tasek Gelugur. Native name : Kayu Ribu- 
Ribu. 
