172 lxxiv. rubiace^e. [. Amaracarpus . 
rarely very short, throat hairy, lobes 4. Stamens sub-sessile in 
throat. Ovary 2- to 3-celled; ovules 1 in a cell. Fruit drupaceous 
crowned by calyx-lobes, blue (or red). Seeds plano-convex 1 or 2. 
Stipules bifid. Species 4 or 5, Malay isles to New Guinea, Christmas 
Isle and Seychelles. 
Leaves lanceolate short acuminate, blunt . . . (1) A. saxicola 
Leaves ovate lanceolate caudate . . . . . (2) A. caudatus 
(1) A. saxicola Ridl. Journ. Roy. As. Soc. S. Br. 61, p. 22. 
A small bush, glabrous. Leaves lanceolate, short acuminate 
blunt, base cuneate, coriaceous, 2 in. long, *5 in. wide; nerves 
5 to 6 pairs elevate beneath; petioles *12 in. long winged nearly 
to base. Stipules scabrid with several long teeth. Fruit blue, 
•25 in. long, crowned with 4 short triangular teeth and a taller 
disc, very shortly pedicelled. Hab. Limestone rocks. Rare. 
Perak, Bukit Kamuning (Ridley). 
(2) A. caudatus Ridl. Journ. F.M.S. Mus. x. 143. 
Glabrous small foetid tree. Leaves ovate-lanceolate caudate, 
base shortly cuneate and obscurely unequal in rather distant 
pairs, tip mucronulate, 2 in. long, -5 to 75 in. wide; petioles -05 in. 
long. Flowers in pairs sessile axillary. Calyx short, teeth acute, 4. 
Corolla white, tube *25 in. long, cylindric, lobes 4. Stamens 4. 
Fruit -25 in. long, blue, 3-celled, 2- or i-seeded. Hab. Perak, 
Birch's Hill, Thaiping Hills (Wray). 
62 . HYDNOPHYTUM, Jack. 
Epiphytic glabrous unarmed shrubs with a large fleshy tuber 
tunnelled and perforated forming an ant's nest. Leaves coriaceous 
elliptic blunt. Flowers sessile axillary solitary or fascicled, white. 
Calyx ovoid cylindric; limb truncate. Corolla salver-shaped, 
tube hairy inside, lobes 4; anthers 4, sub-sessile. Ovary 2-ceUed; 
ovules 1 in each cell. Fruit orange-red pulpy containing 2 coria¬ 
ceous pyrenes. Species 3 to 4, Australia, Polynesia, Malay isles. 
(1) H. formicarium Jack. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiv. 124; King, 
l.c. 101. 
Tuber 6 to 8 in. through, irregularly lobed brown fleshy; 
branches slender jointed terete brown. Leaves 2-5 to 2 in. long, 
1 to 2-5 in. wide; petioles -i to -2 in. long. Flowers -25 in. long, 
fascicled. Corolla with 4 tufts of hairs in throat, lobes half as 
long. Fruit narrow ellipsoid, -2 in. long. Hab. Common near the 
sea and on mountains. Singapore, Tanglin; Jurong; Bajau. 
Johor, PulauTinggi (Burkill); Castlewood; Tana Runto. Malacca, 
Pulau Besar (Griffith); Pulau Undan; Mt. Ophir (a small-leaved 
form). Pahang, Iiwala Pahang; Teloim Perak, Tupai (Wray). 
Penang, Pulau Jerajah (Kunstler). Kedah Peak at 3000 ft. 
altitude (small-leaved form). Pulau Adang, Pulau Rawei; Pulau 
Butang. Distrib. Borneo. Native names: Kepala B’ruk; Sanalo 
Api Laut. 
