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 648 PLANTS JAVANIC^ RARIORES.

��Li SARCOST1GMA HORSFIELD1I.

Tab. XLVII.

Sarcostigma, Wight and Arnott in Udin. New Philos. Journ. xiv, p. 299 (1833).

Char. Gen. Mores unisexuales (clioici). Perianthium duplex ; utrumque calycinum 5-fidum (raro 4-fidum) ; interius intra exterius sessile, sestivatione valvata. Masc. Stamina 5 (raro 4), tubo brevissimo perianthii inserta, ejusdem laciniis alternantia, exserta. Antherce versatiles. Fern. Ovarium uniloculare, biovulatum ; ovulis ab apice cavitatis pendulis. Stigma sessile, depresso-capitatum, indivisnm. Pericarpium drupaceum, perianthio utroque, interiore indurato, subtensum. Semen ....

Frutices volubiles, tenue pubesce?ites, glabriusculi. Folia alterna, simplicia, integerrima,penninervia } reticulato-venosa, coriacea,_petiolata, exstijmlata. Spicae e glomerulis altemis paucijloris indivisce.

Sarcostigma Horsfieldii, foliis obovato-oblongis, spi- carum racbibus perianthioque interiore extus pube- scentibus.

Loc. Nat. In provincia orientali Blambangan, ubi anno 1806 et in pago Pagetan anno 1809 detexit D. Horsfield. Javanis Kamaras.

Descr. — Frutex volubilis, ramosissimus ; caule tereti (diametro ssepe bipollicari, D. Horsfield). Folia alterna, petiolata, exstipulata, integerrima, coriacea, glabra, im- punctata, penninervia, reticulato-venosa, obovato-oblonga, extra medium paulo latiora, quandoque acutiuscula, nunc obtusissitna et emarginata, 5 — 6 pollicaria, ultra duos pollices lata. Petioli teretes, semuuciales, juxta basin

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