Monoecious trees or rarely shrubs, in Mai. evergreen, sometimes buttressed or with stiltroots; growth mode flushwise, with perular buds. Hairs simple or stellate or fasciculate, rarely with resiniferous colleters, or scales on pits on the underside of the leaf. Leaves simple, spirally arranged, rarely in whorls of 3 or distichous, sometimes crowded near the top of each flush, penninerved, in Mai. entire or rarely crenate or sinuate. Stipules present, caducous or rarely rather long persistent, rarely interpetiolar or peltately attached. Inflorescence a cyme or a simple or branched spike, bracteate, /2 of the hypanthium, 2-3 mm % mm Androgynophore Vz~2 mm Filaments flat, 5-6 mm, free or up to mm connate into a tube; anthers elliptic, obtuse, (1 >/2 -)2-3 by (1-)1 1/2 -2 1/2 mm, the filaments dorsally attached to the filaments, but anthers sagittate and toppled over in anthesis Gynophore 2-6 mm; vestigial ovary oblong, — 3-angular, smaller than the anthers, l 1-1 V2 by /i-% mm, vestigial stigmas sessile, 0, or as a single ± brush-shaped, each c V? irregular disk c $ Flowers as flowers but ovary ellipsoid, subcircular in cross-section, VA~2Vi by 1-2 mm Styles c y2 mm; stigmas papillate, each 1/2 -1 ? Flowers as 6" and 0; stipe 8-18 mm $ flowers or smaller, 10-20 Sepals and petals 5'/2 -8(-10) mm Outer corona high; filaments lV£-5 mm, inner corona 2-3 — mm mm mm — mm mm Androgynophore >/2 -l Vi mm Filaments 2-4 mm, free or up to mm connate; vestigial anthers 1-1 !/2 by V2 (-l) mm Gynophore 1-2 mm; ovary ellipsoid to subglobose, l /2-2 by 1-2 mm; styles c /2 mm; stigmas papillate, each disk as in 6" flowers J l mm 1-2 mmo Fruits 1-2, globose, excl the (5-)10 long gynophore 2-4'/2 cm 0; pericarp thickly thick, greenish coriaceous to woody, 1-4 mm yellowish when fresh, sometimes — fleshy inside Seeds 15-50 ellipsoid-obovate, /2 -l by 4-6 by 2-3 mm, 5-7 pits or grooves 0; embryo 4-6 by 1/2-5 1/2 mm; cotyledons obovate, subtruncate, l 3(-5)-plinerved; radicle c / mm Distr E Malesia: Moluccas (Ternate), W.-E New Guinea, New Britain (Wiriai Subdistr.), New Ireland (inland from Lavongai), Misima I., Is (Bougainville, Shortland, Ronongo, Georgia, Santa Ysabel, Santa Ana, Rennell) Solomon New Fig 12 Ecol Primary and secondary rain-forest, locommon; 0-1700 m Fl.fr Jan.-Dec Vern Aa, Vogelkop (Maibrat lang.) Notes Polygamous, apparently largely (func- cally Flora Malesiana 434 [ser I, vol 72 absence of glands suggested that several taxa might be involved (van Steenis, 1966); a thorough investigation of the flowers of the rather abundant recently collected specimens, however, proved that all the material belongs to a single species In the original description the stigma was erroneously described as single, undivided, cap-shaped, but it appeared (van Steenis, 1966) that this was due to the young stage of the flowers in the type material Australasian Pcissifloras differ by the absence of a gynophore and by the globular or clubshaped stigmas In Adenia the corona is absent or composed of but a single row of short hairs, whereas the disk is composed of separate lingulate or strap-shaped appendages; the anthers are narrow; petiolar glands are absent or restricted to auricles at the very top of the petiole Field notes The bark is green with brown corky lenticels, in old specimens dark brown, fissured Slash: wood soft whitish cream, bark soft, reddish brown Big sterile tendrils reported as present only on the main stems, not on the fruiting lateral branches Leaves glossy The flowers are greenish white or yellow-green; sepals pale green or greenish yellow, petals white; outer corona filaments whitish yellow; inner corona yellow-green, tipped yellow; filaments white or greenish; anthers yellow; ovary green; stigmas yellow-green Once recorded with faint smell, once with nasty smell (6* A-)- The fruits are light green or yellowish green distinct Fig 12 Distribution of Hollrungia aurantioides K Sch The^ and § flowers are usually larger than the ? flowers In 6* flowers always a distinct vestigial ovary is present, in tionally) dioecious somewhat ? flowers stamens with distinct, reduced, sterile anthers In one specimen (Clemens 5435) some of the $ flowers contained beside reduced anthers fertile anther In the flowers a short androgynophore is always present; the filaments are either free or to a various degree connate into a tube enveloping the gynophore The variability in the flowers as well as in the size of the fruits and the place and presence or one well-developed I I I I I II II 5185 00202 6928 I FLORA MALESIANA under the Auspices of Lembaga Biologi Nasional (Botanic Gardens of Indonesia), Bogor, Indonesia, and the Rijksherbarium, Ley den, Holland, executed by Foundation Flora Malesiana Scientific Communications concerning the Flora Malesiana should be addressed to the General Editor, Dr C G G J VAN STEENIS SUBSCRIPTION REQUEST AND RELATED CORRESPONDENCE SHOULD BE DIRECTED EXCLUSIVELY TO WOLTERS-NOORDHOFF PUBLISHING P.O Box 58, Groningen, The Netherlands For Series I Volume - sale only - Not for exchange Spermatophyta (Flowering Plants) & + Cyclopaedia of collectors Volume Volume Volume Malesian vegetation (In preparation) Malesian plant geography (In preparation) General chapters and revisions 1948-1954 pp ccix Volume Bibliography, specific delimitation, cccxlii Volume Volume + collections 1950 pp & revisions clii + 639 631 1955-1958 pp 596 Systematic revisions parts, 1960-1972 pp 20 Systematic revisions Parts 1-2 + 1023 1971-1972 pp 434 I5H8I WOLTERS-NOORDHOFF PUBLISHING, GRONINGEN, THE NETHERLANDS PRINTED IN THE NETHERLANDS ISBN 90 01 31814 ... germination epigeal or hypogeal Fig Present distribution of Fagaceae Add: New Caledonia (265) Flora Malesiana 266 Recent distribution Seven genera with possibly c 700 [ser I, vol spp., the 72 majority... animals balanus doichangensis with their pendulous pollination is — by wind, as it is in Flora Malesiana 268 [ser I, vol 72 Hypogeal germination is found in Castanea, Castanopsis, Lithocarpus... only N.flaviramea, N rubra, and N starkenborghii descending below the mountain forests of Flora Malesiana 270 [ser I, vol 72 m down to c 750 m, the first even to 600 m in New Britain The reddish