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IV. ANONACE^. (Hook. f. & Thoms.) 



[ Oxymitra 



axillary, puterulous ; bracts minute, median. Sepals \ in., ovate, acute, rusty-pubes- 

 cent. Obiter petals with a short broad concave base, and almost filiform pubescent 

 blade ; inner ^ in., oblong, subulate-acuminate. Ovaries silky ; style short, stigma 

 clavate ; ovule 1. Carpels ^ in., elliptic, beaked, red, walls thin, pubescent; 

 stalk i in, 



14. PKSSAKTKUS, H. f. & T. 



Trees or climbers. Flowers solitary terminal or in extra-axillary fascicles. 

 Sejxtls 3, small, valvate. Petals 6, valvate in 2 rows ; outer small like the 

 sepals ; inner large, flat, coriaceous. Stamens numerous, narrow-oblong, 

 truncate or capitate, anther-cells dorsal, distant. Carpeh numerous ; style 

 clavate, grooved ventrally. Ovules 1-2, subbasal, ascending. Rip^ carpeU 

 stalked, 1 -seeded, — Distrib. Species 3, Malayan. 



1. P. nutans, H. /. d: T. Fl. Ind. 147 ; leaves oblong or lanceolate acute 

 or acuminate glabrous above except the midrib softly pubescent beneath, 

 carpels oblong puberulous stalked. Uvaria nutans, WalL Gat 6481. U.tn- 

 petala, Eoxh. FL Ind. ii. 667. U. oplithalmica, Roxb. ex Don. Gen. Syst. I 93. 



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Malacca and Singapore, WaUlchy &c. — Distrib. Moluccas. ^ ■- 



A climber; young branches brown- tomentose. Leaves 4-6 by H^^i in., 

 acute ; petiole | in., pubescent. Flowers terminal or lateral, solitary or 2-3 togetlier, 

 fetid, yellowish, purple at the base inside ; peduncles 1 - 2 in., tomentose ; bracts severali 

 small, linear. Inner petals |-1 in., oyate-oblongj pubesceut, 5-7-ribbed. Carpels ^ i°-» 

 beaked ; stalks equal their length. 



? 2. F. malabaricus, Beddcme Ic. PI hid. Or. t. 76 ; leaves oblongs 

 lanceolate taper-pointed glabrous except the midrib below, flowers axillary 

 or extra- axillary solitary. 



Wynaad jungles, Malabar, Beddome. 



Young part ferruginous. Leaves 4-7 by 1-2 in., base rounded or cordate ; petioles 

 very short, pubescent. Flmvers i-f in. dinm., red ; peduncles i-4 in. ; bracts 2, minute, 

 basal. >Sej?a?tf orbicular-ovate, acute. Ow^er pefaZs twice as large as the sepajs, nar- 

 rower ; inner twice as large as the outer, cymbiform, fleshy, inflexed tips contignous. 

 Style short, clavate; ovules 1-2 on the ventral suture. — Foliage of GoyiiotTialamus. : 



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15. GONZOTKAX.A.MUS, Elume. 



Small trees or shrubs. Leaves with small nerves, forming intramarginal 

 loops. Flowers solitary or fascicled, axillary or extra-axillary ; peduncles 

 with basal scaly distichous bracts. Sepals 3, valvate. Petals 6. valvate in 

 2 series ; outer thick, flat ; inner smaller, shortly clawed, cohering m ^ 

 vaulted cap over the stamens and ovary. Stamens many, linear-obloiig j 

 anther-cells remote, dorsal, connective produced into an oblong or truncate 

 process. Ovaries many; style simple or 2-fid ; ovules solitary or 2 super- 

 posed, subbasal. Ripe carpels 1-seeded.— Distrib. About 14 species, natives 

 of Eastern tropical Asia and its islands. 



A very difficult genus (reduced to Oxymitra, in Baillon's Hist, des Phintes, 237). 

 many species of which require further "study. The dimensions of the flower increase 

 rapiclljr, and those given in the diagnosis ;are supposed to be the mature ^'^^^"7' 

 Thwaites' sectional cliaracters taken from the persistence of the calyx and form of tW 

 style are probahly the best, but not available in all the specimens at our disposal 



I. Outer petals glabrous or very slightly pubescent. 

 " t Leaves oblong or lanceolate ; ovier petals \\ in. or more. 



1. G-. Thwaitesii, H. /. d: T. Fl. Ind. 106 ; leaves glabrous 

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