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



[Melodorum. 



5. UK. verrucosum, H. /. d& T. Fl. Ind, 119 ; leaves 3-5 in. oblong or 

 lanceolate acute or obtuse glabrous except the midrib above, softly pubes- 

 cent beneath, nerves close-set, carpels subglobose densely warted. 



Khasia hills, alt. 1-5000 ft., II. f. & T, _■ 



A large woody climber, young branches and flowers tomentose. Leaves 3-5 oy 

 lJ-2 in., base hardly rounded, petiole 3-^ in. Flowers 1-5, fascicled, terminal or leaf- 

 opposed, buds shorter and broader than in other species ; bracts ovate or oblong, 

 acute, median. Sepals ovate, acute. Outer petals | in., ovate, acute, slightly keeled 



'le tiiquetrous tip. 



„„.^ ^ , . _ ^ Icones iv.), which 



is not referred to in the "Notulae," may belong to this species, but the venation differs 



much. 



inside; inner triangular-oblong, acute, hoary, concave except at the tiiquetrous ti^. 

 Carpels 2 in. diam., pubescent; stalk 4-8 in. — Griffith's t. 652 (of 



6. M. Griffithli, H.f. & T. FL Ind. 120 ; leaves 3--5 in. narrow oblong 

 or lanceolate obtuse or subacute glabrous except the midrib above, rusty- 

 pubescent beneath, tip often retuse, outer petals \ in. Fissistigma scandeus, 

 Griff. Not. iv. 706. 



Tenasserim, Griffith. 



A climbing shrub ; bark dark grey, spotted white ; young branches and flowers 

 tomentose. Leaves 3-5 by 1^-1 1 in., base rounded; petiole \\n. Floivers 2-4 in., 

 sub-terminal in leaf opposed fascicles terminating a short peduncle ; pedicels ^-J }D.; 

 btacteole median, orbicular, small. Sepals orbicular, obtuse. Outer petals i m., 

 inner a little shoi-ter, red-brown, glabrous or puberulous. — Resembles Uvaria sphcero- 

 carpa, BL, which is a Melodor urn j hnt the flower of that plant and the fruit of this are 

 unknown. 



7. HI. bicolor, II. f. dh T. Fl. Ind. 119; leaves 4-8 in. oblong or lan- 

 ceolate, lower on each branch obtuse upper acute glabrous except the midnb 

 above silky beneath, outer petals 1 in., cari>els globose subglabrous. Uvaria 

 bicolor, Roxb. FL Ind. ii. 662 {not of Wall CaU). 



From the base of the Sikkim Himalaya and Khasia Hills to Assam and Ava. 



A large woody climber ; young branches and flowers tomentose. Leaves 4—8 by 2-3 lO-i 

 petiole i-J in. Flowers 1-3, in leaf-opposed fascicles; pedicels ^-l in.; bracle^l^ 

 small, basal. Sepals ovate. Outer petals villous, ovate-lanceolate ; inner rather 

 shorter and narrower, glabrous, red. Carpels 1 in. diam , mucronate ; stalk {-^ in.-j 

 Very near 31. manubr latum, but with usually larger, more obtuse leaves, more lattral 

 flowers, and more globose shorter- stalked fruit. 



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leaves broad 



elliptic or oblong rounded at both ends or tip apiculate glabrous above 

 glaucous and finely pubescent beneath, flowers 1^ in. solitary, calyx orbi- 

 cular, carpels oblong straight-beaked, 



Penang, Maivgay. 



A scandent shrub ; branches black. Leaves 3-5 by 1^-2 in., hard, coriaceous, red-hroWB 



when dry, opaque above with a slender downy midrib, nerves many, much divergingt 

 slender ; petiole i-| in. ^ Flowers axillary, cemuous, appressed brown pubescent ; buds 

 with a swollen base J in. diam. and trigonous curved beak ; pedicel \-i in., stout, 

 curved ; bract small, broad, halfainplexicaul. Calyx a disk J in. diam. Outer peto^ 

 flat but keeled down the middle inside, compressed S-gonous; base excavated ; in^^J 



2-Beriate, horizontal ; testa shining, not margined. ■ 



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V, 9. US. cylindrlcum, Maingay, mss. ; branches rusty-pubescent 

 oblong elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate acuminate glabrous above bro 



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