Desmos] vi. anonace^. 47 



Bl. Fl. Jav. AnonacecB 55, t. 27 ; Hook. fil. F.B.I, i. 61 ; King, Journ. 

 As. Soc. Beng. I.e. 47; Ann. Bot. Gard. Calc. 59, pi. 81. 



A shrub or treelet, about 12 ft. tall, glabrous or pubescent. 

 Leaves thinly coriaceous oblong or elliptic-oblong acute or acumi- 

 nate, base round or narrow, above glabrous dull green, beneath 

 glaucous, midrib pubescent velvety; nerves, 10 to 12 pairs, 4-5 to 

 6 in. long, 1-5 to 3 in. wide ; petioles -i in. long, pubescent or brown 

 velvety. Flowers axillary solitary pendent; pedicels -75 to 1-75 in. 

 long. Sepals short broadly triangular, -15 in. long, pubescent. Petals 

 3, light orange cream colour ovate acute to lanceolate-acuminate, 

 often twisted and usually connate for the greater part of their 

 length, usually glabrous, 3 in. long, -4 to -5 in. wide. Anthers 

 oblong, tips cuneate, white tipped with pink. Pistils densely villous. 

 Carpels numerous, moniliform, joints 5 or 6 oval, -35 in. long, 

 pubescent or glabrous. Hab. Woods and thickets ; the commonest 

 species, variable in amount of pubescence and size of flowers. 

 Singapore, Garden Jungle ; Bukit Tim ah ; Jurong. Malacca 

 (Maingay). Selangor, SungeiBuluh (Foxworthy). Perak, Thaiping 

 (Wray) ; Goping (Kunstler). Bindings, Pangkor (Curtis). Province 

 Wellesley, Bukit Juru (Curtis). Penang, Pulau Adang. Kedah. 

 Kelantan. 



var. Wallichii Hook. fil. Branches tomentose. Johor, Tanjong 

 Bunga; Perak, Goping (Kunstler), B'landa Mabok (Wray) ; Province 

 Wellesley, Bukit Juru (Curtis). Distrih. Burma, Siam, Java, 

 Sumatra. Native names : Jari Ayam ; Kenanga Paya ; Chenang 

 hutan ; Larut Api ; Chin Ching. 



(6) D. filipes Ridl. Journ. Roy. As. Soc. S. Br. 75, p. 6. 

 Unona filipes Ridl. Journ. Linn. Soc. xli. 287. U. longiflora 

 King, Ann. Bot. Gard. Calc. pi. 80 {flowering spray only), not of 

 Roxburgh. 



A tree 10 to 20 ft. tall ; bark black. Leaves elliptic acute, base 

 round, thin coriaceous glaucous beneath, 9 to 10 in. long, 4 in. 

 wide ; nerves 15 pairs ; petioles -5 in. long. Flowers solitary axillary 

 brown or crimson on filiform pedicels 23 in. long. Sepals deltoid- 

 ovate -I in. long. Petals elongate linear-acuminate base wider, tips 

 twisted, 6 in. long -5 in. wide at base. Stamens triangular ovate. 

 Pistils flask-shaped, densely hairy. Carpels numerous, about 20, 

 not moniliform, ellipsoid i-seeded, -6 in. long, -4 in. through on 

 stalks, -5 to 1-5 in. long. Hab. Forests; usually 2500 ft. to 3000 ft. 

 altitude, but sometimes in the low country. Selangor, Menuang 

 Gasing (Kloss). Perak, Thaiping Hills (Kunstler, Wray). Kelantan, 

 Kota Bharu. 



King confused this very distinct plant with the Indian U. longiflora 

 Roxb., and took his descriptions in the Materials and Annals of Calcutta 

 Gardens, mainly from Indian specimens. 



