PopOWia.] VI. ANONACE^. 79 



outer ones at first much shorter, later sub-equal to the inner 

 ones. Male flowers; stamens numerous, appendages truncate, 

 pistils 0. Female, stamens fewer ; pistils 10, pubescent, i-ovuled. 

 Carpels 4 to 5, sub-cylindric tapering to both ends, 75 in. long, 

 •25 in. through, granular-strigose ; stalks '15 in. long, tomentose; 

 torus very small. Seed solitary. Hah. In forests, not common. 

 Selangor, near Klang Gates. Negri Sembilan, Bukit Tampin 

 (Robinson). Perak, Ulu Bubong and Chanderiang (Kunstler). 



21. OXYMITRA, Bl. 



Climbers woody, usually slender, red-tomentose. Leaves oblong 

 obovate large, glaucous beneath. Flowers, leaf-opposed or extra- 

 axillary, moderately large ; buds conic. Sepals 3, valvate, connate 

 at base. Petals 6, valvate in 2 series, outer ones long, flat or 

 triquetrous narrow, connivent, coriaceous, usually yellow, inner 

 ones much smaller, ovate-lanceolate or oblong or narrow, connivent. 

 Stamens many, linear-oblong, truncate ; anther-cells dorsal, remote. 

 Ovaries oblong, strigose; style oblong. Ovules i or 2, sub-basal. 

 Carpels stalked, i-seeded. Species 30, Asia and Africa. 



(i) O. affinis Hook. fil. F.B.I, i. 70; King, Journ. As. Sac. 

 Beng. I.e. 98; Ann. Bot. Gard. Calc. I.e., pi. i68a. 



Climber; branchlets rusty-tomentose. Leaves sub-coriaceous, 

 oblong-elliptic or slightly obovate acute or shortly acuminate, 

 base round, above glabrous except the midrib pubescent on both 

 sides, beneath glaucous pubescent especially on midrib and promi- 

 nent nerves 8 to 14 pairs, 3-5 to 10 in. long, 1-25 to 4-5 in. wide; 

 petioles "3 in. long, tomentose. Flowers solitary on pedicels '25 

 to -45 in. long, yellow. Sepals slightly connate at base, broad 

 ovate, sub-acute, pubescent, '5 in. long. Petals flat, very unequal ; 

 outer ones thinly coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate sub-acute, pubescent 

 on both sides, 1*5 to 1*75 in. long, '4 to "6 in. wide; inner ones 

 thickly coriaceous, ovate sub-acute, "5 in. long, pubescent outside. 

 Carpels cylindric blunt pubescent, -5 to -8 in. long, -3 in. through ; 

 stalks pubescent, '2 in long, Seeds i. Hah. Lowland forests. 

 Singapore, Bukit Timah. Malacca, Selandor, etc. (Maingay, 



