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VI. ANONACEvE. 



[Oxymilra. 



Cantley). Perak, Larut Hills (Kunstler). Distrib. Southern Siam. 

 Native name : Akar Larak. 



(2) O. fornicata Hook. fil. F.B.I, i. 71 ; var. glabra. 



Branches slender, nearly glabrous. Leaves oblong ; base narrow, 

 blunt, tip cuspidate, glabrous ; nerves 13 pairs, slender ; 6 in. 

 long, 175 to 2 in. wide; petioles '2 in. long. Flowers very short 

 pedicelled, extra-axillary. Sepals ovate ribbed hairy. Petals, 

 outer ones flat lanceolate golden-silky, inner triangular-ovate. 

 Fruit oblong, "5 in. long. Hab. In forests, not common. Penang : 



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Fig. 8. — Oxymitra filipes. 



Pulau Adang (Ridley). Dis- 



in Herb. Kew (probably Phillips). 

 irib. Silhet, Assam, Cambodia. 



This plant is remarkable in the genus for its narrow leaves. I have only- 

 seen two specimens of the Penang plant, one in fruit, the other in young 

 flower. King refers the former to O. affinis, which it is not. I believe it to 

 be a form of 0. fornicata, a native of Assam, Mergui and Cambodia. 



(3) O. filipes Hook. fil. F.B.I, i. 171; King, Journ. As. Soc. 

 Beng. I.e. 99. 



Branchlets velvety-tomentose. Leaves membranous oblong- 

 lanceolate slightly obovate acute (or acuminate), base sub-cordate, 

 above glabrous or pubescent, beneath sub-glaucous pubescent; 



