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rounded; upper surface glabrous, shining; the lower reticulate, pub^-u- 

 lous, the midrib pubescent ; main nerves 7 to 9 pairs, oblique : length 

 4"5 to 6 in., breadth 1'5 to 2*25 in., petiole '2 in. Peduncles axillary or 

 supra-axillary, slender, I- to 3-flo\vered, pubescent ; bracts several, 

 subulate, hairy. Flowers about "35 in. long, greenish-white. Sepals 

 minute, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, densely pubescent outside. Outer petals 

 thin, ovate-cordate, acuminate, pubescent; the inner larger, trapezoid with 

 long nai'row claw, glabrous with pubescent margins. Stamens 6, in one 

 row. Ovaries about 6, pubescent, 2-ovuled. Bipe carpels oblong, sub- 

 sessile, acuminate, minutely adpressed- pubescent, 1"4 to 1'75 in. long. 

 Seeds usually solitary, sometimes '2 in. long, narrowly cylindric. Kui'z 

 For. Flora Burma, I, 49 : Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, pt. 2 p. 29. 0. acuminata, 

 A. D C. in Mem, Soc. Genev. V, 39 ; Hook. fil. and Thoms. Fl. Ind. 112 ; 

 Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 91 ; Wall. Cat. 6432. Bocagea hexandra^ 

 Blume Fl. Jav. Anon. 83 t. 40. 



Burma prov. Tenasserim, Wallich. Great Coco Island j Kurz. S. 

 Andaman ; King's Collectors. 



Pierre i Flore Forestiere Cochin-Chine t. 44) figures a species called 

 0. Thorelii which, as he remai'ks, must be closely allied to this. 



5. Orophea enteuocarpa, Maingay ex Hook. fil. Fl. Br. India, I, 

 92. A small tree 15 to 30 feet high ; all parts, except the inflorescence, 

 glabrous : young branches slender, black, striate. Leaves membranous, 

 ovate or sometimes obovate-lanceolate to elliptic, acuminate (sometimes 

 abruptly so) ; the base rounded, sometimes sub-cuneate ; both surfaces 

 shining : main nerves 6 or 7 pairs, spreading, slender : length 2"5 to 5 

 in., breadth 1"2 to 2 in., petiole I in. Flowers nodding, solitaiy, extra- 

 axillary: the pedicels very slender, •75 to 125 in. long, glabrous below, 

 pubescent above and with several ovate-lanceolate bracteoles. Sepals 

 small, broadly ovate, acuminate, pubescent. Outer petals much larger 

 than the sepals, ovate, acuminate, puberulous, the inner a little longer 

 ("6 to '75 in. long) ; the limb elongated-trapezoid, puberulous ; the claw 

 narrow and glabrous, yellowish with a reddish band ; staminodes 6. 

 Stamens 6, with broad connective, not apiculate. Ovaries 6, cylindric, 

 glabrous, 2- to 7-ovuled ; stigma small, sessile. Carpels 4 to 6, elongate- 

 cylindric, glabrous, moniliform when dry, 3 to 5 in. long and "3 in. in 

 diam. Seeds 2 to 7, linear-oblong. 



Malacca : Maingay. Perak ; Scortechini, King's Collector. 



6. Orophea maculata, Scortechini MSS. A shrub or small tree : 

 young branches slender, rusty-tomentose at first, afterwards glabrous, 

 black and striate. Leaves membranous, elliptic-oblanceolate, caudate- 

 acuminate, narrowed from below the middle to the rounded or sub- 

 cuneate slightly unequal base : upper surface glabrous, the lower 



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