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S. Andaman; Kurz, King. Bnrniah : Martaban, Wallich. 



Orophea undulata, (Pierre Fl. Forest. Coch. -Chine t. 45) must be 

 closely allied to this, as must also the same author's 0. anceps, (1. c. t 

 46). 



16. MiTREPHORA, Blume. 

 Trees. Leaves coriaceous, strongly ribbed, plaited in vernation. 

 Flowers usually terminal or leaf-opposed, sometimes 1-sexual. Sepals 3, 

 orbicular or ovate. Petals 6, 2-seriate, valvate ; oiiter ovate, thin, veined ; 

 inner clawed, vaulted and cohering. Stamens oblong-cuneate ; the anther- 

 cells dorsal, remote, the connective bi'oadly truncate at the apex. Ovaries 

 oblong ; style oblong or clavate, ventrally furrowed ; ovules 4 or more, 

 2-seriate. Bipe carpels globose or ovoid, stalked or sub-sessile. — Distrib. 

 Species about 10 ; tropical Asiatic. 

 Flowers hermaphrodite ... ... ,.. 1. M. Maingayi. 



Flowers unisexual. 



Ripe carpels ovoid, apiculate, rugulose ... 2. M. reticulata. 



„ „ globular, not apiculate, not rugulose 3. M. macrophylla 



„ ,, sub-globular, sub-truncate at each 



end, rugulose ... ... 4. M. Prainii. 



1. MiTREPHORA Maingayi, Hook. fil. and Thoms. Fl. Br. Ind. 1, 77. 

 A tree 20 to 50 feet high : young branches softly rufous-tomentose 

 afterwards glabrous dark-coloured and striate. Leaves coriaceous, 

 oblong to ovate, (oblong-lanceolate in var. Kiirzii), acute or shortly and 

 bluntly acuminate, the base rounded or sub-cuneate ; upper surface 

 shining, glabrous except the pubescent midrib ; under surface glabres- 

 cent, the midrib and nerves thinly adpressed-pubescent ; (pubescent 

 in var. Knrzii) ; main nerves 6 to 10 pairs, oblique, curving, slightly 

 prominent beneath : length 3 to 55 in., breadth 15 to 2 in., petiole 

 "3 to "4 in. Flowers 1 in. or more in diam., axillary or leaf-opposed, 

 solitary or 2 or 3 in a multi-bracteolate and tomentose raceme ; pedi- 

 cels '5 to 1*5 in. (lengthening with age), bracteolate. Sepals connate 

 into a cup, broadly ovate, acute, (or obtuse in var.) tomentose. Petals 

 rather thinly pale yellow mottled with red, all moi-e or less pubescent out- 

 side, the outer orbicular or obovate with undulate erose edges, slightly 

 narrowed at the base, (oblong in var. Kurzii) ; inner shorter, the outer very 

 pubescent inside, vaulted, ovate or cordate with a long linear claw. 

 Anthers numerous, short, with broad flat smooth tops. Ovaries gradually 

 narrowed into the short style ; ovules 4 ; stigma sub-capitate-discoid. 

 Bipe carpels broadly ovoid, blunt at each end, densely tomentose, 1 in. 

 long, and 75 in. in diam. : their stalks stout, '75 in. Seeds 4, compressed. 

 II. Teysviannii, Scheff. in Flora LII (1869), 302. Uvariaobtusa (not of 



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