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ceous, ovate, sub-acate, '5 in. long, pubescent outside, glabrous inside. 

 Ripe carpels cylindric, blunt at each end, pubescent, "6 to "8 in. long 

 and "3 in. in diam. : stalks pubescent, "2 in. long. Seed solitary. 



Malacca ; Maingay, (Kew Distrib.) No. 39. Perak ; King's Col- 

 lector, Scortecbini. Distrib., Siam. 



2. OxYMiTRA FIUPES, H. f. and Th. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 71. A climber : 

 young branches softly brown-tomentose, dark-coloured and lenticellate 

 when old. Leaves membranous, oblong-lanceolate or oblong-elliptic, 

 often slightly obovate, acute or shortly acuminate, slightly narrowed to 

 the sub-cordate sometimes slightly oblique base ; upper surface glab- 

 rous, minutely scaly, sometimes pubescent, the midrib and nerves al- 

 ways so ; under surface paler, sub-glaucous, pubescent, the midrib 

 tomentose ; main nerves 12 to 14 pairs, spreading, prominent beneath ; 

 secondary nerves obliquely transverse, prominent : length 4"5 to 75 in., 

 breadth 1"4 to 2*5 in. ; petiole "2 to "25 in., tomentose. Flowers very 

 long and narrow, often curved, 1"75 to 25 in. long, solitary on slender 

 extra-axillary pedicels 3 or 4 in. long, which are pubescent and have 

 a subulate bract near the middle. Sepals '25 in. long, spreading, ovate, 

 acute, pubescent. Petals very unequal ; the outer fleshy, very narrow, 

 triquetrous, expanded and concave at the base, pubescent ; the inner 

 less than one fifth of the outer in length, lanceolate with caudate-acu- 

 minate apex, glabrous. Stamens numerous : ovaries 1-ovuled. Ripe 

 carpels numerous, ovate-cylindric, shortly apiculate, softly pubescent, 

 '5 in. long and "25 in. in diam. ; stalks S in. long, pubescent. Seed 

 solitary, pale. 



A species readily distinguished in this genus by the extreme length 

 and narrowness of the outer petals. Evidently closely allied to 0. 

 cufieiformis, Miq. (Pohjalthia ctmeiformis, Bl. Fl. Javae Anon. 75 t. 35, 

 36d, 37), which it resembles in that respect as also in its filiform, elon- 

 gated pedicels. 



Malacca ; Maingay, (Kew Distrib. ) No. 60. Perak : King's Col- 

 lector. 



3. OxTMiTRA CALYCiNA, King, n. sp. A slender, woody creeper ; 

 young branches densely rusty tomentose. Leaves coriaceous, oblong and 

 sub-acute or cuneiform-oblong, very blunt or even emarginate, always 

 slightly narrowed to the rounded or minutely cordate base ; upper sur- 

 face glabrous, shining, the midrib sometimes rufous-pubescent; under 

 surface pale, glaucous, pubescent especially on the midrib and nerves : 

 main nerves 7 to 14 pairs, prominent on the under, impressed on the 

 upper, surface, spreading; the secondary nerves obliquely transverse, 

 prominent : length 6 to 12 in., breadth 265 to 7'5 in., petiole "2 to '4 in., 

 rufous tomentose. Flowers solitary, extra-axillary ; pedicels "3 to I in., 

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