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rufous-tomentose, beai-ing two bracts, one small, the other large, cbo- 

 vate, ribbed. Sepals free, nearly half as long as the outer petals, ellip- 

 tic, sub-acute ; the edges undulate, rufous-tomentose on both surfaces. 

 Petals thick, lanceolate, caudate-acuminate, the midrib prominent, the 

 base concave, both rows glabrous inside, the outer about 1 to 125 in. 

 long, tomentose outside ; the inner about '5 in. shorter, connate into a 

 narrow, acute cone, puberulous outside. Ovaries 1-ovuled. Ripe carpels 

 elliptic, apiculate, pubescent, "35 in. long : stalks '2 in., pubescent. 



This closely resembles Oxymitra cuneiformis, Miq. of which Blume 

 (under the name of Polyalthia cuneiforrnis) gives an excellent description 

 and three admirable figures (Fl. Javae Anon. 75 t. 35, 36D. and 37. But 

 in Blume's plant the flowers are much larger, the petals are falcate, 

 while the sepals are much smaller and have caudate apices : the pedi- 

 cels too are much longer and have smaller bracteoles. 



Perak : Ulu Bubong at elevations of 500 to 1,000 feet, King's Col- 

 lector, No. 10604. Singapore : Ridley. Penang ; Curtis. 



4. Oxymitra biglandulosa, Scheffer in Nat. Tijdsch. Ned. Ind. 

 XXXI, 341. A creeper 50 to 100 feet long ; young branches minutely 

 rufous-sericeous, afterwards dark-coloured and glabrous. Leaves coria- 

 ceous, elliptic to elliptic-oblong, acute or shortly acuminate, the edges 

 slightly recurved when dry, the base rounded or slightly cuneate ; 

 upper surface glabrous, the midrib puberulous ; the lower paler, snb- 

 glaucous, puberulous or glabrescent ; main nerves 7 to 9 pairs, ascend- 

 ing, prominent beneath ; length 3*5 to 7-5 in., breadth 2 to 35 in., 

 petiole -2 to 4 in. Floivers shortly pedicelled, solitary, extra-axillary, 

 1 to 1-15 in. long : pedicels "4 in. long (elongating in fruit) angled, 

 slender, with 1 subulate bracteole. Sepals fleshy, ovate, much acumi- 

 nate, spreading or reflexed, adpressed, rusty-puberulous. Petals fleshy, 

 yellow, very unequal : the outer lanceolate-oblong, obtuse, expanded 

 and concave in the lower third, rusty adpressed-pubescent ; the midrib 

 prominent, sub-glabrous inside ; the inner only as large as the sepals, 

 with broad bases (cleft in the middle) and long acuminate points. Ripe 

 carpels oblong-ovoid, blunt at each end or slightly apiculate at the apex, 

 yellow when ripe, puberulous or glabrous, -75 in. long: stalks '5 in. 

 Polyalthia biglandulosa, Hook. til. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 65. Guatteria big- 

 landulosa, Blume Fl. Javae Anon. 102, t. 51 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I 

 Pt. 2, p. 48; Hook. fil. and Thorns. Fl. Ind. 143. 



Malacca; Griffith, Maingay, (Kew Distrib.) No. 49. Selangor ; 

 Ridley. Perak, King's Collector. Distrib. : Malayan Archipelago. 



The structiu-e of the flowers of this species appears to me to be 

 that of an Oxymitra rather than of a Polyalthia or Ouatferia, and there- 

 fore I have transfei-red it to this genus. 



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