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5. OxYMiTFA GLAUCA, H. f. and Til. Fl. Iiicl. 146 ; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. 

 Ind. I, 71. A slender woody climber : young branches sliglitly tomen- 

 tose, soon becoming glabrous. Leaves thinly coriaceous, elliptic, ellip- 

 tic-lanceolate to lanceolate, obtuse, acute or shortly acuminate ; the 

 base rounded, sometimes slightly narrowed ; upper surface glabrous, the 

 midrib and sometimes the nerves pubescent ; the lower very pale, glauc- 

 ous, glabrous or sparsely puberulous, the midrib pubescent ; main nerves 

 8 to 12 spairs, spreading, prominent beneath : length 4 to 6 in., bi-eadth 

 1'5 to 2 in. ; petiole '2 in., pubescent. Flowers solitary, extra-axillary, 

 narrow and elongate ; pedicels slender, "5 in. long, with a median subulate 

 bract, longer in fruit. Sepals connate at the base, broadly ovate, much 

 acuminate, adpressed-pubescent, "25 in., long. Petals very unequal : the 

 outer thickly coriaceous, linear-lanceolate, sub-acute, slightly expanded 

 and sub-concave at the base, outside minutely pubescent; inside glab- 

 rous, the midrib prominent : inner petals with sub-oi'bicular bases 

 (cleft in the middle), and long acuminate points, glabrous, only about 

 one-fifth as long as the outer. Ovaries hairy ; ovule solitary. Carpels 

 many, ovoid, slightly apiculate, '4 in. long and '25 in. in diam., minutely 

 tomentose ; stalks slender, "75 in. long. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. 2, 50. 



Penang, Malacca: Maingay (Kew Distrib.) 'No. 58. Perak ; com- 

 mon at low-elevations. Distrib. : Sumatra, Beccari, No. G26. 



19. Melodorum, Dunal. 

 Climbing shi'ubs. Floivers terminal, axillary and leaf-opposed, fasci 

 cled or paniclod ; buds triquetrous. Sepals 8, small, valvate, connate 

 below. Pe/aZ« 6, valvate, in 2 rows ; outer plano-convex or trigonous: 

 inner triquetrous above, hollowed below on the inner face. Stamens 

 many; anther-cells dorsal, contiguous ; top of connective more or less 

 flattened, triangular, quadrate or orbicular. Pistils many, free ; style 

 oblong; ovules 2 or more. Hipe carpels berried. — Distrib: — species 

 about 35. Tropical Asia and Africa ; Australia. 



Section I. Melodordm proper. Ow/er^f/aZs oblong-ovate ; ovaries 

 hairy, ovules usually more than 4. Seeds smooth (unknown in M. litseae- 

 folium) . 



Flowers not more than "4 in. long (often "5 

 in. in M. fulgens), flower-buds broadly pyra- 

 midal. 



Flowers "2 to "25 in. long, in few-flower- 

 ed, lax, axillary racemes ; leaves be- 

 neath hoary-pubescent with a super- 

 ficial layer of flcxuose hairs : ovules 4 1. M, litseaefolium. 

 Flowers 4 to "5 in. long ; solitary, or in 

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