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■when young and dries a pale yellowish-green ; the flower-racemes are 

 much longer and laxer, and the flowers larger. 



8. Melodorum sphaerocarpum, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, pt. 2, p. 35. 

 A strong climber : young branches and all others parts more or less 

 dark rusty-velvety tomentose. Leaves elliptic-oblong, obtuse and very 

 slightly apiculate, slightly narrowed to the rounded base ; upper surface 

 with harsh, short pubescence, the midrib tomentose ; lower surface uni- 

 formly and minutely soft-pubescent : main nerves 8 to 12 pairs, oblique 

 not inter-arching at the tips, prominent beneath ; the connecting veins 

 transverse oblique, rather prominent, length 2"5 to 4"5 in., brendth 1*25 

 to 2 in., petiole '35 in. Flowers '6 or '7 in. in diam., in axillary or 

 terminal racemes or panicles ; pedicels "35 to "5 in. long with a small 

 supra-basal bracteole. Sepals ovate-acuminate, connate at the base, 

 spi-eading, minutely tomentose outside, glabrescent inside. Petals thick, 

 leathery, brown outside, pink within, ovate, acuminate, slightly pouched 

 at the base ; the outer '3 to "35 in. long, tomentose outside, puberulous 

 within : the inner smaller than the outer, more concave at the base, 

 glabrous or glabrescent, the upper part very thick. Stamens numerous, 

 the apex of the connective thick, obliquely triangular; anther-cells 

 linear, lateral. Ovaries about 6, elongate, oblique, pubescent, with 6 to 

 8 ovules : style short, glabrous : stigma small. Rife carpels globular, 

 harshly and minutely pubescent, 11 in. in dinra. : stalks rather slender, 

 about twice as long. Unona sphaerocarpa, Blume Bijdr. 12 : Fl. Javae 

 Anon. 79 t. 16. 



Perak : King's Collector. 



This is allied to M. latifolium ; but has smaller leaves with fewer 

 nerves ; its pubescence is very dark rusty, not tawny ; and the apices of 

 the anthers are truncate, not bearing a broad triangular, acute point. It 

 is also allied to M. parviflorum, Scheff. 



9. Melodorum lanugingpum, Hook. fil. and Thoms. Fl. Ind. 117. 

 A strong creeper ; young branches softly rufous-tomentose. Leaves 

 coriaceous, oblong, sometimes sub-obovate-oblong, abruptly acute or 

 shortly acuminate, rarely obtuse, the base rounded ; upper surface 

 glabrous, the midrib rufous-tomentose, olivaceous when dry ; lower sur- 

 face densely rufous-lanate ; main nerves 12 to 20 pairs, oblique, curving, 

 inter-arching close to the edge, prominent beneath ; length 35 to 9 in., 

 breadth 19 to 3 5 in. ; petiole '4 to 6 in., stout, tomentose. Flowers 1'25 

 to 1"5 in. long, axillary or leaf-opposed, solitary, or in short 2- to 4- 

 flowered cymes ; pedicels stout, lanate, '5 in. long, with a single basal 

 bracteole. Sepals ovate, spreading, slightly connate, golden or rufous- 

 lanate outside, glabrous inside like the outer petals. Petals thick, 

 leathery, oblong-lanceolate from a bi'oad base, sub-acute, the outer 1-25 



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