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to 1"5 in. long ; the inner smaller, glabrescent or glahrous, concave at 

 the base. Stamens numerous, the connective obliquely tii angular at 

 the apex ; the anther-cells very narrow, lateral. Ovaries obovoid, oblique, 

 curved, densely sericeous, 4- to 6-ovuled ; style glabrous. Bipe carpels 

 sessile, shortly stalked, sub-globose, narrowed to the base ; densely and 

 softly rufous-tomentose, about "VS in. in diam. when ripe ; seeds about 4. 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. 2,35; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 79. Uvaria 

 tomentosa, Wall. Cat. 6454. 



Penang : Wallich, Cui-tis. Singapore ; Wallich. Pangkore : Curtis. 

 Penang; Scortechini, Wray, King's Collector. 



At once distinguished by its large flowers, lanate leaves and sessile, 

 or shortly stalked, rufous-tomentose fruit. 



10. Melodoeum Maingati, Hook. fil. and Thorns. Fl. Br. Ind. T, 80. 

 A climber : young branches pubescent, dark-coloured. Leaves coriace- 

 ous, reddish-brown when dry, broadly elliptic or oblong, rounded at both 

 ends, the tip sometimes minutely apiculate ; upper surface glabrous 

 except the puberiilous midrib ; lower glaucous and finely pubescent ; 

 main nerves 14 to 16 pairs, spreading, slightly prominent and dark- 

 coloured beneath ; length 3 to 6 in., breadth 15 to 2'35 in.; petiole "6 

 in. Flowers 1'25 to 1'5 in. long, solitary, axillary ; buds swollen at the 

 base, narrowed and triquetrous above : pedicels "25 to "5 in., stout ; 

 bracteoles several, small. Sepals orbicular, sub-acute, quite connate into 

 a disk, '35 in. in diam. Petals leathery ; the outer oblong-lanceolate, 

 with broad base, flat but keeled down the middle inside, outside minutely 

 rufous-tomentose, inside hoary-pubescent ; inner very small, triangular- 

 ovate, glabrous. Stamens numerous, small, with a broad rounded apical 

 process, convex. Ovaries about 6, sericeous on one side ; stigma sub- 

 sessile. Bipe carpels oblong, tapering to each end, the apex shortly 

 beaked, rusty-puberulous ; the pericarp thick, 1'5 to 2 in. long and '75 

 in. in diam. ; stalks "5 in. long, stout. Seeds many, in horizontal rows, 

 •5 in. long testa shining, not margined. 



Penang ; Maingay (Kew Distrib.,) No. 108, Curtis, No. 1046. Perak : 

 Wray, 1112. 



11. Melodordm prismaticum, Hook. fil. and Thorns. Fl. Br. Ind. 

 121. A large creeper ; young branches glabrous, dark-coloured. Leaves 

 coriaceous, oblong, elliptic-oblong, rarely obovate-oblong, abruptly and 

 shortly acuminate ; the base broad, rounded : upper surface glabrous 

 except the minutely puberulous midrib; lower surface glaucous, reticu- 

 late, finely pubescent especially on the midrib ; main nerves 12 to 18 

 pairs, spreading, faint especially near the tip, the secondary nerves pro- 

 minent ; length 45 to 85 in., breadth 23 to 33 in., petiole "5 to 7 in. 

 Fiot/jers 15 to 2 in. long, axillary, solitary; pedicels '3 to "6 in. long, 



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