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rufous-tomentose, with 1 large bracteole above the middle and several 

 smaller near the base. Sepuls quite connate into a flat, obtusely 3-angled 

 disk, "3 in. broad, pubescent outside, glabrous and tubercled inside. 

 Petals very thick : the outer linear-lanceolate, 15 to '2 in. long, trique- 

 trous, rufous-tomentose outside, puberulous inside : the inner thinner 

 and only about '3 in. long, triangular, ridged outside, much excavated 

 and glabrous at the base inside, otherwise puberulous. Stamens numer- 

 ous, with very short filaments, anthers linear, apex of connective ob- 

 liquely triangular. Ovaries elongate, oblong, tapei'ing to the apex, 

 shortly pubescent : ovules about 14, in 2 rows ; style short, lateral ; 

 stigma sub-capitate, lobulate. Ripe carpels ovoid, blunt, tuberculate, 

 puberulous, becoming sub-glabrous, V^ in. long and "8 in. in diam. : 

 stalks '8 to I in., stout. Seeds in 2 rows, hoinzoutal compressed, oval, 

 black, shining. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 81 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, 

 Pt. 2, 36. Pyramidauthe rufa, Miq. Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. II, 39. 

 TJvaria rufa. Wall. Cat. 6455. Oxijmitra bassicefolia, Teysm, and Binnin. 

 in Tijdsch. Ned. Ind. XXV, (1863;, 419. 



Penang, Malacca, Perak, Singapore : common. Distrib. : Borneo. 



Authentic specimens both of Pyramidanthe rufa and of Oxyniitra 

 bassicefolia, T. and B. shew that they unmistakably belong to this species. 

 Specimens of the former from Bangka and from the Buitenzorg Botanic 

 Garden have, however, their leaves rather more hairy beneath than is 

 usual in Perak specimens and their flowers are also rather longer. 



12. MiiLODORUM MACRANTHUM, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 

 1872, Pt. II, 291 ; 1874, Pt. II, 56 ; F. Flora Burma, I, 42. A small tree : 

 all parts except the young leaf-buds and the flower glabrous ; young 

 branches dark-coloured, rather slender. Leaves membranous, elliptic- 

 oblong, sometimes slightly obovate, shortly and abruptly acuminate, the 

 base cuneate ; upper surface shining, the lower dull ; main nerves 12 to 

 16 pairs, faint and much more prominent than the secondary, forming 

 a double set of intra-marginal arches : length 6 to 8 in., breadth 25 to 

 3'5 in., petiole '3 to "4 in. Flowers solitary, axillary or from the 

 branches below the leaves, 3 to 5 in. long, drooping ; pedicels "5 to "75 

 in. long, obscurely bracteolate at the base only. Sepals broadly ovate, 

 sub-acute, coriaceous, pubescent at the edges inside, glabrous outside, 

 connate for half their length, '45 in. long. Petals greenish- white, becom- 

 ing yellowish, coriaceous ; narrowly lineai'-lanceolate, acuminate, the 

 outer row flat, adpressed-puberulous with a glabrous patch at the base 

 inside, 3 to 5 in. long; the inner row only 1 to 1"25 in. long, cohering 

 by their edges, vaulted at the base and with a glabrous patch ; the limb 

 keeled inside, puberulous on both surfaces. Stamens numerous, the 

 anther-cells linear, elongate ; apical process of connective narrowly tri- 



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