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angular, pointed. Ovaries numerous, narrowly oblong, adpressed-rufous- 

 pubescent, 4-ovuled : style nearly as long as the ovary, cylindric, bent 

 oatwards, glabrous ; stigma small, slightly bifid. Bipe carpels oblong, 

 blunt, tapering at the base, slightly rugose, glabrous, 1*25 to 1'5 in. long 

 and about '5 or '6 in. in diam. : stalk '4 to '5 in. Seeds 1 or 2, com- 

 pressed, ovoid, smooth. Unona macrantha, Kurz. in Andam. Report, Ed. 

 I, App. B. I : Pyramidanthe macrantha, Kurz. 1. c. Ed. 2, p. 29. 



S. Andaman ; Kurz, King's Collector. 



In some of its characters, (e. g., the erect habit, the fewness of the 

 ovules, and the thin textare and flatness of the much elongated outer 

 petals) this does not quite conform to the characters of typical Melodo- 

 rum. By its thin elongated outer petals, it approaches the Dasymasch- 

 alon section of Unona ; but the fewness of its ovnles excludes it there- 

 from. From Xylopia, which it in some respects resembles, it is chiefly 

 excluded by the very convex torus of its flowers, and by the very pointed 

 apical appendage of its stamens. The stamens on the other hand are 

 those of Melodortcm, and the petals resemble those of 31. prismaticiim 

 {Pyramidanthe rufa, Miq.). On the whole therefore, I think, it best to 

 leave this plant in the genus to which Kurz finally referred it. 



13. Melodorum elegans. Hook. fil. and Thoms. Fl. Ind. 122. A 

 large climber : young branches slender, puberulous at first, ultimately 

 glabrous, dark-coloured. Leaves thinly coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate 

 acuminate, slightly narrowed to the rounded base : upper surface oliva- 

 ceous when di-y, glabrous : lower paler, puberulous, minutely reticulate, 

 the 12 or 13 pairs of main nerves spreading, faint : length 25 to 35 in., 

 breadth 1 to 125 in., petiole "25 to "35 in. Flowers axillary, solitary or 

 2 or 3 in a fascicle, "35 to '65 in. long : pedicels slender, '35 to 6 in. long 

 often deflexed, with 2 or 3 minute basal bracteoles. Sepals ovate, acute, 

 united at the base only, spreading, outside tubercular and pubescent, 

 inside glabrous and concave, '1 in. long. Petals leathery, the outer 

 broadly ovate, sometimes minutely ovate-oblong, silky, rufous-tomentose 

 outside, hoary-puberulous within, with a perfectly glabrous patch at the 

 concave base, 35 to 6 in long : inner petals only '25 in. long, very thick, 

 triquetrous and puberulous above, concave and glabrous at the base, 

 inside. Stamens numerous, with filaments half as long as the anther- 

 cells ; apical process of connective short, thick, obliquely triangular. 

 Ovaries narrowly oblong, glabrous, with 8 ovules in 2 rows : style short, 

 lateral. Bipe carpels ovoiA or ovoid-globose, blunt at each end, glabrous, 

 •35 to "5 in. long : stalks slender, 25 in. long, compressed, black, shining, 

 pitted. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 82 : Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, pt. 2, p. 36. 

 Uvaria elegans, Wall. Cat. 6474. A. 



This is closely allied to M. fulyens, 11. f . and T. ; but its flowers have 



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