168 
-ovario adpresse pubescente, stylo perbrevi, stigmate grandi, 
-ovulo subbasilari solitario distinguenda. 
Frutez, ramulis juventute dense plus minusve adpresse 
ferrugineo-tomentellis.. Folia oblonga vel oblanceolato-oblonga, 
apice acuminata, subobtusa, basi rotundata, cuneato-rotundata 
vel cordatula, ad 15 cm. longa et 5-5 em. lata, chartacea, supra 
nisi ad costam ubi pubescentia puberulave matura. glabra, 
juvenilia aliter haud diu albo-pilosa, subtus breviter cupreo- 
vel rufo-pubescentia, nervis lateralibus utrinque 15-17 supra 
subconspicuis subtus prominentibus, nervulis subtus conspicuis 
vel prominulis, margine integra, petiolo 4-5 mm. longo ut ramulis 
induto suffulta. Flores solitarii, conspicue supra-axillares, breviter 
pedicellati, pallide virides, odorati (ex Kerr); bracteola paulo 
infra calycem sita, late lanceolata, 4 mm. longa. WSepala late 
ovata, obtusa, circa 6 mm. longa, 6 mm. lata, facie utraque 
adpresse cupreo-pubescentia. Petala exteriora anguste oblonga, 
apice obtusa, 3-4 em. longa,.1 cm. lata, facie utraque adpresse 
pubescentia, interiora circa 8 mm. longa, late breviter unguicu- 
lata. Antherae 1 mm. longae, loculis lateralibus, connectivo 
apice truncato. Carpella adpresse pubescentia, 1 mm. longa, 
apice constricta; stylus circa 0-5 mm. longus, stigmate truncato 
circa 0-5 mm. lato; ovula solitaria, subbasilaria. 
Chiengmai, 300 m., cult., Kerr 3312. 
Mitrephora Collinsae, Craib [Anonaceae-Mitrephoreae]; ab 
affini M. Hdwardsii, Pierre, petiolo longiore, cortice fusciore 
inter alia distinguenda. 
Ramuli primo densius fulvo- vel ferrugineo-pubescentes, mox 
glabri, fulvo-corticati, lenticellis paucis subconspicuis. Folia 
oblonga vel subelliptica, apice breviter acuminata, rarius 
rotundata, basi cordatula vel fere truncata ad 8-2 cm. longa 
et 5 cm. lata, subcoriacea, supra ad costam densius molliter 
pubescentia, demum glabra, subtus primo dense adpresse fulvo- 
pubescentia, demum ad costam nervosque laterales breviter 
pubescentia, aliter puberula vel fere glabra, nervis lateralibus 
utrinque circa 12 supra parum impressis subtus prominentibus, 
nervulis subtus subconspicuis, margine integra, petiolo 3-4 mm. 
longo suffulta. Flores in speciminibus visis infeliciter manci. 
Alabastra densius adpresse ferrugineo-pubescentia. 
S. Siam, Mrs. D. J. Collins 507. 
Sphaerocoryne clavipes, Craib, comb. nov. S. siamensis, 
Scheff. mss. (ex Boerl. in Ic. Bogor. t. LKXIX&). Unona Mesnyi, 
Pierre, Fl. For. Cochin. t. 17 pro parte (1880). Polyalthia 
sramensis, Boerl., l.c. Popowia Mesnyi, Craib in Kew Bull. 1914 
p. 5. P. aberrans, Pierre ex Finet et Gagnep. in Bull. Soc. Bot. 
Fr., Mém. 4 p. 109 et in Fl. Gén. Indo-Chine I. p. 83, vix Poly- 
althia aberrans, Maingay. Melodorum clavipes, Hance in Journ. 
Bot. 1877 p. 328, 
