112 flora indica. \Anonacece. 



Ramuli grisei, vix pubescentes, juniores fusco-pubescentes. Folia plcrumque longe 

 attenuata, obtusa, basi acuta, meinbranacea, glaberriina, 4-5 poll, longa, l^lf lata, 

 petiolo sesquilineam longo. Pedunculi gracillimi, 1-2 poll, longi. Sepala ovata 

 acuta, ciliata. Petala exteriora rotundata, patentia, ciliata; interiora duplo majora, 

 margine et apice pubescentia. 



We have not had an opportunity of examining a flower, and have therefore derived 

 our description of the perianth, etc., from Alph. De Candolle. The flowers appear 

 to be very small. 



5. O. acuminata (Alph. DC. Mem. 39); foliis oblongo-lanceola- 

 tis ad nervos subtus velutinis, pedunculis filiformibus 1-3-lloris pube- 

 scentibus, staminibu3 6 uniserialibus ?, ovariis 6 dense strigosis bi-ovu- 

 latis.— Wall. Cat. 6432 ! 



Hab. In Tenasserini prope Tavoy, Wall.! — (v. s.) 



Ramuli graciles, rugulosi, nigri, juniores dense tomentosi. Folia plerumque louge 

 attenuata, membranacea, supra glabra, subtus prsesertim secus costam puberula vel 

 velutina, nervis validis obliquis, venulis transversis parallelis (ut in Oxymitra) con- 

 spicuis, 4-5 poll, louga, 1-1^ lata, petiolo 1-2 lineas longo. Pedunculi basi brac- 

 teis pluribus subulatis pilosis muniti, ultrapollicares. Sepala minuta, ovato-lancco- 

 lata, dense pilosa. Petala exteriora minuta, membranacea, ovalia, pilosa ; interiora 

 longe unguiculata, iis 0. Zeylanicce conformia. 



6. O.? obliqua (H.f. et T.); foliis oblongis vel lanceolatis acutis 

 rigide eoriaceis basi insequalibus utrinque glaberrimis, floribus termi- 

 nalibus 1-3 fasciculatis, carpellis ovalibus. 



Hab. In Zeylania, Gardner! prope Galle, Champion! — (v. s.) 



Arbor ? Ramuli keves, glaberrimi, atro-fusci. Folia brevissime pedicellata, basi 

 inajquilatera, nempe uno latere rotundata, altero acuta, apice acuta vel acuminata, 

 4-5 poll, longa, H-2 lata, petiolo vix lineam longo, supra lucida, subtus pallida ; 

 margines in sicco recurvi. Flores minuti, glabri, brevissime pedicellati. (Ex. icone 

 Champion, stamina 6, ovaria 3.) Pedunculus fruetus incrassatus, clavatus. Carpel! a 

 diam. |-poll., atro-fusca, glabra, la3via. Semina 2, rotundata, subcompressa ; testa 



nitida, brunnea, scrobiculata. 



This is a very remarkable plant, which, without a knowledge of the structure ot 

 the flowers, we are induced to refer to Oropkea, from a certain general resemblance, 

 especially in the obliquity of the leaves, to 0. latifolia, Blume, the flower of which 

 is also scarcely known. The shape of the fruit differs too much to permit of the two 

 being considered the same species : but perhaps, when the flowers of both are known, 

 they will be found to be congeners, and to be deserving of being genencally sepa- 

 rated from Orophea. Mr. Thwaites' No. 2612, according to a fragment just received, 

 is a different but elosely allied species. 



8. MITREPHORA, Blume. 



Uvaria, § Mitrephorse, Bl. Fl.Jav.Anon. 



Sepala 3, rotundata. Petala 6, aestivatione biseriatim valvata ; ex- 

 teriora ovata, nervis subconspicuis ; interiora basi unguiculata, lamina 

 fornicata. Torus depresse conicus, subtruncatus, medio parum excava- 

 tus, pilosus. Stamina numerosa, oblongo-cuneata, anthens dorsalibus 

 remote bilocularibus, connectivo tmncato-capitato. Ovaria oblong", 

 glabra. Ovula in axi biseriaka, numerosa. Stylus oblongus, intus siii- 

 catus.— Arbores sape exceha, foliis eoriaceis, nervis crebns parallelis 

 conspicuis. 



