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snfful ' ti» medio bracteola amplectente inunita. Sepala ovalia, obtusa, tomentosa. 

 Petala exteriora oblonga, obtusa, extus tomentosa, intus subglabra ; interiora i bre- 

 viora, ""laJn-a, granulosa, dorso prope apicem tomentosa, acuta, apice triquetra. Sta- 

 mina process u conncctivi eloogato late ovato terminata. Ovaria dense aureo-stri- 

 gosa. Fructus^gnotm. 



We have seen 63}ly two specimens of this species, one in the Hookerian Herbarium, 

 the other in that oiS^r. Wight. The short axillary branches, bearing at their apex 

 one leaf with a cyme JO^f flowers and a terminal bud, are apparently peculiar to this 

 species. The upper cyu>es are sessile and leaf-opposed. It should be compared with 

 Uvaria spharocarpa, Bluime, with which it may be identical. 



10. M. polyanthWn (H.f. et T.) ; foliis lanceolatis vel oblongis 

 basi acutis et in petioluSm subdecurrentibus apice acutis vel acuminatis 

 rigicle coriaceis supra plater costam pubescentem glabris subtus pal- 

 lidis pube molli brevissim?i ope lentis tantum conspicua incanis, floribus 

 parvis in cymas oppositifolias congestis. TT_ ' '- * u ~ ljr ~ 77 n ** 

 6467! >, 



Wall 



Griffith! Silhet, Wall!— (v. s.) 



Frutex verosimiliter scandens. Hamuli flexuosi, glabri, cortice nigricante, rugu- 

 loso, lenticellis albis consperso; gemmae fusco-pubescentcs. Folia forma et magni- 

 tudine admodum varia, late lanceolata vel oblongo-lanceolata vel lincari -oblonga, alia 

 3-4 poll, longa, 1^-U lata, alia 6-8 poU. longa, 2-3 lata. Petioli glabri, supra 

 profunde sulcati. Cyma numerosse, oppositifolice. Pedunculi tomentosi, abbre- 

 viati, 1-2 lineas longi, interdum vix ulli. Flores 3-7. Fedicelli brevissimi, basi 

 bracteis oblongis minutis suffulti, medio unibracteolati. Sepala ovato-rotundata, 

 obtusiuscula. Petala exteriora ovalia, i poll, longa, extus tomentosa, intus mar- 

 gine et sub apice puberula ; interiora conformia, fere dimidio minora, crassa, extus 

 incana, intus glabra et scrobiculata, apice breviter triquetra. Stamina connectivi.pro- 

 cessu cuneato-oblongo apiculata. Ovaria strigosa. Fructus ignotus. 



11. M. rufinerve (H.f. et T.) ; foliis oblongis basi rotundatis 

 apice acutis vel obtusis utrinque glaberrimis subtus pallidis, floribus op- 



positifoliis fasciculatis. 



Hab. In provincia Silhet ! — (v. v.) 



Frutex alte scandens, trunco diametro 3-4-poUicari ; cortice nigerrimo, ruguloso, 

 ramulorum ltevi glabro. Gemma aureo-pubescentes. Folia 6-10 poll, longa, £| 

 lata, petiolo f-poUicari, cylindrico, vix sulcato, tenuiter coriacea, costa nervisque 

 parallelis, subtus in sicco rufescentibus. Fasciculi florum sessiles vel brevissime pe- 

 dunculati, 2-7-flori. Pedicelli (forsan nondum plene evoluti) i-pollicares, aureo- 

 sericei, infra medium bracteola minuta squanueformi. Alabastri minuti, vix lineam 

 longi, triquetri, sericei. Sepala basi coalita, extus pubescentia. Stamina processu 

 connectivi ovali apiculata. Ovaria multiovulata. Torus convexo-comcas. 



This is a very distinct species from any with which we are acquainted, but unfor- 

 tunately all our specimens have only very young buds. It will however be readily 

 recoo-nized by the large size of the leaves, and probably by its small flowers ; but from 

 the peculiar mode ofdcvelopment of the flowers in this Order, it is by no means easy 

 to satisfy oneself how nearly they have attained their full size. We found it m dense 

 forests on the banks of the Soorma river, between Silhet and Cachar, m Nov. Ib50. 



12. M. prismaticum (H.f. et T.); foliis ovalibus vel oblongis 



utrinque rotundatis apice in acumen breve gracile subito productis 

 rigide coriaceis utrinque glaberrimis supra lucidis subtus pallidis (in 

 sicco rufescentibus), floribus magnis axillaribus sohtanis breviter pe- 





