150 flora indica. [Anonacea. 



partes novelise sparse puberufce, plerumque cito glabreseentes. Folia basi parum 

 obliqua, rotundata, in acumen longum attenuata, 3-6 poll, longa, |-lf lata, petiolo 

 vix 2 lineas longo, glabro vel puberulo, supra lucida, interdum secus nervos puberula, 

 subtus pallida, fere glabra. Pedunculi solitarii vel gemini, axillares vel paullo supra- 

 axillares et terminates, puberuli vel glabri, 1-1 1 poll, longi, graciles, substricti. Sta- 

 mina in flore foemineo pauca effceta, uniserialia, 4-10 (an semper?). Sepala i-poll. 

 Petala interiora fere pollicaria, ovata, obtusa, nervosa, secus margines incana. Sta- 

 mina in flore masculo capitulum globosum formantia, toro oblongo superposita. 

 Ovaria oblonga, glabra, stylo oblongo apiculata. Carpella fabse minoris magnitudine, 

 basi subumbUicata, pedicello sequilongo suffulta. 



The characters of this species are less accurately defined than we could wish, from 

 the imperfection of the materials available for its discrimination from the next. We 

 have very few flowering specimens of M. Roxburghiana, and those imperfect ; but the 

 present species we have abundantly, both with male and female flowers, and we believe 

 we are right in identifying the fruiting specimens with them. That there are two 

 very well-marked species, readily distinguishable by the fruit, cannot be doubted, but 

 careful observations are still required to discriminate the two in a flowering state. 

 Both are common in Khasia and Silhet. Guatteria umbilicata, Dunal, 135. t. 33, 

 DC. Syst. i. 508, Prod. i. 94, certainly belongs to the genus Miliusa, and is perhaps 

 referable to this species. 



6. M. Roxburghiana (H.f. et T.) ; foliis oblongis vel longe ob- 

 longo-lanceolatis abrupte acuminatis subtus molliter tomentosis vel 

 pubescentibus, pedunculis pubescentibus flori aequilongis, bracteis 2-3 

 lineari-subulatis munitis, floribus dioicis, carpellis torum tomentosura 

 ovalem omniuo tegentibus pedicello longo suffultis oblongis glabris 

 granulosis. — Hyalostemma Roxburghianum, Wall. Cat. 6434 ! Guat- 

 teria globosa, Alph. DC. Mem. 43 ; Wall. Cat. 6448 ! 



Hab. In sylvis tropicis et subtropicis Sikkim ! Assam ! Khasia ! 

 Silhet ! Chittagong ! Tenasserim ! — (v. v.) 



Arbor parva, cortice griseo ruguloso, pubescente, ramorum juniorum fusco-tomen- 

 toso. Folia forma et magnitudine sicut indumento valde varia, 3-7 poll, longa, 1-2 

 lata, petiolo vix lineam longo. F/ores axillares, ssepe fasciculati. Carpella pedicellis 

 £ poll, longis suffulta, subobliqua. Semina 1-2, dum 2 piano- con vexa. 



This is in general readily known from the last by the much more pubescent leaves 

 and branches, but these are sometimes, though rarely, almost glabrous. 



7. M. macrocarpa (H.f. et T.); foliis oblongis vel lanceolatis 

 basi acutis longe acuminatis glabris, floribus ignotis, carpellis nuinero- 

 sis oblongis glabris longe pedicellatis, seminibus 1-2. 



Hab. In sylvds densis Sikkim, alt. 5-6000 ped.! — (v. v.) 



Arbor verosimiliter parva. Ramuli grisei vel nigricantes, glabri ; partes novella? 

 puberula). Folia 5-9 poll, longa, 1^-2 \ lata, petiolo 2 lineas longo, supra lucida, 

 subtus pallida, tenuia, fere membranacea. Pedicelli fructus stricti, superne incras- 

 sati, bipollicares. Torus fusco-strigosus. Carpella f poll, longa, utrinque obtusa, 

 pedicellis compressis rcquilongis suffulta. Semina solitaria vel biua, et tunc carpella 

 duplo majora. 



Though our specimens are only in fruit, they belong evidently to a very distinct 



>pecies, which we have no hesitation in considering as congeneric with those species 



described above. The carpels must be considered as transversely oblong, as they arc 



attached to the pedicel obliquely by one end ; and when there are two seeds the 



F^^oudis superposed, and both lie transversely, as is the usual arrangement in 1hc 

 rder. 



