70 IV. ANONACEJ3. (Hook. f. & Thorns.) [Popoma. 



7. P. tomentosa, Maingay mss. ; branchlets and leaves beneath softly 

 hirsute, leaves oblong or oblong-lanceolate acute or acuminate puberulous 

 above, base cordate, flowers small extra-axillary softly villous, outer petals 

 larger than the inner. 



MALACCA, Maingay. 



A tree ; branches black, rugose. Leaves 3-5 by 14~2 in., rather thin, opaque, dirty 

 green above, pale and greenish beneath under the soft brown hairs ; petiole in. 

 Flowers $ in. diam., subsessile tfepals broad-ovate, connate, hardly larger than the 

 sepals. Outer petals suborbicular, very thick, glabrous within ; inner smaller, very 

 concave, obovate, connivent. Torus flat. Stamens about 25. Ovarie* 7-9, glabrous; 

 style equalling the ovary; ovules 2 superposed. Ripet carpels ^-\ in. diam., globose, 

 hairy, at length glabrous, smooth, blood-red, 2-aeeded ; stalk \ in., stout. 



13. OXVMITBA, Blume. 



Climbing shrubs. Leaves parallel -nerved, nervules transverse, not form- 

 ing intra-marginal loops. Flowers loaf-opposed or extra-axil htry. &'JHI/* 3, 

 valvate, connate below. Petals 6, valvate in 2 rows, outer large, long, flat 

 or triquetrous and narrow, leathery, more or less spreading or connivont ; 

 inner much smaller, ovate-lanceolate or oblong (long and narrow in 0. *?> n<>- 

 petala and glanca), conniving over the stamens and ovaries. Stamens many, 

 linear-oblong or cuneate, truncate ; anther-cells dorsal, remote (small and 

 ovoid in 0. ylauw). Ovaries oblong, strigose ; style oblong or clavate, re- 

 curved ; ovules 1-2, subbasal, ascending. Ripe cai-pels 1-seeded, stalked. 

 DISTRIB. About 18 species, Asiatic and African. 



1. O. latifolla, //./. & T. Fl. Ind. 145 ; leaves ovate or obovate obtuse, 

 base cordate glabrous above, softly pubescent beneath, peduncles 1 brac- 

 teate in the middle, carpels long-stalked pubescent. 



PENANO, Phillips; MALACCA, JA// '////".'/ 



A large woody climU-r, branches rusty toroentose. Leaves 6-12 by 4-7 in., coriaceous, 

 shining above, tomentose on the nerves and midrib beneath ; petiole ^ in. / 

 supra-axillary; pedicel ^-4 in., rusty-tonn ntusc ; bracts ovate or oblong. Sepals orbi- 

 cular, connate into a 3-lobed cup. Outer petals 1-14 i n -> tomentose, ovate-lanceolate, 

 tips triquetrous; inner A in., broad-ovate, shortly clawed. Carpels red-purple, golden- 

 pubescent, liipe carpels red-purple. 



2. O. Maclellandii, //. /. <(- T. ; leaves oblong-lanceolate acute, base 

 rounded or subcordate, above glabrous except the midrib, beneath glaucous 

 and appressed pubescent, peduncle ebracteate. 



EANGOON, Madelland, &c. 



A large (climbing?) shrub, young branches appressed tomentose, old glabrate. Leaves 

 8-10 by 24-3 in., covered above with microscopic scales, reddish beneath ; petiole in. 

 Flowers supra-axillary, solitary ; pedicel \ in., appressedly brown-pubescent. Sepals 

 $ in., ovate, acuminate. Outer petals l in., oblong, obtuse, coriaceous; inner 4-^in., 

 oblong, connivent, flat, with a slight oval basal concavity. Ovaries oblong, densely 

 strigose ; style oblong. 



3. O. affinis, H. f. & T. ; branchlets densely rusty-tomentose, leaves 

 oblong or obovate-oblong obtuse or subacute, base cordate, above opaque 

 and puberulous, beneath glaucous and rusty-pubescent, peduncle bracteate 

 in the middle, sepals foliaceous, carpels elliptic pubescent shortly-stalked. 



MALACCA, Maingay. 



Branches black. Leaves 5-9 by 2-3 in., thin ; nerves rusty-pubescent above, beneath 

 distinct spreading ; petiole \ in. Flowers supra-axillary, nodding, solitary, 1 in. long ; 



