72 IV. ANONACEJE. (Hook. f. & Thorns.) [Oxymitra. 



lary, puberulous ; bracts minute, median. Sepals | in., ovate, acute, rusty -pubescent. 

 Outer petals with a short broad concave base, and almost filiform pubescent blade ; 

 inner in., oblong, subulate-acuminate. Ovaries silky ; style short, stigma clavate ; 

 ovule 1. Carpels in., elliptic, beaked, red, walls thin, pubescent ; stalk in. 



14. PHJEANTHUS, II. f. & T. 



Trees or climbers. Flowers solitary terminal or in extra-axillary fascicles. 

 /Sepals 3, small, valvate. Petals 6, valvate in 2 rows ; outer small like the 

 sepals ; inner large, flat, coriaceous. Stunn-ns numerous, narrow-oblong, 

 truncate or capitate, anther-cells dorsal, distant. Carols numerous ; style 

 clavate, grooved ventrally. Ovules 1-2, subbasal, ascending, Ripe cartels 

 stalked, 1-seeded. DISTRIB. Species 3, Malayan. 



1. P. nutans, //. /. & T. FL Ind. 147 ; leaves oblong or lanceolate acute 

 or acuminate glabrous above except the midrib softly pubescent beneath, 

 carpels oblong puberulous stalked. Uvaria nutans, \Vnll. Cut. r>4M. U. tri- 

 petala, Roxb. FL Ind. ii.667. U. ophthalmic*, YiW>. >./ l)<>n (^ n. tit/at, i. 1)3. 



MALACCA and SINGAPORE, Wallich, &c. DISTKIB. Moluccas. 



A climber; young branches brown-tomentose. Leaves 4-6 by 1-2J in., base 

 acute; petiole in., pubescent. Finn rs terminal or lateral, solitary or 2-3 together, 

 fetid, yellowish, purple at the base in-ide : peduncles 1-2 in., tomentose ; bracts several, 

 small, linear. lm,t r petals f-1 in., ovate-oblong, pubescent, 5-7-ribbed. Carpels Jin., 

 beaked; stalks equal their length. 



? 2. P. malabaricus, Beddome Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 76 ; leaves oblong- 

 lanceolate taper-pointed glabrous except the midrib below, flowers axillary 

 or extra-axillary solitary. 



Wynaad jungles, MALABAR, Beddome. 



Young part ferruginous. Leaves 4-7 by 1-2 in., base rounded or cordate ; petioles 

 very short, pubescent. Flowers ^-$ in. diarn., red; peduncles ^-^ in.; bracts 2, minute, 

 basal. ticpultt orbicular-ovate, acute. Uutir^ttaLs t \\ice as large as the sepals, nar- 

 rower ; inner twice as large as the outer, cymbiform, fleshy, intlexed tips contiguous. 

 Style short, clavate ; ovules 1-2 on the ventral suture. Foliage of Uoniothalumus. 



15. GONIOTHALAMUS, Blume. 



Small trees or shrubs. Leaves with small nerves, forming intramarginal 

 loops. Flowers solitary or fascicled, axillary or extra-axillary ; peduncles 

 with basal scaly distichous bracts. X,- jut Is 3, valvate. Petals 6, valvate in 

 2 series ; outer thick, flat ; inner smaller, shortly clawed, cohering in a 

 vaulted cap over the stamens and ovary. Stamens many, linear-oblong ; 

 anther-cells remote, dorsal, connective produced into an oblong or truncate 

 process. Ovaries many ; style simple or 2-fid ; ovules solitary or 2 super- 

 posed, subbasal. Ripe carpels 1-seeded. DISTKIB. About 14 species, natives 

 of Eastern tropical Asia and its islands. 



A very difficult genus (reduced to Oxymitra, in Baillon's Hist, des Plantes, 237), 

 many species of which require further study. The dimensions of the flower increase 

 rapidly, and those given in the diagnosis are supposed to be the mature ones. Thwaites* 

 sectional characters taken from the persistence of the calyx and form of the style are 

 probably the best, but not available in all the specimens at our disposal. 



I. Outer petals glabrous or very slightly pubescent, 

 t Leaves oblong or lanceolate ; outer petals l in. or more. 

 1. G. Thwaitesii, //. /. <fc T. FL Ind. 106 ; leaves glabrous oblong 

 obtusely acuminate, peduncles axillary, sepals broadly ovate obtuse per- 



