80 IV. ANONACE^I. (Hook. f. & Thorns.) [Melodorum. 



5. M. verrucosum, H. f. & T. Fl. Ind. 119 ; leaves 3-5 in. oblong or 

 lanceolate acute or obtuse glabrous except the midrib above, softly pubes- 

 cent beneath, nerves close-set, carpels subglobose densely warted. 



KHASTA HILLS, alt. 1-6000 ft., H.f. & T. 



A large woody climber, young branches and flowers tomento=e. Leaves 3-5 by 

 l|-2 in., base hardly rounded, petiole ^-^ in. Flowers 1-5, fascicled, terminal or leaf- 

 opposed, buds shorter and broader than in other species ; bracts ovate or oblong, 

 acute, median. Sepals ovate, acute. Outer petal* % in., ovate, acute, slightly keeled 

 inside ; inner triangular-oblong, acute, hoary, concave except at the triquetrous tip. 

 Carpels 2 in. diam., pubescent; stalk 4-8 in. Griffith's t. 652 (of Icones iv.), which 

 is not referred to in the "Notuhe," may belong to this species, but the venation differs 

 much. 



6. W. Griffith!!, H.f. & T. Fl Tnd. 120; leaves 3-5 in. narrow oblong 

 or lanceolate obtuse or subacute glabrous except the midrib above, rusty- 

 pub -scent beneath, tip often retuse, outer petals \ in. Fissistigma scandens, 

 Griff. Not. iv. 706. 



TENASSERIM, Griffith. 



A climbing shrub ; bark dark grey, spotted white ; young branches and flowers 

 tomentose. Leaves 3-5 by 1 J-lf in., base roundel : petiole ', in. /'/ "///x 2 4 in., 

 sub-terminal in leaf-opposed ta-<-i<-les terminating a short peduncle: pedicels |-^in. ; 

 bracteole, median, orbicular, small. /Sepals orbicular, obtuse. Outer petals in. ; 

 inner a little shorter, red-brown, glftbvotti or pubcnilous. Resembles Uvaria MJMW0- 

 carpa, HI., wb,ich is a Melodorum, but the flower of that plant and the fruit of this are 

 unknown. 



7. M. bicolor, //./. <( T. FL Iu<L 110; leaves 4-8 in. oblong or lan- 

 ceolate, lower on each branch obtuse upper acute glabrous except the midrib 

 above silky beneath, outer petals 1 in., carpels globose subglabrous. Uvaria 

 bicolor, Roxh. Fl. ///</. ii. <;r,L' // ' < ; > II '<///. Cat.). 



From the base of the SIKKIM HIMALAYA and KIIA-IA mi.i.s to A.SHAM and AVA. 



A large woody climber; young branches ;ind Havers tomentnse. Leaves 4-8 by 

 2-3 in.; petiole |- in. Flowers 1-3, in leaf-opposed ia^'i* les; pedicels >, 1 in.; brac- 

 teole small, basal. Sepals ovate, (hit' r petaU villons, ovate-lanceolate ; inner rather 

 shorter and narrower, glabrous, red. (\ir]>elx 1 in. diam., mucnmate ; stalk |-A in. 

 Very near M. inaiiniriatnnt, but \\iih usually larger, more obtuse leaves, more lateral 

 flowers, and more globose hhorter-stalkud fruit. 



8. BI. Maing-ayii, //. / <C* T. ; branchlets pubescent, leaves broad- 

 elliptic or oblong rounded at both ends or tip apiculate glabrous above 

 glaucous and finely pubescent beneath, flowers l.\ in. solitary, calyx orbi- 

 cular, carpels oblong straight-beaked. 



PEN A NO, Maingay. 



A scamlent shrub; branches black. L< arcs 3-5 by \\- < l in., hard, coriaceous, red- 

 brown when dry, opaque above with a slender downy midrib, nerves many, much 

 diverging, slender ; petiole J- in. floiGGrt axillary, cernnous, appressed, brown- 

 pubescent ; buds with a swollen base ^ in. iliam. and trigonous curved beak; pedicel 

 -.J-i in., stout, curved ; bract small, broad, half-amplexicaul. Calyx a disk, ^ in. diam. 

 Outer petals flat b'it keeled down the middle inside, compressed 3-gonous ; base exca- 

 vated; inner very small, triangular-ovate, glabrous. IStainens very many, small, trun- 

 cate. Torus conical, low, top depressed. Ovaries about 6, silky ; stigma subsessile. 

 Carpels 14-2 by | in., rusty puberulous, walls thick ; stalk 4 in., stout, straight. Seeds 

 Jin., many, 2-seriate, horizontal; testa shining, not margined. 



9. 1*1. cylindricum, Maingay mss. ; branches rusty pubescent, leaves 

 oblon- elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate acuminate glabrous above brown and 



