90 iv. ANONACE2E. (Hook. f. & Thorns.) [AlpJionsea. 



By streams in MAISOR and the CARNATIC, Beddome. 



An umbrageous tree. Leaves 34 by 14 in., much reticulated beneath ; petioles in., 

 glabrous or puberulous. Flowers 1-6, bright yellow ; peduncles very short ; pedicels 

 $-4 in., puberulous ; bracteole infra-median. Sepals small, ovate. Petak tf in., puberu- 

 lous outside. Stamens 12, 2-seriate. Ovaries 3-4; style subglobose, slightly curved ; 

 ovules about 8 ; 2 -seriate. Carpels yellow-tomentose. 



6. A. IWTaing-ayi, H./.& T. ; leaves elliptic-oblong or lanceolate ob- 

 tusely or subacutely acuminate shining above reticulate ami pul 

 beneath, flowers solitary or in loose supra-axillary racemes, ripe carpels 

 very short-stalked toinentose. 



MALACCA, Maingay. 



A middle sized or lofty tree ; branches black, young rusty-tomentose. Leave 3-7 

 by 14-24 in., base acute or rounded, hard, coriaceous, pale yellow-brown, rusty beneath, 

 petiole -| in., rusty. Flowers f in. diam. ; peduncles i^-H in. and very short pe- 

 dicels rusty-tomentose; bracts small. &'i>ah ^ in. (>,it,_r jittul* ovate, recurved, 

 pubescent outside; inner similar but rather smaller. . _;led. Fi'< 



broad short fleshy ; anther cells small, diverging below, ,Sf >jma sessile ; ovules about 

 20. Carpel* 2 by 1 in., obtuse, smooth. Seeds many, smooth. 



7. A. elliptica, //./.< T. ; leaves elliptic or elliptic-ovate acuminate 

 shining above glabrous reticulate, nerves very slender, llowers solitary or in 

 2-3-flowered racemes, peduncle short multibracteate. 



MALACCA, Maingay. 



A tree'?; branches rugose, quite glabrous. Leaves 3-5 by l|-lf in., tip acute or 

 obtuse, base acute, thin, coriaceous, nearly concolorous, nerves about 5 on a side, 

 venulfs retieulate on both KI: tiole ^-\ in. FlotO0r 5 in. diam. ; peduncles 



very short, bracts many short orbicular per>istent ; pedicels ^-^ in., slender, curved, 

 bracteoles minute, median. 1'ttiil* appresaed-pobeMent ; outer broad-ovate, revolute ; 

 inner rather smaller, titmit' .- imbricate in several series, apiculate; anther-cells 

 oblong. Ovaries linear-oblong, silky ; stigma subseshile ; ovules many, 2-scriatc. 



OROPHEA, Blume. 



Trees or shrubs. Flowers usually small, axillary solitary, fascicled or 

 cvniose. Se^i/s :j, valvate. J't-fn/* G, valvate in i' .scries ; outer ovate ; inner 

 clawed, cohering by their margins into a mitritorm cap. titumntx ddinite, 

 6-12, ovoid, fleshy; anther-cells dorsal, large, contiguous. Ovaries 3-15; 

 style short or 0; ovules 4 /?//> *//// /.v 1- or more-seeded (very long in 

 (). t-iif- r<'irpa}. DlSTRIB. Species about Hi ; all Kastern Asiatic. Interme- 

 diate between Mitrephora and having the perianth of the former 

 and stamens of the latter. 



1. O. uniflora, //. /. & T. Fl. Ind. Ill ; leaves elliptic-oblong or lan- 

 ceolate obtusely acuminate glabrous, peduncles solitary axillary, stamens 12 

 2-seriate, carpels globose glabrous short-stalked. Btddoim Ic. PL Ind. (Jr. 

 t 69. 



Forests of TBAVANCOB at Courtalam, Wlyht. 



A shrub or small tree ; branches glabrous ; buds pubescent. Leaves 14~2$ hy f-1 in., 

 thin, coriaceous, base acute, pale beneath ; petiole fa in. Flowers solitary ; pedicels 

 |-i in., slender ; bracteoles several, minute, basal, and 1 median, tiepals minute, orbi- 

 cular, ciliate. Outer petals fa in., ovate or orbicular, membranous, glabrate ; inner .J, in., 

 trapezoid, tapering into the narrow claw. Ovaries 6 ; ovules 2. Carpels 4 iu. diam., 

 brown-black. 



2. O. zeylanica, //. f. & T. Fl. Ind. Ill ; leaves ovate or oblong 

 shortly and obtusely acuminate glabrous, peduncles solitary or fascicled 



