Orophea.] ANONACEAE. 23 



in two series on the ventral suture. Fruit a ring of subsessile or 

 stalked carpels. 



Leaves glabrous : 



Petals *25 in. long ; leaves obtuse : 



Leaves ovate ; carpels smooth 1. madraspatana. 



Leaves lanceolate ; carpels muricate 2 . sclerocarpa . 



Petals '5 in. long ; leaves caudate-acuminate 3. zeylanica. 



Leaves tomentose below ; flowers -5 in. long, reddish green ; carpels 

 tomentose, yellow 4. lutea. 



1. ALPHONSEA MADKASPATANA, Bedd. Ic. t. 92, and Fl. t. 76; 

 F. B. I. i. 89 ; King Ann. Calc. iv. 165, t. 214A. 



Forests of the E. Ghats, in ravines and by streams in 

 Vizagapatam, Cuddapah and N. Arcot, up to 3,000 ft. 



2. ALPHONSEA SCLEROCARPA, Thw. ; F. B. I. i. 89 ; King Ann. 

 Calc. iv. 166, t. 215A. 



Forests of the W. Ghiits, in Nilgiris, Malabar, Anamalais, 

 Pulneys and Tinnevelly, up to 2,000 ft. 



3. ALPHONSEA ZEYLANICA, Hook. f. & Thorns. ; F. B. I. i. 89 ; 

 Bedd. Ic. t. 90 ; King Ann. Calc. iv. 166, t. 214u. 



Evergreen forests of Travancore and Tinnevelly, at 2,000 

 to 3,000 ft. 



4. ALPHONSEA LUTEA, Hook. f. & Thorns. ; F. B. I. i. 89 ; Bedd. 



Ic. t. 91; King Ann. Calc. iv. 162, t. 209. Uvaria lutea, 



Roxb. Cor. PI. i. t. 36. 



Eastern slopes of Nilgiris below Coonoor, at 2,000 ft. 



16. Orophea, Blume. 



Small trees or shrubs. Flowers usually small, axillary, solitary, 

 fascicled or cymose. Sepals 3, valvate. Petals 6, valvate, in 

 2 whorls ; outer ovate ; inner clawed, usually cohering by their 

 margins into a mitriform cap, sometimes oblong and slightly 

 approximate below the middle, the apices divergent, not vaulted, 

 rarely without claws and very rarely slightly imbricate. Stamens 

 definite, 6-12, ovoid, fleshy ; anther-cells dorsal, large, contiguous, 

 not concealed by the connective, which is sometimes prolonged 

 into a conical apical point, not truncate. Staminodes or 3-6. 

 Ovaries 3-15 ; style short or 0; ovules 4. Fruit a ring of 1- or 

 more- seeded, globular or oblong (rarely very long) carpels. 



