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sexual organs (fig. 287). The outer petals seem to be so much the 

 shorter in consequence, coming very near sepals in size, form, and 

 consistency.' The stamens and carpels are arranged, as in Oxymitra, 

 on a slightly convex receptacle ; but eacli ovary contains an indefinite 

 number of ovules in two vertical rows.' The stipitate berries each 

 contain one or several seeds. The genus Mitrepliora consists of trees 

 and shrubs from tropical Asia and the neighbouring parts of the 

 Indian Archipelago.^ Their leaves are rather thick, with the 



Orophaa cor 



secondary veins often parallel and prominent. The flowers are 

 axillary, terminal or lateral, solitary or in cymes, which may them- 

 selves be isolated or grouped into a cluster on a common axis. They 

 are sometimes diclinous.^ 



The genus OroplKBot consists of natives of the same countries as 



^ Hence there are species that in the stnicture 

 of the corolla come very near the Phceanthece, 

 as do several species of Mitrepliora, and certain 

 Asiatic Popoivias. The outer petals are usually 

 obtuse and spreading j the inner ones cohere by 

 the edges of their broad limbs, and often the 

 vault formed by their union falls on one side 

 owing to the bending of the long slender claws. 

 But often, too, their limbs finally separate from 

 one another, and the interior corolla presents a 

 true expansion. 



- The tloral receptacle is usually convex ; it 

 is however slightly hollowed out at the insertion 

 of the carpels, which it surrounds by a small 

 annular projection in certain Javanese species. 



3 lIooK. &TnoMs., Fl. Ind., i. 112.— Hassk., 

 Eetzia, i. 116.— Thwait., Enuvi. PI. Zeyl., 8.— 



ZoLL., Linncea, xxix. 315. — Walp., Ann., iv. 

 55 ; vii. 57. 



■* This occurs in Pseiiduvaria MiQ., rightly 

 referred by Bextuam & Hooker to the genus 

 Milrephora, of which it has the stamens, but by 

 MlQUEL finally included in Orophcea (Ann. Mas. 

 Luffd. Bat., ii. 22). But the stamens of Pseud- 

 uvaria are quite those of Ucaria, and the 

 synonomy of the typical species must be thus 

 re-established : Mitrephora reticulata B. H. — 

 Uvaria reticulata Bl. {op. cit., t. 24). — Pseud- 

 uvaria reticulata MiQ. — Orophaa reticulata 

 MiQ. 



5 Bl., Bijdr., 18.— Endl., Gen., n. 4711.— 

 B. H., Gen., 29, 958, n. 36.— H. Bn., Adan- 

 sonia, viii. 342. — Bocagea Bi.., Fl. Jav., Ana- 

 nac, t. 40, 45 (nee Auctt.). 



