AN0NAGE2E. 



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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 Oxjjmitra, 

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

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

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

 and shrubs from tropical Asia and the neighbouring parts of the 

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



Orophaa corymbosa. 



Fig. 288. 

 DiaEjraui. 



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 Orojj/icsa' consists of natives of the same countries as- 



^ Hence there are species that in the structure 

 of the corolla come very near the Phaanthea;, 

 as do several species of Mitrephora, and curtain 

 Asiatic Popotvias. The outer petals are usually 

 obtuse and spreading ; the innnr 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 floral 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. 



^ Hook. &Tuoms,, Fl. Lid., i. 112.— Hassk., 

 Relzia, i. IIG.— Tuwait., Enum. PL ZeyL, 8.— 



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

 55 ; vii. 57. 



■* This occurs in Pseuduvaria MiQ., rightly 

 referred by Hentuam & Hooker to the genus 

 Mitrephora, of winch it lias the stamens, but by 

 MiQUEL finally included in Orophcea {Ann. Mm. 

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

 uvaria are quite those of Uoaria, and the 

 synonomy of the typical species must be thus 

 re-established : Mitrephora reticulata B. H. — 

 Uvaria reticulata Bl. {op. cit., t. 21). — Pseud- 

 uvaria reticulata MiQ. — Orophcea reticulata 

 MiQ. 



•'■' Bl., Bijdr., 18. — Endl., Oen., n. 1711.— 

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

 sonia, viii. 312. — Bocagea Bl., Fl. Jav., Ano- 

 nac, t. 40, 15 (nee Auclt.). 



