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Pistils б, erect, about 2 сш. long, surrounded by the urceolate subglobose somewhat 
fleshy dise which is at first dentate at the apex and finally irregularly torn; ovaries 
ovoid-oblong, convex dorsally, ventrally nearly straight, attenuated upwards, covered with 
coarse brown hairs; stigma induplicate, veined, recurved, undulate, papillose. along the 
edges, protruding from the dise. Follicles divergent, coriaceous, ovoid, tomentose. 
Flowers in June. 
Chumbi, near Tuk-chung (King’s collector 7). 
Paronia Moutan, sub-sp. atava differs from the typical Paeon'a Moutan chiefly in the number of 
petals, which in the garden form are usually very numerous. The leaflets are smaller than those of tke 
cultivated p'ant, but in this respect it stands between the latter and a variety from Japan. There 
appears to be no doubt about its growing wild in the Chumbi hills or of its being the ancestral 
form of the numerous garden varieties of Paeonia Moutan. From Paeonia Delavayi, Franchet, it is 
easily distinguished by the tomentose (not glabrous) carpels, and the ovate or ovate-oblong (not 
lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate) leaf-segments, which are not confluent. 
Рглте 126. Paeonia Moutan, DC., subsp. atava. 1, annual shoot in flower; 2, head of immature follicles, discal 
envelope not yet burst; 3, inner stamen; 4, outer stamen; 5, carpel; 6, inner surface of one-half of the stigma; 
7, hair from ovary, greatly magnified; 8, uuripe seed; 9, innermost sepal. 
PLATE 129. 
TETRACERA GRANDIS, King in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, for 1889, pt. 2, p. 363. 
Nat. Ord. Dilleniacew. 
A large tree. Young branches and inflorescence shortly velvety-tomentose. Leaves 
large, coriaceous, broadly elliptic, rarely slightly obovate, the apex truncate and 
minutely apiculate; the edges obscurely crenate or undulate toward the apex, entire 
below, recurved when dry; the base rounded or slightly narrowed: upper surface 
scabrous, lower minutely tomentose: nerves stout, 14 to 16 pairs, rather straight, erecto- 
patent; length of blade 8 to 11 in., width 5 to 6 in., petiole about "7 in., stout. 
Inflorescence in little-branched, lateral or terminal panicles a foot or more long. Flowers 
shortly pedunculate. Sepals 5, broadly ovate, sub-acute, concave, ribbed and tomentose 
externally, “5 in. long, Petals nearly as long as the sepals, but narrower, glabrous. 
Anthers with obcordate connective narrowed to the lung slender filaments. Follicles with 
a slender curved beak. 
Perak. Scortechini, No. 905. 
This species has as yet been collected only by the late Revd. Father Scortechini, whose specimens 
are moreover scanty, and none of them are in fruit. 
PrarE 129. Tetracera grandis, King. 1, leaf; 2, inflorescence: of natural size; 3, flower with the petals removed : 
slightly enlarged; 4, flower, dissected; 5, anther; 6, two pistils: much enlarged, 
PLATE 130. 
WORMIA MELIOSMEFOLIA, King in Journ. As, Soc. Bengal, for 1889, pt. 2, p. 365. 
Nat. Ord. Diileniucee. 
A small tree, the young parts and leaf-petioles softly fulvous-tomentose. Leaves 
crowded near the apices of the branches, coriaceous, obovate-lanceolate to obovate-elliptic, 
Ах». Roy. Вот, Garp. Carc, Vor. V. 
