40 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
lower duller; main nerves 10 to 12 pairs, oblique, inter-arching boldly °25 in. from 
the edge; length of blade 8 to 14 in., breadth 8 to 5 in.; petiole *4 in., stout. Petals 
very fleshy, densely and minutely tomentose, unequal ; the outer 3 broadly elliptic, 
sub-acute or blunt, slightly concave, ‘75 in. long and *4 in. broad; inner 3 obovoid, 
spreading, but with incurved apices, slightly shorter than the outer. Peduneles (in fruit) 
nearly 3 in. long, stout. Torus hemispheric, 1 in, in diam. Lupe carpels numerous, 
glabrous, lenticellate, elliptic-obovoid; the apex mamumillate, narrowed at the base into 
a short stout pseudo-stalk nearly *5 in. long; length of ripe carpel about 1°5 in, 
diam. 1 in.; pericarp hard, about -1 in. thick. Seed solitary, narrowly ellipsoid, blunt, 
1'1 in. long and °6 in. in diam.; the testa pale, rugulose. A. macrophyllus, King mss. 
(not of Hook. fil.) - 
Perak, at Goping, elevation 500 to 800 feet,—King’s Collector No. 4477, Scortechina 
No. 1068. | 
Some specimens of this were unfortunately distributed from the Calcutta Herbarium 
under the mss. name of A. macrophyllus,—a name pre-occupied by an African species 
described by Sir J. D. Hooker (Niger Flora, 207), 
Puare 46, Artabotrys grandifolius, King. 1, Leaf; 2, fruiting branch; 3, section 
of ripe carpel; 4, seed; 5, dissected flower—of natural size. 
9. Arrasotrys Kurz, H. f. § T. in Hook, fil. Fl. Br. Ind. 1. 54. A low, bushy, 
erect shrub; young shoots adpressed-rufous-pubescent, slender, but thickened and flattened 
near the flowermg peduncles. Leaves membranous, obovate or oblanceolate-oblong, sub- 
acute or obtuse, the base acute; both surfaces glabrous, finely reticulate, the lower paler, 
and the nerves and midrib sparsely puberulous; main nerves 5 to 9 pairs, slender, 
spreading; length of blade 4 to 5°5 in., breadth 1-4 to 2°2 in.; petiole *15 in. Peduneles 
flat, puberulous, much hooked; pedicels 2 or 3 from each, slender, pubescent, °6 in. long, 
and, with several small rounded bracteoles near the base. Flowers about °75 in. long, 
drooping, yellowish. Sepals connate below the apices, acute, reflexed, rufous-pubescent. 
Petals coriaceous, oblong, oblanceolate above the basal. sac, obtuse; the margins revolute, 
densely adpressed-pilose. Anthers few, broad; slightly apiculate. Ovaries numerous, 
oblong. Young carpels narrowly obovoid, tapering much to the. base, densely but 
minutely pubescent. Ape carpels unknown. Kurz For. Fl. Burm. i. 31. . 
Burmah: along the Irrawaddy and up to nearly 5,000 feet,—Kurz, Gallatly. 
-Prare 47, ‘Artabotrys Kurzii, H. f § T. 1, Flowering branch; 3 & 2, flowering 
peduncles with young carpels; 4, peduncle with slightly older carpels—of natural size ; 
5 & 6, flower dissected; 7, stamens—enlarged. , 
2 3. ARTABOTRYS SCORTECHINIT, King in Journ. As.. Soc. Bengal 61, pt. 2, 32. 
A climber ; all parts, except the flower and possibly the fruit, glabrous; young branches 
slender, dark-coloured, Leaves thinly coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate, shortly acuminate, the 
base. cuneate ;| upper. surface. shining; the lower dull when young, 
aiterwards, glabrous ;.. main nerves 9. to -11 pairs, spreading, inter-arching °1 in. from 
the. edge, slender but rather, prominent beneath ; length of blade 2-25 to 3°25. in., 
pigs ae to 13 in,;. petiole -2. in.» Pedunele rather slender, 3- to 4-flowered; pedicels 
> in. long, thickened upwards, puberulous, with a small ovate bracteole at the very 
very minutely scaly, 
