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glabrous and partly covered with minute white hair. Anthers compressed, with oblong 
obliquely truncate, flattened heads. Ovaries few, oblong, glabrous; the stigmas broad, 
oblique. Frat unknown. 
Perak,—King’s Collector No. 6524. 
Prate 52, Artabotrys oblongus, Kiny. 1, Flowering branch; 2, flower; 3, flower. 
dissected; 4, petals turned with apex joumvaide i? natural size; 5, flower, with petals 
removed; 6, anthers; 7, ovaries—enlarged. 
8. ArrapoTrys Zeyuanicus, H. f. § 7. Fl. Ind. 128. A strong climber; young 
branches rather stout, at first puberulous, speedily becoming glabrous and dark-coloured. 
Leaves coriaceous, rather broadly lanceolate or oblanceolate, rarely sub-obovate, elliptic, 
sub-acute or obtusely acuminate, the base acute; both surfaces quite glabrous; the upper 
shining, pale green (when dry), the lower dull and brown; main nerves 8 to 11 pairs, 
oblique, rather straight, famt on both surfaces; length of blade 3°5 to 5 in., breadth 1°4 
to 2, rarely 2°25 in. Peduneles flattened, much hooked, each bearing 1 to 4 (usually 
1-flowered) pedicels. Flowers 1:25 to 1:75 in. long; ‘pedicels densely rusty-tomentose 
with numerous small rounded or ovate rusty bracts near the base. Sepals broadly 
ovate-triangular, acute, spreading, conjoined below, rufous-tomentose externally.  Petais 
coriaceous (above the basal sac), oblong-lanceolate, acute; the inner 8 rather smaller, 
brownish, densely tomentose. Anthers sessile, broad, truncate. Ovaries glabrous or villous 
(jide Beddome). Ripe carpels broadly ovoid, mucronate, harshly tomentose, rugulose. 
Thwaites’ Enum. Pl. Ceyl. 9; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 54. 
Forests of Malabar and Canara ; Central and Southern Ceylon. 
Pirate 53. Artabotrys Zeylanicus, H. f. § Th. 1, Flowering and fruiting branch; 
2, 3, & 4, flowers from different points of view; 5 & 6, petals; 7, calyx and andro- 
gynoeecium; 8, ripe carpel; 9, seeds—of natural size; 10, anther; 11 & 12, ovaries; 13, 
section of ovary—enlarged. (Copied from a drawing in the Herbarium of the Royal Botanical 
Garden, Peradeniya, and printed by permission of the Director, Dr. H. Trimen, F.x.s.) 
9. Anrrasorrys Lowranus, 2. sp., Scortechini uss, A stout climber; all parts, except 
the flowers glabrous; young branches slender, dark-coloured. . Leaves thinly coriaceous, 
oblong-lanceolate, shortly caudate-acuminate, the base cuneate; both surfaces shining, 
minutely reticulate; main nerves 8 to 10 pairs, spreading, inter-arching °2 in. from the 
margin, faint; length of blade 3:5 to 6 in., breadth 1:25 to 1°75 in.; petiole °25 in. 
Peduncles extra-axillary, 2- to 3-flowered, glabrous; pedicels thickened upwards, ‘5 to °75 
in. long, glabrous. Sepals triangular, acute, glabrous, ‘25 in. long, enlarging a little 
with the fruit. Petals fleshy, adpressed-puberulous, elliptic-lanceolate above the concave 
base, obtuse; the outer three 1°75 in. long, the inner three smaller. Anthers with a 
rounded Pal process from the connective. Ovaries many, glabrous. Carpels (quite 
young) sessile, ovoid, apiculate; ripe carpels unknown. ing in Journ, As. Soc. Bengal 
61, pi. 2, 34. 
Perak,—Scortechint No. 2012. 
This species is near A. pleurogynus, Miq., but is perfectly minbrous, not ao See : 
its ripe fruit is unknown. . 
Prats 54. Artabotrys Lowianus, Scort. i Flowering branch ; 2, flower, ‘ancien: 
3, young carpels—of natural size. | 
Ann. Roy. Bor. Garp. Catcurra Vor. IV. 
