44 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
10. Arrasotrys oporatissrmus, 2. Br. in Bot. Reg. 423. A shrub, often scandent; 
young branches puberulous, slender, dark-coloured.. Leaves thinly coriaceous, oblong- 
lanceolate, shortly acuminate, the base acute; both oe glabrous, shining, reticulate, 
pale when dry; main nerves 8 to 10 pairs, slender, spreading; length of blade 4 to 6 in, 
breadth 1:25 to 2 in.; petiole -1 to °25 m. Flowers yellow, solitary or in pairs, drooping, 
1:25 to 15 in. long; pedicels about °5 in. long, ebracteolate. Sepals connate below, 
acute, their apices reflexed. Petals lanceolate above the saccate base, minutely adpressed- 
sericeous. Ovaries few, glabrous. Ripe carpels 6 to 10, narrowly obovoid, glabrous, 1°25 
to 15 in. long, ‘9 in. in diam., yellow. Seeds oblong, slightly flattened, deeply grooved 
on one side, ‘75 in. long. Wall. Cat. 6415; W. & A. Prod. 10; He f. & VT. Fl Ind. 
128; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 54; Kurz For, Fl. Burm, i, 81; Benth, Fl. Hong-Kong 
10.—Unona uncinata, Dunal Anon. 105, 4 12 § 12a; D.C. Prod. 1, 90.—Uvaria 
odoratissima and uncata, Rorb. Fl. Ind. 1. 666. 
Peninsular India: in the southern parts and in Ceylon; much cultivated in India 
on account of the odour of its flowers and fruit. 
This species is, in my OpunD Ts truly wild only in Southern Peninsular India and in 
Ceylon. 
Sir Joseph Hooker has pointed out that the A. odoratissimus of Blume (Fi. Jav. 
Anon, 59, t. 28 & 31B) is not the plant so named by R. Brown. Unona hamata, Dunal 
Anon. 106, ¢ 27 (= Artabotrys hamatus, Bl. Fl. Jav. Anon. 60, ¢. 29 & 31), ought 
not, in my opinion, to be reduced to this. 
Prate 55. Artabotrys odoratissimus, R. Br. 1, Flowermg branch; 2, flower seen 
from above; 3, ripe carpels; 4, sections of ripe carpels; 5, seeds—of natural size; 
6, stamens; 7, ovary—enlarged. (Copied from Roxburgl’s original drawing in Calcutta 
Herbarium.) | 
11, Arrasorrys oxycarrus, King in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal 61, pt. 2, 84. A stout. 
climber 60 to 80 feet long; all parts, except the flowers, glabrous; young branches 
slender, black when dry. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, shortly acuminate, the base cuneate ; 
both surfaces shining, reticulate; main nerves 6 to 8 pairs, spreading, slender; length 
of blade 3 to 5°5 in, breadth 1:25 to 1:5 in. Peduneles short (‘75 in. long), glabrous, 
bearing about 2 aaiitel y bracteolate pedicels, °75 in. long. Flowers 1°5 to 1:75 in. long 
Sepals coriaceous, small, broadly ovate, acute, °2 in. long, conjoined at the base, spreading. 
Petals coriaceous, very much longer than the sepals, lanceolate, obtuse; the inner 3 
smaller; all adpressed-pubescent, and the saccate base small in all. Torus small, 
sericeous, Ovarics glabrous. Stipe carpels numerous, sessile, glabrous, narrowly elliptic, 
tapering to each end; the apex caudate, 1 to 12 in. long and ‘4 in. in diam.; pericarp 
thin. Seeds 2, plano-convex, compressed, blunt, *25 in. long. 
Perak,—King’s Collector Nos. 5150 and 5605, Wray No. 3286. 
This species comes near the Bornean A. polygynus, Miq. (Ann. Mus. Iugd. Bat. 
i. 4). But this species has more pointed and perfectly smooth ripe carpels; while 
those of A, polygynus are more ovoid, with shorter terminal point and have many 
vertical ridges, A. polygynus, moreover, is sub-strigosely pubescent: this is glabrous. 
Puate 56, Artabotrys uxycarpus, King. 1, Flowering branch; 2, flower, dissected; 
3, ripe fruit; 4, me natural size. 
