46 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL ROTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
Prare 59. Artabotrys caudatus, Wall. 1, Flowering branch—of natural size ; 2, 
calyx and andro-gyneecium; 38, petal; 4 & 5, stamens, front and back view; 6, pistil; 
7, section of ovary—enlarged. (The drawings of the flower and its parts were made by 
Miss Smith from Wallich’s specimen—Cat. No. 6417.) 
15. Arrazorrys Graciiis, King in Journ. As, Soc. Bengal 61, pt. 2, 35. A slender 
woody climber, 60 to 80 feet long; young branches dark-coloured; all parts except the 
petals quite glabrous. Leaves thinly coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate, shortly acuminate, the 
base cuneate; both surfaces glabrous and shining, the upper when dry tinged with green; 
main nerves 7 or 8 pairs, spreading, inter-arching inside the edge, very faint on both 
surfaces, reticulations rather distinct; length of blade 2°5 to 3 in., breadth 1 to 1°75 in.; 
petiole -15 to -2 in. Peduncles extra-axillary, short, much hooked, glabrous, usually 
4- to 6-flowered; pedicels °35 in. long, thickened upwards, ebracteolate, glabrous; flower 
*3 to ‘4 in. long. Sepals very coriaceous, semi-orbicular, slightly pointed at the apex, 
very little conjomed at the base, concave, spreading. Petals fleshy, sub-equal, curved, 
spreading, densely tomentose, the outer 3 flattened; the inner obtusely 3-angled, tumid at 
the base, smaller than the 3 outer. Anthers with broad apical connectival processes. 
Ovaries 3 or 4, oblong, with large discoid lobed stigmas. Torus villous. Ripe carpels 3 
or 4, sessile, obovoid, with several vertical ridges; the base contracted, glabrous, °8 in. 
long and ‘7 in. in diam. Seeds 2, compressed-ovoid, obtuse at each end, shining. 
Perak: at low elevations,—King’s Collector Nos. 3746, 4987 and 7543. 
Allied to A. suaveolens, Bl.; but with differently shaped petals, pistils, and carpels. 
Puate 60. Artabotrys gracilis, King. 1, Flowering branch; 2, unripe fruit; 3, ripe 
carpel; 4, seeds; 5, flower, dissected—of natural size; 6, flower without the petals; 
7, anthers; 8, ovaries and torus—enlarged. 
16. ARTABOTRYS SUAVEOLENS, Blume Fil. Jave Anon. 62, ¢t. 30, 31D. <A climber 20 
to 80 feet long; the petals always tomentose, the other parts mostly glabrous, but some- 
times the young branches, peduncles, and under-surfaces of the midribs of the leaves 
adpressed-puberulous. Leaves thinly coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, acute 
or shortly acuminate, the base acute; both surfaces shining, the reticulations rather 
distinct; the upper often deeply tinged with green when dry. Peduncles extra-axillary, 
thin at first, but becoming stout and flat with age, glabrous or puberulous, bearing from 
5 to 15 flowers; pedicels -3 to 45 in. long, thickened upwards, sparsely adpressed-pube- 
scent, with a small narrowly ovate bract at the base. lowers about ‘4 in. long. Sepals 
broadly ovate; the apex pointed, thinly coriaceous, sparsely adpressed-pubescent externally, 
very slightly conjoimed at the base, spreading, -1 in. long. Petals fleshy, adpressed- 
tomentose, dilated and thin at the base; the limb cylindric to clavate, sub-erect, slightly 
spreading, sometimes with the apex incurved. Anthers short, -with a very broad, 
oblique, flattened, apical appendage from the connective. Torus slightly pubescent. 
a i cee eh the stigma small. Ripe cargels few, ellipsoid; the 
ee se slightly contracted, smooth, glabrous, 4 to °5 in. long and *25 in. in 
diam. ; pericarp thin, fleshy. Seed single, ellipsoid, blunt 
ular. Wail. Cat. 6416; H. f. & T. Fl. Ind. 129; Hook. fi 
Ind, Bat. i. pt. 2, 39; Ann. Mus. Iugd. Bat. ii. 43; Kurz 
at each end; the testa gran- 
. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 55; Mig. Fi. 
Hor, Fl. Burm, i. 82; King in 
