78 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
Puate 100B. Polyalthia obliqua, H. f. §& Th. 1, Flowering branch—of natural size ; 
2, flower; 3, side view of a flower from which the petals have been removed; 4 & 5, 
anthers—enlarged. 
27, PoryaLTHia ABERRANS, Maing. ex Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 67. A large climber, 
glabrous except the flowers and fruit; young branches slender, black. eaves membranous, 
oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, the base slightly cuneate; both surfaces reticulate, glabrous, 
the lower glaucous; main nerves 14 to 18 pairs, very faint, the secondary nerves quite as 
well marked; length 3°5 to 5 in., breadth 1°4 to 1:8 in.; petiole *2 to :25 in. lowers 
‘5 to ‘75 in. in diam., solitary, axillary; pedicels slender, 1°25 in. long (longer in fruit), 
with one minute bracteole below the middle and another at the base. Sepals ovate-orbi- 
cular, sub-acute, quite connate into a 38-angled glabrous cup ‘25 in. in diam. Petals 
leathery, ovate-orbicular, sub-acute, spreading, concave; the outer row °35 in. long and 
‘3 in. broad, yellowish-pubescent on both surfaces except a glabrous patch near the base 
on the inner; inner petals half the size of the outer but more concave, hoary-puberulous 
outside, glabrescent inside. Stamens numerous; apical process of connective broad, discoid, 
depressed in the centre, quite concealing the long, linear, lateral anther-cells. Ovaries 
narrowly oblong, glabrous, 1 or 2-ovuled; style as long as the ovary, curved; stigma 
small. Ripe carpels ovoid, slightly apiculate, puberulous or glabrescent, °35 in. long and 
‘3 in. in diam.; stalks ‘7 to ‘8 in., slender, glabrous. Sceds solitary, rarely 2, ovoid, 
shining, smooth. King in Journ, As. Soc. Bengal 61, pt. 2, 63.—Melodorum glaucum, 
Scortechint uss. | 
In some carpels there are two seeds, such carpels being about twice as long as 
those with a single seed. Although referred by the late lamented Father Scortechini to 
the genus Melodorum, this is an undoubted Polyalthia in its stamens, in its 1- rarely 
2-ovuled ovaries, and in its carpels with usually solitary, ovoid seeds. In externals, save 
and except the much smaller size of the flowers, this much resembles the plant figured 
by Pierre under the name of Unona Mesnyi (Flore Forest. Coch.-Chine, t. 17), to which 
indeed Pierre reduces P. aberrans. 
Prate 109A. Polyalthia aberrans, Maing. 1, Branch with flowers and young fruit; 
2, flower dissected; 3, ripe carpels; 4, seeds—of natural size; 5, vertical section of a 
seed; 6, anthers; 7, pistil—en/arged. . 
28. Poryarrata Moonn, Thwaites’ Enum. Pl. Ceyl. 9. A shrub 8 to 10 feet high; 
young branches slender, lenticellate, slightly pubescent. Leaves sub-sessile, oblong-lanceo- 
late, acuminate, narrowed to the minutely cordate, slightly unequal base; upper surface 
glabrous, lower puberulous; main nerves about 10 pairs, sub-horizontal, faint, forming 
wide arches far from the margin; length 4 to 6 in., breadth -9 to 1:9 in.; petiole *5 to 
lin. Flowers axillary or leaf-opposed, solitary, pedicellate, red, *4 in. in diam.; pedicels 
slender, 1°25 to 1:5 in. long. Sepals spreading, semi-orbicuiar, acuminate, pubescent 
outside. Petals: the outer 3 broadly ovate-acuminate, their edges minutely ciliate; the 
3 inner larger, concave, very blunt. Ovaries hairy; the style clavate. Fruit ‘5 to °6 in. 
in diam. ; individual carpels -25 to °4 in. long, globose or oblong, shortly stalked, glabrous, 
reddish, 1- or 2-seeded. Bed. Ic. Pl. Ind. Or., t. 83; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 66. 
Ceylon: at Caltura and Reigam Corle,—TZhwaites. 
