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nerves 5 or 6 pairs, very faint; length 2°25 to 3:25 in., breadth 1. to 1:5 in.; petiole 
l-l in. Peduneles extra- axillary, I to 2 in, long, 1-. to 3-flowered, slender, rufous- 
pubescent; pedicels varying in length, each with a small basal bracteole. Flowers about 
‘4 m. in diam., green. Sepals orbicular, obtuse or acute, veined, pubescent. — Guéer 
petals like the one but larger; iner petals +3 in. long, trapezioid, glabrous, with 
pubescent margins. Stamens 6 in a single row, their apices pointed. _ Ovaries about 12 
or 1d, obovate, glabrous, 2-ovuled; stigma oblong, sub-sessile. Carpels globose, about 
‘£ m. in diam., glabrous, smooth; their stalks +1 in. long, Hook. fil, Fl. Br. Jud. 
1. 91; Thwaites’ Enum. Pl. Ceyl. 8; Bedd. Ic. Pl. Ind. Ps bee Ws 
Western Peninsula: in Canara and Coorg. Ceylon: elev. 2,000 to 3,000 feet. 
Puate 146B. . Orophea zeylanica, A. f. ¢ Th. 1, Branch with flowers and nearly 
ripe fruit—of natural size; 2 & 3, flowers from above. and beneath; 4, side view of 
flower, the outer petals removed; 45, sepals, anthers, and pistils; 6, inner petal; 7, 
8 & 9, anthers; 10, pistil; 11, section of same—enlarged. (Nos. 5, 6, 10 § 11 are copied 
Jrom Beddome’s Icones Pl. en Or., t. 70. Zhe rest are copied from a drawing made in 
the Peradeniya Herbarium and kindly lent by Dr. H. Vrimen, F.r.s. ) 
8. OropHea Branpisi, Look. fil. § Thoms. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 91. A tree 20 to 25 feet 
high; young branches slender, softly tawny-tomentose at first, soon becoming glabrous, 
dark-coloured and striate. Leaves membranous, oblong-oblanceolate, much acuminate, 
narrowed from above the middle to the rounded or sub-cuneate, slightly unequal, base; 
upper surface glabrous, under-surface sparsely pubescent; the nerves and midribs densely 
softly tomentose; main nerves 10 to 18 pairs, oblique, distinct beneath; length 6 to lv 
in., breadth 1:75 to 8 in.; petiole °15 in., tomentose. Peduncles supra-axillary, slender, 
tomentose, *d to 1 in, long, 1- or 2-flowered; pedicels as. long as, or longer than, his 
peduncles, tomentose, and with 1 or 2 subulate bracteoles; the jrwers large. Sepals 
ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, softly pubescent outside. Outer petals 85 to *d in. long, 
much larger than the sepals, broadly ovate-acuminate, veined, pubescent on the outer 
and on the upper half of the inner surface. Inner petals about °8 in. long, trapeziform, 
pubescent, with a Jarge rounded glabrous callosity on the inner. surface ; th claw much 
larger than the limb, very narrow, pubescent. Stamens 6, slightly apiculate; anther- 
cells large, dorsal. Ovaries 4 to 6, densely villous, oblong, 1- to 2-ovuled; style oblong, 
short, glabrous. Ripe carpels sessile, narrowly oblong, densely pubescent, about 1 in. 
long and only 1°5 in. in diam, when ripe. Seed elongate, cylindric, Aurz For. Fi, 
Burns. 1, O0s,. . | 
Burmah Brandis, Kurz. , 
PLATE 147A, Orophea Brandisii, Hf. & T. 1, Flowering branch; 2, nearly ripe 
fruit of natural size; 8, flower dissected; 4 & 5, anthers; 6, pistil—endarged. 
9. OROPHEA .HEXANDRA, Blume Bir. 18. A small tree; young branches slender, 
minutely tomentose, soon becoming dark-coloured, glabrous and furrowed. Leaves thinly 
coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate to elliptic-oblong, rather abruptly acuminate, the base sub- 
cuneate or rounded; upper surface glabrous, shining; the lower reticulate, puberulous, 
the midrib pubescent; main nerves 7 to 9 pairs, oblique; length 45 to 6 in., breadth 
15 to 2°25 in.; petiole -2 in. Peduncles axillary or supra- -axillary, slender, 1- to 
Ann. Roy. Bor. Garp. Catcuttra Vor. IV. 
