106 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CATCULTA: 
3-flowered, pubescent; bracts several, subulate, hairy. Flowers about °35 in. long, green- 
ish-white. Sepals minute, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, densely pubescent outside. Outer 
petals thin, ovate-cordate, acuminate, pubescent; the inner larger, trapezioid, with long 
narrow claw, glabrous, with pubescent margins. Stamens 6, m-one row. Ovaries about 
6, pubescent, 2-ovuled. Ripe carpels oblong, sub-sessile, acuminate, minutely adpressed- 
pubescent, 1-4 to 1:75 in. long. Seeds usually solitary, sometimes ‘2 in. long, narrowly 
cylindric. Kurz For. Fl, Burm. i, 49; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, 29; King in Journ. 
As. Soc. Bengal 61, pt. 2, 81.—Orophea acuminata, A. DC. in Mem. Soc. Genev, v. 
39; Hook. fil. & Thoms. Fl. Ind. 112; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 915; Wall. Cat. 
6432.—Bocagea hexandra, Blume £1. Jav. Anon. 83, t. 40. 
Burmah: province Tenasserim,—Wallich. Great Coco Island,—urz. §. Andaman,— 
Kings Collectors. Distrib.—Java. | 
Pierre (Flore Forestiere Cochin-China, t. 44) figures a species called 0. Thorelii, which, 
as he remarks, must be closely allied to this. 
Puare 147B. Orophea hexandra, Blume. 1, Flowering and fruiting branch; 2, ripe 
carpel from another specimen—of natural size; 3, side view of flower in natural position ; 
4, flower inverted; 5, flower with the inner petals removed; 6, mner petals—enlarged ; 
7, sepals and ovaries; 8 & 9, anthers; 10, pistils—much enlarged. 
10. OropHEA ENTEROCARPA, Maingay ex Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 92. A small 
tree 15 to 30 feet high; all parts, except the inflorescence, glabrous; young branches 
slender, black, striate. Leaves membranous, ovate or sometimes obovate-lanceolate to 
elliptic, acuminate (sometimes abruptly so); the base rounded, sometimes sub-cuneate ; 
both surfaces shining; main nerves 6 or 7 pairs, spreading, slender; length 2°5 to 5 in., 
breadth 1°2 to 2 in.; petiole ‘1 in. Flowers nodding, solitary, extra-axillary; the pedicels 
very slender, ‘75 to 1°25 in. long, glabrous below, pubescent above, and with several 
ovate-lanceolate bracteoles. Sepals small, broadly ovate, acuminate, pubescent. Outer 
petals much larger than the sepals, ovate, acuminate, puberulous; the inner a little longer 
(6 to ‘75 in. long); the limb elongated-trapezioid, puberulous; the claw narrow and 
glabrous, yellowish with a reddish band; staminodes 6. Stamens 6, with broad 
connective, not apiculate. Ovaries 6, cylindric, glabrous, 2- to 7-ovuled’; stigma small, 
sessile. Carpels 4 to 6, elongate-cylindric, glabrous, moniliform when dry, 3 to 5 in. 
long and °3 in. in diam. Seeds 2 to 7, linear-oblong. King in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal 
Gly pt, 2, 82. : 
Malacca,—Maingay (Kew Distrib.) No. 88. Perak,—WScortechini, King’s Collector. 
PuraTe 148A. Orophea enterocarpa, Maing. 1, Flowering branch; 2, ripe carpels—of 
natural size; 3, sepals, staminodes, anthers and pistils; 4, outer petal; 5, inner petal; 
6 & 7, anthers; 8, pistil—en/arged. 3 
11. ORopHEA MACULATA, Scortechini ss. A shrub or small tree; young branches 
slender, rusty-tomentose at first, afterwards glabrous, black and striate. Leaves mem- 
branous, elliptic-oblanceolate, caudate-acuminate, narrowed from below the middle to 
the rounded or sub-cuneate, slightly unequal, base; upper surface glabrous, the lower 
glabrescent, the midrib and nerves pubescent; main nerves 10 to 12 pairs, spreading 
rather faint ; length 3°25 to 7 im; breadth 15 to 2-25 in., tomentose. Reba 
