ANONACEA OF BRITISH INDIA. ; i HS 
in. in diam., sub-sessile. Sepals small, ovate, acute. Outer: petals broadly elliptic, acute, 
I to 1:25 m. long and from ‘6 to ‘8 in, broad, adpressed-pubescent outside, glabrous 
inside, white turning to yellow; inner petals smaller, cuneate, acute, clawed, white 
streaked with red, deciduous. Carpels globose or ovoid, with a prominent yertical 
furrow, ‘75 to 1 in. long, minutely tomentose. Seed solitary. 
S. Canara,—Beddome. | 
This species has been collected only by Colonel R. H. Beddome, from whom both 
description and figure are copied, _ 
Prats 155. Mitrephora grandiflora, Bedd. 1, Flowering branch; 2, 3 & 4, different 
views of the flower; 5 & 6, inner petals; 7, carpels nearly ripe—of natural size; 8, 
andro-gynecium; 9 & 10, anther; 11 & 12, pistils—enlarged. (Copied from Bedd. FI. 
Sylvat., t, Td.) 
4, MrirrepHora Heyneana, Thwaites’ Enum. Pl. Ceyl. 8. A small tree ; young branches 
slender, pale, minutely pubescent at first, but speedily glabrous. Leaves thinly but firmly 
coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate, the base rounded or very slightly cuneate ; both surfaces pale 
when dry (the upper shiming, the lower dull), much reticulate, glabrous, the younger 
leaves sparsely pubescent beneath; main nerves 6 or 7 pairs, very faint, inter-arching 
far from the margin; length 2 to 3 in., breadth °8 to 1°35 in.; petiole °15 to ‘2 in. 
Flowers 1 to 1:25 in. in diam., solitary or in leaf-opposed sub-racemose cymes; peduncles 
very short, the bracts minute, distichous; pedicels *25 in. long, with small bracteoles, 
Sepals minute, orbicular, puberulous outside. . Outer petals yellow, cuneate-lanceolate, 
acuminate, parallel-veined, puberulous on both surfaces; the imner trapezioid, acute, 
clawed, yellowish with red spots, pubescent, *4 in. long. Axthers numerous, with broad 
flat or concave heads. Ovaries 6 to 9, strigose, 2- to 4-ovuled; style short; stigma 
sub-capitate. Ripe carpels few, obovoid or sub-globose, narrowed to the base, densely and 
minutely tawny-pubescent when ripe, about *5 in. long. Beddome Lc. Pl. Ind. Or., t. 77; 
Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 77.—Ovophea Heyneana, H. f. §& 2. Fl. Ind, 110.—Uvaria 
Heyneana, Wall. Cat. 6483.—U. lutea, W. & A. Prodr. Fl. Pen. Ind. 8, 
Base of the Tinnivelly Hills in Southern India,—Wight, Beddome, Ceylon,—TZhwaites, 
Lrimen, es 
Prats 152B. Mitrephora Heyneana, Zhw. 1, Branch with flowers; 2, branch with 
ripe fruit; 3, flower, with all the outer petals but one removed so as to show inner 
petals. and andro-gyneecium—of natural size; 4, sepals and andro-gynceecium—enlarged ; 
5, section through the same; 6 & 7, anthers; 8, pistil; 9, section through ovary—much 
enlarged, 
5, Murrepora reticunata, Hook. fil. & Thoms. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 77. A tree 20 to 30 
feet high; young branches tawny-tomentose, ultimately glabrous and dark-coloured. 
Leaves narrowly oblong, often slightly obovate, acuminate, the base cuneate or rounded; 
both surfaces shining, reticulate, glabrous ; the midrib puberulous on the upper, sparsely 
‘setose on the lower, surface; main nerves 12 to 14 pairs, spreading, prominent, distinct 
beneath ; length 5 to 14 in., breadth 2 to 4:5 in.; petiole 25 im., swollen. vowers -2 
in diam., in. axillary,jsolitary, or in pairs, or in few-flowered puberulous cymes ; pedicels 
long, slender, with many lanceolate bracteoles. Flowers, as in M. macrophylia, moncecious. 
Ripe carpels ovoid, apiculate, rugose, hoary, ‘8 in. long and °65 in, in diam, Seeds 2. 
Ann. Roy. Bor. Garp. Caxncurra Vou. LV. 
