114 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
Kurz For. Fl. Burm. i. 44; King an Journ. As. Soc. Bengal 61, pt. 2, 87.—OQOrophea 
reticulata, Mig. Ann. Mus. Ingd, Bat. i, 23.—Uvaria reticulata, Blume Fl. Jav. Anon. 
50, ¢. 24,.—Pseuduvaria reticulata, Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. 1. pt. 2, 30. 
Burmah: province Tenasserim,—Helfer, Malacca,—Muaingay (Kew Distrib.) No. 64. 
Perak,— Wray, King’s Collector, Scortechiné ;.not so common as M. macrophylla, Oliver. - 
This species has the inner petals rather larger than the outer and much vaulted ; 
and in that respect it conforms to the characters of Orophea; but its stamens are 
Uvarioid in character and they are numerous; its flowers, moreover, are unisexual. 
The characters of Mitrephora therefore preponderate, and it is better located in the 
latter venus. But there is no doubt it forms a connecting link between the two genera. 
Puare 156A. Mitrephora reticulata, H. 7. § Th. 1, Flowering branch; 2, ripe 
carpels ; 8, section of carpel—of natural size ; 4, female flower dissected; 5, male flower 
with inner petals removed; 6, section through torus of male flower to show the 
stamens; 7 & 8, anthers; 9, pistil—enlarged. 
6. MirrepHorRA MACROPHYLLA, Oliver in Hook. Ic. Plant., ¢. 1562. A small tree; 
young branches more or less puberulous, speedily becoming glabrous and cinereous. 
Leaves thinly coriaceous, elliptic-obovate or oblong-oblanceolate, acute or shortly acumi- 
nate, the base rounded, slightly oblique; both surfaces puberulous at first but speedily 
glabrous, shining, minutely reticulate; main nerves 14 to 20 pairs, oblique, inter-arching 
+15 in. from the margin, prominent beneath; length 7 to 13 in., breadth 1°75 to 4 in.; 
petiole *25 in., swollen. Flowers :25 to *3 in. in diam., axillary, usually im pairs, or in 
cymes 1 to 2 in. long, the cymes minutely pubescent; bracts few, lanceolate; pedicels 
long, with several broadly lanceolate partly deciduous bracteoles, or ebracteolate. Sepals 
free, or connate below, reniform, or broadly ovate, puberulous outside and on the edges, 
clabrous inside. Outer petals larger than the sepals, orbicular-ovoid, sub-acute, slightly 
narrowed at the base, puberulous on both surfaces, °15 in. long. Inner petals 3 in. 
long, thick, vaulted, reniform-sagittate, puberulous, with a glabrous callosity .on the 
inside near the base, the edges pubescent; the claw shorter than the limb, pubescent. 
Male flower: stamens very numerous, short, cuneate; the connective truncate, small and 
not concealing the tops of the anthers; pistils 3, or a few rudimentary. Female: flower: 
staminodes 11 two imperfect rows. Ovaries about 12, ovoid-cylindric, oblique, pubescent, 
4-ovuled; stigmas sessile, large, fleshy, truncate, often oblique. Ripe carpels globose, 
‘densely and minutely tawny-tomentose, *4 or °5 in. in diam.; stalks -2 in. long. 
Seeds several, compressed; the testa membranous. King in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal 61, 
pt. 2, 87. 
Penang,—Maingay (Kew Distrib.) No. 92-2, Curtis. Perak,—Scortechini, King’s 
Calecton; Wray. 6 ea ee 
_ This species, although rare in Penang, is very common in Perak. Specimens of it 
vary considerably in several respects. In some plants the young shoots are densely 
puberulous, in others they are almost glabrous; the leaves also vary in size and in 
amount of pubescence. In the specimen figured by Professor Oliver (Hook. te. Pi. 
1562), the flowers are in axillary pairs; but in the majority of the Perak specimens 
they ay m cymes. The species is practically dicecious; the staminate flowers having 
no ovaries at all or only a few rudiments, while the pistillate flowers have rarely a 
few perfect stamens, and not always any staminodes. The best marks. of distinction 
