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Pirate 163B, Popowia Kurzii, King. 1, Flowering branch ; 2, asa up and 
of natural size; 3, flower dissected; 4, Rican me 
13. Popowra Hooxert, King in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal 61, pt. 2, 97. <A shrub; 
young branches dark-coloured, glabrous. Leaves thinly coriaceous, broadly lanceolate or 
oblanceolate, acute or acuminate, the base acute; both surfaces glabrous, the lower 
silvery, shining; main nerves about 7 pairs, spreading, ascending, curving, rather pro- 
minent beneath, evanescent at the tips; length 5°5 to 7 in., breadth 1:6 to 2-4 in, 
fiowers solitary or in fascicles of 2 or 3, from short extra-axillary woody tubercles, 
polygamous, minute; ‘the males as in Popowia Kurzii, but smaller; the females with 
many densely pubescent ovaries and a few imperfect stamens; bracts many, minute, 
strigose. Carpels many, ‘75 in. long, oblong, granulate, glabrous; stalk °35 in.” Guat- 
teria pallida, HZ. f. & Th. Fl. Ind. 148 (not of Blume).—Polyalthia argentea, Hovk. 
fil. & Thoms. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 67. 
Assam and Sylhet; in dense forests, —Hook. fit. § Thoms. Naga Hills,—Masters, 
Khasia Hills, Grifith. 
A species of which I have seen only imperfect specimens, The description given 
above of thé flowers is copied from Sir Joseph Hooker. In my opinion the plant is 
a Popowia rather than a Polyalthia, and to the former genus I have ventured to 
remove it, | 
PuaTe 165A. Popowia Hookeri, King. 1, Fruiting branch—of natural size; 2 carpel ; 
8, section of carpel—enlarged. — 
Doub Yul species, 
PopowiA PaRviroLia, Kurz in Journ. of Botany for 1875, p. 324. Of this I have 
seen only leaf specimens with a few detached fruits. It appears to have also had the 
mss. name PP, nitida given to it by Kurz, | 
19. Oxymitra, Blume. 
Ohisbing! ae Leaves parallel-nerved; nervules transverse, not forming intra- 
‘marginal loops. Flowers leaf-opposed or extra-axillary. Sepals 3, valvate, connate below. 
Petals 6, valvate, in two rows; outer large, long, flat or triquetrous and narrow, 
leathery, more or less spreading or connivent; inner much smaller, | ovate-lanceolate or 
oblong (long and narrow in. 0. jilives and O. glauca), conniving over the stamens and 
ovaries, Stamens many, linear-oblong or cuneate, truncate; anther-cells dorsal, remote 
(small and ovoid in 0. glauca). Ovaries oblong, strigose; style oblong or clavate, 
recurved; ovules 1-2, sub-basal, ascending. Ripe carpels 1-seeded, stalked. Distrib.— 
About 28° species, Asiatic: and African. _ 
A genus of which the flowers have .some roseabienes to those of Goniothalamus; but 
the-inner petals are not contracted into a claw as in Guniothalanus, and the calyx is 
smaller and | not persistent. 
Outer petals flat. 
Sepals dvate-Tnnodolate, déciinon 
s ° 1; 0. S ornica ta, 
Ae broadly ovate or orbicular-ovate, reretenis in the fruit sauce penal 
2. O. affinis. 
Ann. Roy. Bor. Garp, Garcons Vou. LY, 
