ANONACEX OF BRITISH INDIA. ae 120 
surface; length 3°5 to 10 in., breadth 1:25 to 4:5 in.; petiole *3 in., tomentose. 
Flowers solitary, extra-axillary ; pedicels :25 to +4 in. Sepals slightly connate at the 
base, spreading, broadly ovate or orbicular-ovate, sub-acute, 3- to 7-nerved, adpressed- 
pubescent, *5 im. long and slightly narrower than the base of the petals, persistent in 
the fruit. Petals flat, very unequal; the outer thinly coriaceous, oblong-lanceo- 
late, sub-acute, the midrib thick and with several strong sub-parallel neryes, adpressed- 
pubescent on both surfaces, 15 to 1:75 in, long and *4 to °6 in. broad; inner petals 
thickly coriaceous, ovate, sub-acute, *5 in. long, pubescent outside, glabrous inside, 
Kipe carpels cylindric, blunt at each end, pubescent, *5 to °8 in. long and *3 in. in 
diam.; stalks pubescent, *2 in. long. Seed solitary. King in Journ. As, Soc. Bengal 61, 
pt, 2, 98. 
Malacca,—Maingay (Kew Distrib.) No. 59. Perak,—King’s Collector, Scortechini. 
Distrib.—Siam. 
Prare 166A. Oxymitra affinis, H. f. §& Th. 1, Branch with flower and young 
fruit; 2, mpe fruit; 3, flower—of natural size; 4, outer petal; 5 to 7, inner petals 
detached; 8, sepals me andro-gyncecium; 9, anthers—enlarged. 
3. Oxymirra Fiuipes, H. f. §& Th. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 71. A climber; young branches 
softly brown-tomentose, dark-coloured, and lenticellate when old. Leaves membranous, 
oblong-lanceolate or oblong-elliptic, often slightly obovate, acute or shortly acuminate, 
slightly narrowed to the sub-cordate, sometimes slightly oblique, base; upper surface 
glabrous, minutely scaly, sometimes pubescent, the midrib and nerves always so; under- 
surface paler, sub-glaucous, pubescent, the midrib tomentose; main nerves 12 to 14 pairs, 
spreading, prominent beneath; secondary nerves obliquely transverse, prominent; length 
4:5 to 75 im, breadth 1-4 to 2°5 in.; petiole ‘2 to *25 in., tomentose. lowers very 
long and narrow, often curved, 1°75 to 2:5 in. long, solitary on slender extra-axillary 
pedicels 3 or 4 in. long, which are pubescent and have a subulate bract near the middle. 
Sepals °25 in. long, spreading, ovate, acute, pubescent. Petals very unequal; the outer 
fleshy, very narrow, triquetrous, expanded and concave at the base, pubescent ; the 
inner less than one-fifth of the outer in len¢th, lanceolate with caudate-acuminate apex, 
glabrous. Stamens numerous; ovaries l-ovuled. Ripe carpels numerous, ovate-cylindric, 
shortly apiculate, softly pubescent, °5 in. long and °25 in. in diam.; stalks ‘3 in. long, 
pubescent. Seed solitary, pale. King in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal 61, ‘pt. 2, 99. 
A species readily distinguished in this genus by the extreme length and narrowness 
of the outer petals. Evidently closely allied to 0. cuneiformis, Mig. (Polyalthia cuneiformis, 
Bl. Fl. Javee Anon. 75, t. 35, 36D, 37), which it UD in that respect as also in 
its filiform, elongated pedicels. 
Malacca,—Maingay (Kew Distrib.) No. 60. Perak,—King’s Collector. 
‘Prare 167, Oxymitra filipes, H. 7. & Th. 1, Flowering branch; 2, ripe carpels ; 
| 3, flower with the outer petals removed; 4, 5 & 6, outer petals; 7, inner petals—of 
natural size; 8, sepals and andro-gynecium; 9 & 10, anthers srt, pistil—enlarged. 
4, OxymiTra caLycina, King in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal 61, pi. 2, 99. A slender, 
woody creeper; young branches densely. rusty-tomentose. Leaves coriaceous, oblong and 
sub-acute or cuneiform-oblong, very blunt or even emarginate, always slightly narrowed 
