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6. Oxymirra Mactettanpn, H. 7. &.Th. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 70. An erect shrub, about 
4 feet high; young branches rusty-adpressed-tomentose; the older glabrous, dark-coloured, 
furrowed. as thickly membranous, oblong-elliptic or oblong-lanceolate, acute, the base 
rounded; upper surface shining, glabrous, minutely scaly, the midrib and nerves pubes- 
cent ; andes surface minutely adpressed-pubescent, purplish, glaucescent; the main nerves 
13 to 18. pairs, ascending, curving, prominent as are the obliquely transy erse straight 
secondary nerves and the reticulations; length 7 to 10 in., breadth 2:25 to 3 in; petiole 
‘3 in, Flowers solitary, extra-axillary, pedicels 2 in, fameneat ebracteate. Sepals very 
short, connate, ovate-lanceolate, sub-acute. Petals coriaceous, shehtly concave in the 
lower half, yellowish, adpressed-pubescent; the outer lanceolate- “oblong; obtuse, 1:5 in. 
Jong; the inner half as long, broadly ovate, sub-acute. Ovaries oblong, strigose; 
style oblong. Fru unknown. Kurz For, Fl. Burm. i. 40. 
Burmah : not unfrequent in shady forests at low elevations,—Maclelland, Kurz. 
Var. stenopetala, King. Leaves narrowly oblong-lanceolate, tapering to either 
end; petals all with ovate bases, tapering into long’ very narrow limbs; 
the outer 2 in. long and only ‘15 in. in diam.; the inner shorter. 
Oxymitra stenopetala, H. f. & Th. Fl Br. Ind. i. 71; Kurz For. Fl. 
— Burm. i. 40. 
Burma: Martaban,— Falconer ; Tenasserim—Gallatly. 
PiaTe. 169. Oxymitra- Maclellandii, H.. f. §&° 7h. 1, Flowering branch—of natural 
size; 2, flower—dissected ; 3 & 4, stamens, front and back view; 4, pistil—endarged. 
7 OXyYMITRA BIGLANDULOSA, Scheffer im Nat. Tijdsch. Ned. Ind. xxxi. 341. A 
creeper 50 to 100 feet long; young branches minutely rufous-sericeous, afterwards 
dark-coloured and glabrous. eaves coriaceous, elliptic to elliptic-oblong, acute or 
shortly acuminate, the edges slightly recurved when dry, the base rounded or ‘slightly 
cuneate; upper surface glabrous, the midrib puberulous; the lower paler, sub-glaucous, 
puberulous or glabrescent; main nerves 7 to 9 pairs, ascending, Fe beneath ; 
length 8°5 to 7:5 in., breadth 2 to 35 in.; petiole -2 to ‘4 in. lowers shortly 
pedicelled, solitary, extra-axillary, 1 to, 1:15 in. long; pedicels -4 in. long (elongat- 
ing in fruit), angled, slender, with 1 subulate bracteole, Sepals fleshy, ovate, much 
acuminate, spreading or reflexed, adpressed, rusty-puberulous, Petals fleshy, yellow, 
very unequal, the outer lanceolate-oblong, obtuse, expanded and concave in the lower 
third, rusty-adpressed pubescent; the midrib prominent, sub-glabrous inside; the inner 
only as large as the sepals, with broad bases, (cleft in the middle) and long acumi- 
nate points. Ripe carpels oblong-ovoid, blunt at each end or slightly apiculate at 
the apex, yellow when ripe, puberulous or glabrous, °75 in. long; stalks -o in. King 
in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal 61, pt. 2, -100.—Polyalthia biglandulosa, Hook, fil. Fl. Br. Ind. 
i. 65.—Guatteria biglandulosa, Blume Fl. Jave Anon. 102, ¢. 51; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. 
i, pt. 2, 48; Hook. fil. & Thoms. Fl, Ind. 143. 
Malacca,—Grifith, Maingay (Kew. Distrib.) No. 49. Selangor,—fidley. Perak,— 
King’s Collector, Distrib—Malayan Archipelago. | 
The structure of the flowers of this species appears to me to be that of an 
Oxymitra rather than of a Polyalthia or Guatteria, and therefore I have transferred it 
to this genus. 
