128 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
Prats 170, Oxymitra biglandulosa, Schef. 1, Flowering branch; 2 & 3, flowers 
dissected; 4, ripe carpels with mammillate apices; 5, ripe carpels with blunt apices— 
of natural size; 6 & 7, anthers—enlarged. 
8. Oxymitra ciauca, A. f. & Th. Fl. Ind. 146; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 71. A 
slender woody climber; young branches slightly omen tone soon becoming glabrous. 
Leaves thinly coriaceous, elliptic, elliptic-lanceolate to lanceolate, obtuse, acute or sliortly 
acuminate; the base rounded, sometimes slightly narrowed; upper surface glabrous, 
the midrib and sometimes the nerves pubescent; the lower very pale, glaucous, 
glabrous or sparsely puberulous; the midrib pubescent; main nerves 8 to 12 pairs, 
spreading, prominent beneath; length 4 to 6 in., breadth 1°5 to 2 in’; petiole °2 
in., pubescent. Flowers solitary, extra-axillary, narrow and elongate; pedicels slender, 
‘+ in, long, with a median subulate bract, longer in fruit. Sepals connate at the 
base, broadly ovate, much acuminate, adpressed-pubescent, 25 in. long. Petals very 
unequal; the outer thickly coriaceous, linear-lanceolate, sub-acute, slightly expanded 
and sub-concave at the base, outside minutely pubescent; inside glabrous, the midrib 
prominent; inner petals with sub-orbicular bases (cleft in the middle) and long acuminate 
points, glabrous, only about one-fifth as long as the outer. Ovaries hairy; ovule 
solitary. Carpels many, ovoid, slightly apiculate, -4 in. long and ‘25 in. in diam., 
minutely tomentose; stalks slender, °75 in. long, Mg. Fl. Ind. Bat, 1. pt. 2, 50; 
King im Journ. As. Soc. Bengai 61, pi. 2, 100. 7 | 
Penang. Malacca,—Maingay (Kew Distrib) No. 68. Perak; common at.low eleva- 
tions. Distrib.—Sumatra,—Beecari No. 626. | 
Puate 171A, Oxymitra glauca, Tee & The le lowering branch; 2, ripe carpels; 
3, flower dissected; 4, sepals and andro-gyneeclum—of natural size; 5, anthers— 
enlarged. : 
9, Oxymirra unonaFouia, HM. f. & Th. Fl. Ind. -146. A woody, glabrous climber; 
the leaf-buds with adpressed golden pubescence. Leaves oblong, abruptly caudate-acumi- 
nate, the base rounded or sub-acute; upper surface shining, the lower very. glaucous ; 
lencth 5 to 7 in, breadth 2 to 3 in.; petiole 25 to °35 in. Flowers pedicelled, extra- 
axillary. Sepals persistent, broadly ovate, brown pubescent. Carpels 5 or 6, oblong, 
apiculate, ee dark brown; stalk ‘25 in. Hook. fi. BiBre Ind. 71s Kure for: 
Fl. Burm. i, 4; Mig. Fl, Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, 50.—Guatteria unonefolia, DC. he. Anon. 
41; Wall, Cat. 64385, | 
Burmah: at Tavoy (orietes Tentadettiay = Wallich. 
This has not been collected since Wallich’s time, and his specimens are very imper- 
fect. ‘The above description is entirely-made up from Sir Joseph Hooker (Ff. B. I. J. ¢.) 
Prare 169 Bis. Oxymitra unonefolia, HW: f. §& Th. 1, Branch with flower-bud’ and 
immature fruit; 2, ripe carpel; 3, section of ripe seed—of natural size. (Drawn from 
Wallich’s specimen Cat. No. 6485.) , | : : 
-Nore.—A specimen in Maingay’ s Hechasitiots (Kew Distrib. No.- 61) is spans a new ae 
of DMelodorum ; but as it is in fruit only, I cannot venture to describe it. : 
