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20. Melodorum, Dunai. 
Climbing shrubs. lowers terminal, axillary and leaf-opposed, fascicled or panicled ; 
buds triquetrous. Sepals 3, small, valvate, connate below. Petals 6, yalvate, in two 
rows; outer plano-convex or trigonous; inner triquetrous above, hollowed below on the 
inner face. Stamens many; anther-cells dorsal, contiguous; top of connective more or 
less flattened, triangular, quadrate or orbicular. Pistils many, free; style oblong; 
ovules 2 or more. Stipe carpels berried. 
Distrib.—Species about 35. Tropical Asia and Africa; Australia. 
Sect. I.—MeEtoporum proper. Outer petals oblong-ovate. Ovaries hairy ; ovules 
usually more than 4, Seeds smooth (unknown in MM. Uitsewfolium), 
Flowers not more than °4 in. long (often ‘5 in. long in ML. fulgens); flower- 
buds broadly pyramidal. 
Flowers minute, cymose; leaves raat above, glaucous and minutely 
pubescent beneath ‘ 1. UL. rufinerve. 
Flowers ‘4 in. long in exPoniovel cymes ; lesa minty ube 
above, sparsely adpressed-pubescent beneath . : ~  « & M. polyanthum. 
’ Leaves glabrous (except the midrib) on the upper Miata: 
Flowers 35 in. long in leaf-opposed racemes; lower surface of 
leaves sparsely adpressed-pubescent . . 8. MM. Griffithii. 
_ Flowers ‘2 to *25 in. long in few-flowered, ine easy racemes ; 
leaves beneath eee with a superficial layer of 
flexuose hairs; ovules4 . . 4. DL litsewfolium. 
Flowers *4 to 5 in. long, anne or in Pe toteea Lonel or 
leaf-opposed cymes; leaves beneath sparsely and minutely 
strigose; ovules4 . ; : ; : : ‘ : . Oo ML fulgens. 
Flowers ‘5 in. or more in length (see also DM. fulgens). 
Flower-buds broadly pyramidal. 
Flowers solitary or in fascicles of 2 or 3; leaves glabrous above 
except the midrib, sparsely adpressed-pubescent beneath ; ripe 
- carpels ovoid, minutely Sema ot l-lin, long; their 
stalks 1:25 to 1:4 in. 6. M. Waillichii. 
Flowers solitary or2 or 3 in a raceme; jares phous ators 
except the midrib, beneath with sparsely adpressed flexuose hairs ; 
ripe carpels globose, 1 in. in diam.; their stalks only 25 to 35 in. 7. . bicolor. 
Flowers racemose, rarely solitary ; leaves glabrous-above except the 
midrib, beneath densely golden-brown sericeous; ripe carpels 
ovoid-globose, 1-25 in. long; their stalks 2to3in. long . +. 8. DL manubriatum. 
Flowers in leaf-opposed or terminal panicles; leaves much reticu- 
late and glabrous except the midrib above; beneath slightly 
pubescent, becoming glabrous when old ; ripe carpels sub-globose, 
(15 to2in.indiam., warted .  . . 9. MM. verrucosum. 
Flowers in axillary or terminal panicles ; eaves sindtely phibescent 
above, softly brown tomentose beneath ; ripe carpels globose to 
ovoid, be aes a 1. to 2:25 in. long; stalks *75 to 
P70 im} PR ee er . 10. UL. latrfohum. 
Ann. Roy. Bor. Garp. Caxcurra Vor, IY. 
