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PraTE 171B. Melodorum rufinerve, H. fi. §& Th. 1, Flowering branch—of natural 
size; 2, flower-bud with its peduncle and bracteole; 3, the same with sepals and an 
outer petal removed; 4, section of the same to show andro-gynccium—enlarged. 
2. Me.oporum potyantHuM, Hook, fil. §& Thoms. Fl. Ind. 121. <A large climber: 
young branches glabrous, dark-coloured. Leaves thinly coriaceous, oblong or oblong- 
lanceolate (broadly elliptic in var.), acute or shortly acuminate, the base rounded or 
sub-cuneate; upper surface minutely pubescent, the midrib rather coarsely so; lower 
surface paler, sparsely adpressed-pubescent; main nerves 16 to 18 pairs, oblique, curv- 
ing very slightly and not inter-arching (26 pairs spreading and inter-arching in var.); 
length 8:5 to 7 in. (7 to 10-in. in var.), breadth 15 to 2°1 in. (3°75 to 5:25 in. in 
var.); pétiole °3 in. (‘5 or °6 in, in var.) lowers small (‘4 in. long), in leaf-opposed 
cymes of 4 to 83 pedicels *15 in., with a bract about the middle and a smaller at 
the base. Sepals broadly ovate, sub-acute, connate at the base, spreading, pubescent 
outside, puberulous within, *15 in. long. Petals leathery, oblong, widened and concave 
at the base, sub-obtuse at the apex; the outer adpressed-cinereous-pubescent outside, 
glabrous inside, °3 to °4 in. long; the inter smaller, thicker, glabrous except the upper 
third outside. Stamens numerous, with short thick filaments. Anthers linear, lateral; 
apical appendage of connective short, bluntly conical, Ovaries short, oblong, oblique, 
curved, coarsely pubescent ; style as long as the ovary, hairy. Carpels Given Took. 
ji. Fl. Br. Ind, i. 81.—Uvaria polyantha, Wall. Cat. 6467. . 
Khasia Hills and Shae Assam, and Chittagong Hills. 
Var. eliiptica. uceves broadly elliptic, 7 to 10 in. long and 3°75 to 5°25 in. 
broad ; pale > or ‘ban. : 
Chittagong Hill Tracts,—Lister, Gamble. 
This species agrees with J. Wallichii, H. f. & Th., in having short filaments to its 
stamens; but the flowers of this are more numerous and smaller and its leaves rather 
larger, * 
Prate 172A. Melodorum polyanthum, H. f. & Th. -1, Flowering branch—of natural 
size; 2, flower diebteds 3. & 4, us 5 & 6, pistils—enlarged. — | : 
3. Mertoporum Grirriran, Hook. fil § Thoms. Fl. Ind. 120. A climber; young 
branches slender, rusty-tomentose, - speedily, glabrous, dark grey, lenticellate. ‘ Leaves 
oblong-lancéolate to ovate-lanceolate, acute or obtuse, the base rounded or ‘slightly 
narrowed; upper surface glabrous except the slightly puberulous midrib; under-surface 
sparsely adpressed-pubéscent; main nerves 7+ to 10 pairs, ascending, curving, rather 
prominent beneath; length 3 to 5 in., breadth .1:25 to 1°75 in.; petiole °25 in. - Flowers 
“35 im; long, an feet O ered short leaf-opposed racemes ; pedicels about °2 in. long, 
rusty tomentose ; the bracteole drbicular, - median, . Sepals orbicular, pointed, -rasty- 
pubescent outside, glabrous and slightly granular within like the outer petals. Petals 
leathery, ovate-oblong, obtuse; the outer about *35 in. long; the immer smaller and 
more concave at the ‘tad glabfous and’ granular except a patch along the midrib in 
its upper half outside. Stamens numerous; the apical ‘process of the connective large, 
glabrous, triangular. UIs obliquely ‘ovoid, densely sericeous, with 8 to 10 ovules 
Ann. Roy Bor. Garp. Carcurra Vou. IV. 
