132 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
in two rows; style short, glabrous; stigma slightly bifid. Carpels (immature) obliquely 
ovoid, blunt, densely and softly yellowish-tomentose; stalks longer than the carpel. 
Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 80; Kurz For. Fl. Burm, i, 43,—Fissistigma scandens, Griff. 
Nat. iv. 706. 
Burmah: Province Tenasserim, at Mergui,—Grifith. 
On this plant Griffith founded his genus Fissistigma; the division of the stigma is, 
however, very slightly marked in the only specimen I have seen. The plant is very 
badly represented in collections. As Sir Joseph Hooker points out (7. Br. Ind. i. 80), 
it must be very near Melodorum spheenocarpum (Uvaria sphenocarpa, Blume). In MM. 
verrucosa the stigma is very distinctly divided. 
~Puate 172B, Melodorum Griffithiu, H. f. ¢ Th. 1, Flowering branch; 2, unripe 
carpel; 3, flower dissected—of natural size; 4 & 5, anthers; 6, pistil; 7, section of 
pistil—enlarged. | 
4. Menoporum titse&roiium, King in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal 61, pt. 2, 1038. A 
powerful climber; young branches densely but minutely rusty-tomentose, afterwards tuber- 
culate and sub-glabrous. Leaves coriaceous, oblong-ovate to oblong, acute, the base rounded 
or slightly cuneate; upper surface greenish when dry, glabrous, shining, except the rufous- 
pubescent midrib; lower reticulate, uniformly hoary-pubescent, with a superficial layer of 
deciduous yellowish or reddish flexuose hairs; main nerves 8 to 10 pairs, oblique, curving, 
prominent beneath; length 2°75 to 4:25 m., breadth 1:35 to 1°6 in. Ficwers *2 to °25 in. 
long, in few-flowered, lax, axillary, rufous-tomentose racemes or in terminal panicles ; 
pedicels *25 to °35 in, long with a single small median bracteole. Sepals broadly ovate- 
acute, concave, connate at the base, spreading, °l in. long. Petals broadly ovate-oblong, 
acute, leathery; outer ‘3 in. long, slightly concave and glabrous at the base, otherwise 
puberulous inside, rufous-tomentose outside; the inner petals much smaller, hoary- 
puberulous, except the pitted glabrous concavity at the base inside. Stamens numerous; 
apical process of the connective broadly. and bluntly triangular; filaments short. Ovaries 
few, oblong, oblique, rufous-pubescent, 4-ovuled; stigma lateral, oblong. Ripe carpels 
unknown. | 
Perak,—King’s Coliector Nos. 4063 and 4986. 
The flowers of this resemble those of M. fulgens, H. f. & Th., but they are smaller 
and more numerous than those of M. fulyens; the petals of this species also are thinner 
and the apical process of the anthers is broader and blunter. The leaves too of this are 
broader, and in the indumentum on their lower surface they differ considerably from 
those of UM. fulgens, Fruit of this species is as yet unknown. The ovaries have only 
4 ovules. MM. glaucescens, Hance, resembles this in foliage. : | 
Prate 173. Melodorum litsezefolium, King. 1, Flowering branch; 2, flowers 
dissected—of nafural size; 3, stamens; 4, ppale enlarged: 
5. a FULGENS, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind, 120. A farce climber; young branches 
minutely tawny-pubescent, speedily becoming glabrous and dark-coloured. Leaves oblong- 
lanceolate, acuminate, the base rounded or sub-acute; upper surface pale olivaceous when 
dry, glabrous, the midrib strigose; under-surface brown when dry, sparsely and minutely 
strigose, especially on the midrib; main nerves 18 to 13 pairs, oblique, curving; length 3 
to 4°5 in., breadth 1:2 to 1:5 in.; petiole -25 to ‘4 in., pubescent. Flowers -4 to ‘5 in. long, 
