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puberulous on both surfaces. Stamens numerous; the anther-cells linear, elongate ; 
apical process of connective narrowly triangular, pointed. Ovaries numerous, Aarowie 
oblong, adpressed-rufous-pubescent, 4-ovuled; style nearly as Jong as the ovary 
cylindric, bent outwards, glabrous; stigma small, slightly bifid. Ripe carpels spon 
blunt, tapering at the base, slightly rugose, glabrous, 1:25 to 1:5 in. long and ation 
*O or ‘6 in. in diam.; stalk -4 to °5 in. Seeds 1 or 2, compressed, ovoid, smooth. 
King in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal 61, pt. 2, 110.—Unona macrantha, Kurz in Andam. 
Report, Ed. 1, App. B. I—Pyramidanthe macrantha, Kurz 1. ¢. Ei. 2, p. 29. 
: S. Andaman,—Kurz, King’s Collector. 
In some of its characters (eg., the erect habit, the fewness of the ovules, and 
the thin texture and flatness of the much elongated outer petals) this does not quite 
conform to the characters of typical Melodorum. By its thin elongated outer petals, 
it approaches the Dasymaschalon section of Unona; but the fewness of its ovules 
excludes it therefrom. From Xylopia, which it in some respects resembles, it is 
chiefly excluded by the very convex torus of its flowers, and by the very pointed 
apical appendage of its stamens. The stamens, on the other hand, are those of 
Melodorum, and the petals resemble those of M. prismaticum (Pyramidanthe rufa, Migq.) 
On the whole, therefore, I think it best to leave this plant in the genus to which 
Kurz finally referred it. ' 
Prate 186, Melodorum macranthum, Kurz. 1, Leaf-twig; 2, flowers; 3, fruit nearly 
ripe; 4, seed; 5, inner surface of outer petal; 6, inner petals cohering into a cone; 
7, sepals and andro-gyncecium—of natural size; 8 & 9, anthers; 10 & 11, pistils— 
enlarged. 
- 20. Metoporum ELEGANS, Hook. fil. § Thoms. Fl. Ind. 122. A large climber; young 
branches slender, puberulous at first, ultimately glabrous, dark-coloured. Leaves thinly 
coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, slightly narrowed to the rounded base; upper 
surface olivaceous when dry, glabrous; lower paler, puberulous, minutely reticulate, the 
12 or 18 pairs of main nerves spreading, faint; length 2°5 to 3°5 in., breadth 1 to 1:25 
in.; petiole °25 to °*35 in. Flowers axillary, solitary or 2 or 3 in a fascicle, *35 to 
*65 in. long; pedicels slender, °35 to ‘6 in. long, often deflexed, with 2 or 3 minute 
basal bracteoles. Sepals ovate, acute, united at the base only, spreading, outside tuber- 
cular and pubescent, inside glabrous and concave, ‘1 in. long. Petals leathery, the outer 
broadly ovate, sometimes minutely ovate-oblong, silky, rufous-tomentose outside, hoary- 
puberulous within, with a perfectly glabrous patch at the concave base, ‘35 to °6 in. 
long; inner petals only ‘25 in. long, very thick, triquetrous and puberulous above, concave 
and glabrous at the base inside. Stamens numerous, with filaments half as long as the 
anther-cells; apical process of connective short, thick, obliquely triangular. Ovaries 
narrowly oblong, glabrous, with 8 ovules in two rows; style short, lateral. Ripe carpels 
ovoid or ovoid-globose, blunt at each end, glabrous, *35 to ‘5 in. long; stalks slender, 
-25 in. long, compressed, black, shining, pitted. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. 1, 82; Mig. Fi. 
Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, 36; King in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal 61, pt. 2, 111.—Uvaria elegans, 
Wall. Cat. 6474A. 
This is closely allied to M. fulgens, H. f. & T., but its flowers have more slender 
and usually longer pedicels; the ovary of this is moreover glabrous, while that “of 
M. fulgens is pubescent, and the carpels of this are under half an inch in length, while 
