ANONACEZ OF BRITISH INDIA. 149 
pericarp fleshy. Seeds 1 to 4; stalks thick, ‘3 in. long. King in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal 
G1; pe. 2; is, 
Penang; on Government Hill at 600 feet—Curtis Nos. 857 & 880. 
Puate 194A. Xylopia stenopetala, Oliver. 1, Leaf-twig; 2, fascicle of flowers ; 
3 & 5, inner petals; 4, outer petal—of natural size; 6, sepals and andro-gynccium— 
slightly enlarged ; 7 & 8 anthers; 9 & 10, pistils—much enlarged. 
13. Xynopra Cuampionu, Hook. fil. §& Thoms. Fl. Ind. 126, A tree; branches slender, 
rufous-tomentose, afterwards glabrous and dark-coloured, Leaves thinly coriaceous, 
lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, the base sub-cuneate; both surfaces reticulate; the upper 
glabrous and shining, the lower sparsely puberulous; main nerves about 9 to 10 pairs, 
spreading, famt; length 8°5 to 5:5 in., breadth -9 to 1°6 in.; petiole *3 to -4 in. Flowers 
yellowish, solitary, axillary, 1*1 in. long; pedicels stout, +1 in. long, bracteolate at the 
base. Sepals thick, united into a cup with broadly ovate-acuminate spreading teeth. 
Petals very thick, narrowly-oblong, adpressed-rufous-pubescent outside, puberulous inside ; 
the inner one-third shorter than the outer. Stamens with sub-quadrate apiculus. Anthers 
linear, lateral, not septate. Pistil usually solitary; ovary ovoid, conic, glabrous, 4-ovuled; 
style short. Carpel oblong, cylindric, apiculate, tapering to the base, 1:25 to 1:75 in. 
long. Seeds 3 or 4, surrounded by a little pulp. Hook. jil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 84; Thwaites? 
Enum. Pl. Ceyl. 9; Beddome Ic. Pl. Ind. Or., ¢. 46. 
Ceylon,— Gardner, Thwaites. 
Prate 194B. Xylopia Championu, H. f. § Th. 1, Flowering branch; 2, ripe carpel; 
8, section of ripe carpel; 4 & 5, seeds—of natural size; 6, pedicel and calyx; 7, section 
through calyx to show the solitary pistil; 8, outer petal; 9, inner petal—slightly enlarged ; 
10, anther—much enlarged. 
14, Xynopra Scortrecuini, King in Journ. As. Soe, Bengal 61, pt. 2, 118. A tree 
50 to 60 feet high; young branches rusty-tomentose, ultimately glabrous, much striate 
and pale brown. Leaves coriaceous, obovate-elliptic to elliptic-oblong, very shortly and 
abruptly acuminate, slightly narrowed to the sub-cuneate rounded slightly oblique base ; 
upper surface glabrous, the midrib slightly rufous-puberulous near the base; lower 
surface pale, sparsely rufous-pubescent especially on the midrib and 10 to 14 pairs of 
oblique, rather’ straight, prominently raised, main nerves; length 4 to 7 in., breadth 1°75 
to 4 in.; petiole °35 in., pubescent, Flowers rarely solitary, usually in fascicles of 2 to 4 
on tubercles in the axils of leaves or of fallen leaves; pedicels short (‘2 to ‘25 in.), stout, 
rusty-tomentose with a sub-mesial bracteole. Sepals quite free, broadly ovate, blunt, 
pubescent outside, glabrous inside. Petals thickened, linear-obtuse with an orbicular 
concave claw vaulted over the stamens and pistils, 1:25 to 1°75 in. long, pubescent every- 
where except on the glabrous concavity of the claw. Sfamens numerous, with truncate 
4- or 5-angled apices concealing the lateral anthers. Ovaries few, short, oblong, pubescent, 
4- or 5-ovuled; stigma large, oblong. Ripe carpels broadly ovoid, blunt, rufous-pubescent 
when young, glabrescent when old, ‘8 in. long and °6 in. in diam. Seeds about 4, 
discoid, pale brown, shining. Drees stenopetala, Scortechini uss. 
Perak,—Scortechini No. 1781, King’s Collector No. 8241. 
A species allied to X. olivacea, King; but with broader leaves, shorter pede 
narrower petals and ovoid sub-glabrous fruit. : 
