Lot ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA 
Prats 201A. Pheanthus andamanicus, King. 1, Flowering branch; 2, ripe carpels; 
3, seeds; 4, sepals and andro-gyneecitum—of natural size; 5, inner petals; 6 & 7, anthers; 
8 & 9, pistils—enlarged. eu 
4, PH#ANTHUS MALABARICUS, Beddome Ie. Pi. Ind. Or. og ke 0s AN shrub or anal tree ; 
young parts rusty-tomentose. Leaves oblong- lanceolate, shortly and rather abruptly 
acuminate, the base rounded or cordate; both surfaces glabrous except the midrib on 
the lower; main nerves 7 to 9 pairs, faint, spreading, the reticulations minute; length 
4 to 7 in., breadth 1 to 2 in.; petiole *15 in., pubescent. Flowers solitary, extra- 
axillary or axillary, ‘5 to °75 in. in diam.; pedicels ‘35 to *5 in., with 2 minute 
basal bracteoles. Sepals orbicular-ovate, acute, rusty-tomentose, spreading. Outer petals 
like the sepals, but about twice as large; inner red, thick and fleshy, ovate, acute, 
with slightly inflexed tips, connivent, more than twice as large as the outer. Ovaries 
numerous; ovules 1 or 2. Fruit unknown. 
Collected only by Colonel Beddome. By its rather large outer perale this forms 
a connecting link with Miliusa. 
South India: in Southern Wynaad,—Beddome. 
Prate 201B. Pheeanthus malabaricus, Bedd. 1, Flowering branch; 2, flower 
unexpanded ; 8, flower expanded; 4, sepals and andro-gynecium; 7, inner petal-—of 
natural size; 5, sepal; 6, outer petal; 8 & 9, anthers; 10, pistil; 11 & 12, sections 
of pisalss enlarghi (Copied from aes te. Pi ind; O7., 4. 36.) 
23. Miliusa, Leschenault. 
Trees or shrubs. Flowers usually bi-sexual (dicecious or polygamous in sp. 1), green 
or red, axillary or extra-axillary, solitary, fascicled or cymose. Sepals 3, small, valvate. 
Petals 6, valvate in 2 series; outer smaller, like the sepals; the inner thin, cohering 
when young by the margins, at length free. Torus elongated, cylindric. Stamens definite 
or indefinite. Anthers subdidymous; cells contiguous, ovoid, extrorse; connective more 
or less apiculate. Ovaries indefinite, linear-oblong; style oblong or very short; ovules 
1—2, rarely 3—4. Ripe carpels globose or oblong, 1- or 2- or many-seeded. — Distrib. 
Species 8; all Indian. 
Towers Giepclous “Or. Poly gAMous: at ok to cg es pct tel ashe Wave nc ede Roxburghiana. 
Flowers hermaphrodite. 
Leaves more or less glabrous, 
Flower pedicels 1:25 to.1°75 in. long; carpels oblong, °6 in. 
long, blunt, their stalks: shorter than the carpels; nerves of 
leaves 8 or 9 pairs’ . . 2, M. macrocarpe. 
Flower pedicels 1 to 1:25 in. ee nce globular or ovoid, 
4 to ‘5 in. long, mucronate, their stalks -3 to ‘5 in.; nerves 
of leaves 9 pairs . . . 3. M. Wightiana. 
Flower pedicels *5 to 1:5 in. sdotnss ; deticsts plbtiose,! ve in. in 
diam., mucronate; stalks -35 in.; nerves of leaves 7 pairs .. 4. UL. nilagirica. 
