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The drier parts of Northern India and in Burmah, at low elevations: common. 
Piate 206. Miliusa velutina, H. f. § Th 1, Flowering branch; 2, ripe. carpols; 
3 & 4, sections of carpels—of natural size; 5 & 6, anthers; 7, ovary—enlarged. 
Doubtful Species. 
Miniusa FLAviDA, Aurg uss. The only specimens thus named are in the Calcutta 
Herbarium, and they are too imperfect for description. 
24. Saccopetalum, Benneit. » 
Trees. Leaves deciduous, Flowers axillary, solitary or fascicled. Sepals 3, small, 
valvate. Petals 6, valvate in 2 series; outer small, like the sepals; inner much larger, 
erect or conniving, base saccate. Stamens indefinite; anther-cells dorsal, contiguous; 
connective produced into a conspicuous appendage. Ovaries indefinite; ovules 6 or more. 
Ripe carpels sub-globose. Distrib.—Species five, Eastern Asiatic, with one Australian.— 
Reduced to Miliusa by Baillon (Hist. des Plantes 244), from which it differs chiefly 
by its saccate petals. | 
Synopsis of the species. 
Flowers hermaphrodite. 
Flower pedicels 1°75 to 2°5 in. long. . . . - «6 +» + © « « Ae SS. tomentosum, 
Hlowor -pediosss20° ims “lonpe se ak ees ew we ke Re WS Conpiporum. 
Flowers dioceous. 
Flower pedicels °25 to'"35in. long . . «© «© +b © ws e + y 8 SG, 8cherocarpum. 
1. Saccoperatum tTomeNnTosuM, H. f. & Th. Fl. Ind. 152. A large tree; young 
branches tomentose, afterwards glabrous and pale. Leaves thickly membranous, ovate or 
ovate-oblong, acute, the base sub-acute or rounded; upper surface glabrous or glabrescent, 
the midrib always pubescent ; under-surface pubescent or tomentose, nearly glabrous when 
old; main nerves 6 to 11 pairs, spreading, prominent beneath; length 4 to 6 in, 
breadth 2:5 to 3in.; petiole -2 in. Flowers 1 in. in diam., leaf-opposed or sub-terminal, 
solitary or in pairs; their pedicels very slender, puberulous, 1°75 to 2°5 in. long, 
bracteolate at the base; peduncle (when present) less than °5 in. long, tomentose. Sepals 
and outer petals minute, sub-equal, lanceolate, reflexed, pubescent, *15 in. long. Inuer 
petals much larger than the outer, *45 in. long, ovate-oblong, obtuse, pouched at the 
base, minutely pubescent on both surfaces. Séamens in several rows, numerous, com- 
pressed, minutely apiculate. Ovaries ovate, pointed, hirsute at the base, otherwise sparsely 
pubescent; ovules about 6, in two rows; stigma sessile, capitate. tipe carpels globose, 
succulent, tapering slightly to the base, pubescent, dark purple when ripe, 1 in. in diam.; 
stalks *5 in. Dalz. Bomb. Flore 4; Beddome Ic. Pl. Ind. Or., t. 49.—Uvaria tomentosa, 
Roxb. Corom, Pl, i. t. 85; Fl. Ind. ii. 667; W. & A. Prodr, 8; Wall. Cat. 6472. 
: Nepal Terai; Goojerat; Rajputana, Central India; Orissa; Bihar; Concan ; Travancore. 
In leaves this often resembles some of the forms of Miliusa velutina, but the latter 
have shorter petioles. The flower pedicels, and even the flowers themselves, are also 
superficially somewhat alike; but the inner petals of this are pouched at the base and 
