96 ANONACÉES (Finet et Gagnepain) Melodorum 
rieurs connivents, puis séparés, les 3 intérieurs longtemps en cône, 
puis libres. Efamines à loges extrorses ; prolongement du connectif 
épais. Carpelles libres, plus de 10, rarement 3-4, ordinairement 
velus ; style indistinct du stigmate qui est en gouttière, à deux 
lèvres ou cylindrique sillonné; ovules 4 au moins : carpelles mûrs 
villeux, toujours pédiculés, globuleux ou ovoïdes ; graines horizon- 
tales en quinconce (fruit d’Uvaria). — Distris. région tropicale ; 
espèces asiatiques : plus de 30. 
Craib, Kew Bull. 435. 1915, described and well illustrated by King, Ann. 
Bot. Gard. Calcutta 4: 47. #. 62. 1893 as A. burmanicus (non A. DC.!), 
one of the few species in this alliance that has densely hirsute ovaries. It 
1°ee = 
1942] MERRILL, RECORDS OF INDO-CHINESE PLANTS, II 165 
3 mm. longo, glabro, stipite sursum leviter incrassato, apicem cum antheris 
circiter 2 mm. diametro, convexo; antheris 10, sessilibus, 1 mm. longis. 
Ixpo-CHINA, Tonkin, Sontoy Province, Mount Bavi, Pételot 6608, in open humid 
forests. 
This is clearly distinct from any of the five species admitted by Lecomte 
as occurring in Indo-China. It is characterized by its relatively thin leaves 
which are glaucous beneath, its short substellate-subfurfuraceous indu- 
mentum on the inflorescences and younger parts, and by its few-flowered, 
simple staminate umbels. In accordance with Warburg’s arrangement of 
the species it apparently belongs in the group with Xnema Pierrei Warb. 
which has much larger, more numerously nerved leaves. 
HERNANDIACEAE 
Illigera Petelotii sp. nov. $ Appendiculatae ? 
Frutex scandens, plus minusve pubescens, caulibus in sicco subcastaneis, 
longitudinaliter sulcatis, leviter pubescentibus glabrescentibus, ramulis ulti- 
mis teretibus, 1.5-2 mm. diametro, parce pubescentibus; foliis 3-foliolatis, 
petiolo 7-9 cm. longo, leviter pubescenti, axillis plerumque alabastra ferru- 
gineo-pubescentia gerentibus; foliolis subcoriaceis vel junioribus submem- 
branaceis, ellipticis anguste ovato-ellipticis vel leviter obovato-ellipticis, 
breviter obtuse acuminatis, basi leviter cordatis, 8-12 cm. longis, 5-7 cm. 
latis, supra glabris vel ad costam nervosque breviter pubescentibus, in sicco 
olivaceo-brunneis, subnitidis, subtus paullo pallidioribus, breviter molli- 
terque subconsperse pubescentibus, nervis lateralibus utrinque 4, curvato- 
adscendentibus, arcuato-anastomosantibus, subtus distinctis, elevatis, reticu- 
lis primariis gracilibus, distinctis; petiolulis breviter pubescentibus, 1.2-1.5 
cm. longis; infloréscentiis terminalibus, laxis, amplis, ad 25 cm. longis, ramis 
paucis, 10-15 cm. longis, breviter pubescentibus: floribus (ut videtur 
paucis) ignotis, bracteis oblongo-ellipticis, utrinque pubescentibus, 2-3 mm. 
longis: fructibus maturis (cum alis) 4-5 cm. latis. 2.5 cm. lonsis apice . 
