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Trih. IV. 3IITEE PRO JRUyE. Petals valvate, tlic outer ones open, the inner ones 

 erect, connivent or connate at their tips and often claw-like narrowed at the base. 

 * Petals of the inner row shorter or equally long. 



X Petals not narrowed at the base, or the claw-like base broad. 

 13. OxYMiTEA. Inner petals connivent, not or almost not narrowed at base. 

 Ovules 2, erect. Seeds not angular. 



14-, GoNiOTHALAMUS. Inner petals connivent, narrowed in a broad claw. Ovules 

 2, erect. 



15. Melodoeum. Petals thick coriaceous, the inner ones shorter, triquetrous at 

 summit and hollowed at base on the inner side. 



X X Petals narrowed into curved not angular free slender claws, the 

 laminae cohering in a sort of mitre. 



16. MiTEEPHOEA. Stamens numerous. Ovules many, in 2 rows. Flowers usually 

 rather conspicuous, sometimes dioecious. 



17. Oeophea. Stamens definite, 6, 9, or 12. Ovules 2-4. Flowers usually very 

 small. 



* * Sepals and the 3 outer petals usually conform or nearly so, minute, 

 resembling a calyx. Inner petals large, erect-connivent, often saccate or 

 concave at base. 



18. Ph^anthus. Inner petals flat, rather thick. Ovules 1 or 2. Anther-cells 

 concealed by the overlapping connectives. 



19. MiLmsA. Inner petals flat. Ovules 2 or more. Anther-cells not concealed. 



Bocagea, St. Hil. 

 1. B. ELLiPTiCA, Hf. and Th. in Ind. Fl. I. 92. 

 Hab. Tenasserim, Tavoy (Wall.). 



Uvaria, L. 

 Conspectus of species. 

 Stihg. 1. 'Ellljpeia. Ovules solitary or by pairs. Usually erect shrubs. 

 A little erect shrub; berries elliptical or nearly so, very small, glabrous,sessile, U.ferriiglnea, 

 Siibg. 2. ISu-uvaria. Ovules usually numerous, rarely few. Climbing shrubs. 



§ Flowers large or middling sized, the connective terminating in a large 

 almost leafy appendage. 

 O Carpels on long stalks. 



Flowers solitary; carpels and all other parts shortly tomentose, U. 'purpurea. 



All parts hirsute ; usually solitary; carpels tawny hirsute, TJ. Mrsuta. 



Flowers by 2 or 3 on a peduncle ; carpels tubercled and stellately hispid-tomentose ; all 



parts puberulous, , U. ptycJiocalyx. 



O O Carpels sessile or very shortly stalked. 



Peduncles 3-to 6-flowered ; carpels glabrous, < TI. macrophylla. 



Peduncles 1 -to 2-flowered; carpels tomentose, C. hracteata. 



§ § Flowers minute. Stamens truncate, the connective hardly produced beyond 

 the anther- ceUs. 



Berries on long slender stalks, glabrous, TI, micrantha. * 



1. U. FERRUGmEA, Ham. ap. Hf. and Tli. Fl. lud. I. 96. {Ellifeia 

 ferruginea, Hf. and Th. Ind. Fl. I, 52.) 

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