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Hab. Not unfrequent in the tropical and low forest of the southern 

 slopes of the Pegu Yomah, chiefly on permeable laterite. PI. May to June. 



3. O. POEMCATA, Hf. and Th. Fl. Ind. I. 146 and Ind. Fl. I. 71. 

 (Uvaria fornicata, Eoxb. PL Ind. II. 662). 



Hab. Not unfrequent in the tropical forests of South Andaman ; 

 Tenasserim, Mergui (Griff.). PI. May. 



Doiibiful species. 



1. 0. TJN0NJ3E0LIA, Hf. and Th. PL Ind. I. 146 and Ind. Ph 1. 71. 



Hab. Tenasserim, Tavoy (Wallich). 



Goniothalamus, Bl. 



Conspectus of species. 



Flowers about 9 lin. long. ... ... ... ... ,„G. sesqtiipedalis. 



Flowers about 2 in. long ... ... ... ... ...Ci. GriffitJiii. 



1. G. SESQUiPEDALis, Hf and Th. PI. Ind. I. 108 and Ind. PI. I. 73. 

 (^Guatteria sesqtdpedalis, Wall. PI. As. rar. III. t. 266). 



Hab. Tenasserim (teste Hf. and Th). 



2. G. GEiEriTHii, Hf. and Th. PI. Ind. I. 110 and Ind. PI. I. 73. 

 Hab. Eather rare in the tropical forests of the eastern slopes of the 



Pegu Yomah (headwaters of Swachouiig) j Martaban (Brandis) • Tenasserim, 

 Mergui (Griif;. 



Melodorum, Dun. 



Conspectus of species. 

 Sect. 1. PyramidantJie, Miq. Calyx cyathiform, 3-lobed. Flowers large, 2-5 in. long. 

 Flowers 4-5 in. long, white ; leaves membranous, quite glabrous, ...M. macrantJmm. 



Flowers 2-3 in. long, yellow ; leaves beneath densely puberulous, glabrescent coriace- 

 ous, ... ... ... ... ... .. M. prismaticum. 



Sect. 2i. Eu-Melodoruni. Calyx deeply 3-cleft ; flowers small, 1 in. or less long. 



Flowers about an in. long or a little longer ; carpels simply tomeutose, ... Jf. ruliginosum. 



Flowers about i in. long, ... ... ... ... .. M. Griffithii. 



Flowers nearly f in. long ; carpels densely verrucose, pubescent, ,,.M. verrucosum. 



Flowers 1 m. long ; carpels almost glabroiis, .. ... ... M.hicolor. 



1. M. MACEANTHUM Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng., 1872, 291. {TTno- 

 namacrantlia, Kurz in And. Eep. ed. 1. App. B. 1 j Fyramidantlie macrcmtha, 

 Kurz, 1. c, ed. 2, p. 29). 



Hab. Eather rare in the tropical forests about Port Mouat, South 

 Andaman. PI. June. 



The large flowers resemble much those of Unona longijiora^ the leaves 

 those of Goniotlialamus cardiopetalus. 



2. M. ETJBiGiNOSUM, Hf. and Th. PI. Ind. I. 116 and Ind. PI. I. 79. 

 Hab. Eare in the tropical forests of Martaban (E. of Tounghoo) j 



Tenasserim ; Chittaoronsc. 



