; 43 ANONACEE. [| Alphonsea 
abruptly acuminate, acute and iconcobies oblique at base, chartaceous, 
glabrous, or minutely and sparingly puberulous on the lax net-veina- 
tion beneath ; flowers solitary, axillary, and leaf-opposed, on a tawny 
pubescent 1-bracted pedicel 4 in. long ; calyx and corolla appressed 
tawny pubescent ; sepals ovate-cubulate, about 2 lin. long ; outer 
tals twice so long, lanceolate, acuminate, the imner ones #- 
long, oblong, bluntish. 
Has. pes Kakhyen hills—Fl. March. 
4. M. sc Kz.—A tree (40—50 + 15—35 + 5—5), 
perce te Ste fIS., the young shoots thinly appressed silky ; 
bark rather thin, smooth, longitudinally striate ; leaves oblong or 
alliptically oblong, on a rather short petiole, acute at base, apiculate, 
chartaceous or thin coriaceous, glabrous ; flowers dioecious, 7-8 lin. 
long, yellowish, on 3-4 lin. long slender pubescent bractless pedicels, 
fascicled or rarely singly on the very shortened axillary peduncle ; 
sepals and petals almost conform, short, linear-lanceolate, tawny 
tomentose ; inner petals 7-8 lin. long, lanceolate, blunt, puberulous 
outside, greyish tomentose inside ; stamens numerous, closely packed 
on the almost globular torus. 
B.—Not unfrequent in the upper mixed forests of the a _ 
late also a dry hill forests at 2,000—3,000 ft. elevation ; also Ten or 
Fl. March.—l.—SS. = Metam. 
Ran — Wood rather heavy, fibrous, but close-grained, soft, yellowish, 
s 
ALPHONSEA, Hf. & Th. 
Sepals 3, small, valvate. Petals valvate, in 2 series, larger than 
sepals, equal, or the inner rather smaller. ‘Torus cylindrical or 
. Stamens numerous, gece packed, the connective 
mites . Ovaries 1 or more, with 4-8 ventral ovules in 2 rows in 
each ; style oblong or depressed. Berries stalked or chearly sessile. 
Trees with coriaceous leaves. Flowers rather small, in leaf-opposed 
peduneled fascicles. 
hakos as Jong or ae oe ia stalk _ # .« . 9 . Cemereoes, 
very sh 
. A. lutea. 
1. A. ventricos Hf & Th, Ind. Fl. i. 89.—A large tree, the 
shoots rusty-tomentose ; leaves oblong or oblong-lanceolate, about 
6-10 in. long, rounded at base, on a short, thick, “puberulo ous petiole, 
shortly and bluntish acuminate, coriaceous, shining above, glabrous 
with the exception of the pubescent midrib ; pedicles very short — 
or reduced ; flowers greenish white, odorous, on }-1 in. long tawny 
tomentose pedicels 1-bracted at base and bearing a seale-like bract- 
let at their middle ; sepals pubescent outside ; 3; petals 8-9 lin. long, 
tawny tomentose, almost trapezoid, saccate at. base ; style obl long 5 
