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Slender, bracteated with many scales at the base: sepals ciliated ¢ 
outer petals roundish, inner ones trapezoid, with the claw as long: 
as the outer petal: stamens 12, in 2 rows, nearly round : stigmas 
linear-oblong, longer than the ovaries: carpels 6, globose, dark, 
brown, glabrous. 
Courtallum mountains. 
(3) O. Zexuanica. (HF. & 1.) 
Ident. Hook. & Thoms. Flor. Ind. I. p. 111. 
Spec. Cuar. Leaves oval-oblong, obtusely acuminated, younger 
ones ciliated with white hairs, afterwards glabrous : peduncle vati- 
ans in length, slender, often many-flowered, solitary or fascicled, 
with minute bracts at the base of the pedicels: sepals orbicular, 
tomentose ; outer petals roundish, pubescent, hoary at the margin, 
inner ones trapezoid, thickened at the apex, pubescent at the margin 7 : 
stamens 6: ovaries about 15, glabrous, obovate: stigma capitate; 
carpels globose, baceate, smooth, glabrous, short-pedicelled. 
Canara. 
GENUS XI. MITREPHORA. 
Polyandria Polygynia. Ser: Syst: 
Deriv. From Mitra, a mitre, and Phoreo, to bear. ‘ 
Gen. Cuar. Trees: sepals 3, roundish : petals 6, in two rows, 
valvate in zstivation, outer ones ovate, with somewhat conspicuous 
nerves, inner ones clawed: laminz vaulted: disk depressed-conical,: 
somewhat truncated, slightly excavated in the middle, hairy: sta- 
mens numerous, oblong-ctineate : anthers dorsal, remotely 2-celled ;' 
connectivum truncately capitate: ovaries oblong, glabrous : ovules 
numerous : style oblong, furrowed within. 
(1) M. romentosa. (H. F. & 7.) 
Edent. Hook. & Thoms. Flor. Ind. I. p. 113: 
Stec. Cuar. Leaves ovate or oblong-lanceolate, actite or acu- 
minated, roundéd at the base, partly hairy above, below with the 
petiole tomentose with rough tawny hairs: peduncles leaf-opposed,' 
tomentose, 2—4-flowered: bracts stem-clasping, thick, tomentose, 
deciduous : pedicels bracteolate above the middle ; flower-buds taw- 
hy tomentose : sepals broad-ovate, acute: outer petals ovate, acute,’ 
inner ones broadly clawed : ovaries glabrous: disk tomentose : car~ 
pels 10-20, broad-ovoid or subglobose with granular tubercles. 
Assam and Chittagong. 
GENUS XII. MELODORUM. 
Polyandria Polygynia. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. From Mel, honey, and Odor, smell, alluding to the fras 
grance of some of the species, 
