Cananga.'\ iv. anonace^. (Hook. f. & Thorns.) 57 



A tall tree ; trunk straight ; bark ainooth, ashy ; shootB glabrous. Leaves 5-8 by 

 3-3 in., most puberuloua on the veins beneath, base roumled, margins waved ; petiole 



4 in. Flowers 3 in. long, usually 3-nate, drooping, yellow, odorous ; peduncles solitary 

 or several from old scars; pedicels 1 in., recurved, hoary, with a few basal and a median 

 soaly bract. Petals ^ in., base broad, silky when young. GarpeU about 12, ^-| in., 

 bvoid or obovoid, black, 6-12-seeded. 



2. C> vlr^ata, H, f. & T. ; leaves elliptic-oblong obtusely acuminate, 

 petiole and nerves beneath pubescent, inner petals much smaller than the 

 outer, carpels sessile densely tomentose. Unona virgata, Bl. Bijd. 14 ; Miquel 

 Fl. Ned. Ind. i. pt. 2, 42. Uvaria virgata, Bl. FL Jav. Anon. 43, t. 19 and 

 25 B. 



Malacca, Maingay. — Distrib. Java. 



A large tree; branches rather slender, pale, ultimate puberulous. Leaves 4-8 by 

 2-3 J in^ base subacute, Ihin, pale, membranous, above hardly shining, midrib puberulous 

 and nerves faint, below conco!orous, midrib arching, nerves distinct ; petiole \-^ in., 

 pubescent. Flowers |-1 in. diam., greenish-brown, 3-nate, axillary, tomentose. Sepals 

 \ in., ovate -lanceolate, acute. Petals subulate-lanceolate from a broad base ; inner flat 

 above, concave below with glabrous red ridges. Oownective of outer stamens truncate, 

 of inner with a long recurved beak. Ovaries 4-6, hirsute ; ovules many, 2-seriate ; 

 stigma sessile. Torus conic, truncate, hairy. Carpels 2-3 in., ovoid-oblong, top rounded) 

 walls very thick ; base contracted. Seeds many, horizontal, 2-seriate. 



3. ? C. monosperma, Hook.f. & T. ; branchlets and leaves quite gla- 

 brous, leaves elliptic obtuse acute or obtusely acuminate, nerves many 

 slender nearly horizontal, petals pubescent, outer broad oblong, inner oblong- 

 laaceolate, carpels small glabrous mammiUate short-stalked 1-seeded. 



Malacca, Maingay. 



A tree ; branches slender, pale ; branchlets and buds glabrous. Leaves 3-6 by 

 14-24 in., thin, coriaceous, base subacute, conoolorous, petiole \ in. Flowers axillary, 



5 in. diam., solitary, cernuous ; peduncle \-\ in., glabrous, curved, bract basal. SepaU 

 broad-ovate, very small. Petals hoary, obtuse, inner as long but much narrower than 

 the outer. .4mtAers truncate. TorziS convex, hairy. OuaWe* very many, silky ; style 0; 

 ovules several, sub-2-6eriate. Carpels ^ in., very obliquely globose, or broader than 

 long ; walls thin, stout. Seed a little compressed, shining, pitted. 



8. CVATHOSTEnxnZA, Griffith. 



A shrub. ? Flowers subglobose in much-branched axillary pendulous cymes 

 from the old wood. Seimls 3, connate, hirsute. Petals 6, 2-seriate, short, 

 base fleshy, inner rather smaller, all valvate at the base, tips inibricate. 

 Torus flat, margin convex. Stamens many, linear ; anthers subintrorse, pro- 

 cess of connective oblique incurved. Ov<wies many ; style cylindric, gla- 

 brous, notched; ovules many, 2-seriate. Eipe carpels turgid, many- 

 seeded. 



1. C. vlrldiflorum, Griff. NotuL. iv. 707 ; Ic. iv. t. 650; leaves obova,te- 

 oblong or oblong-lanceolate acuminate or apiculate glabrous. 



Eastern Peninsula, QriWi; Penano, Maingay; North Andaman, Kurz. 



Wood remarkable (Griffith Notul. I.e.), aromatic, pith small, wood crueiately 

 ■Wc)bed. Leaves 4-8 by 2-3 in., base rounded or subacute, petiole J-^ in. Flowers 

 J id. diam. ; cymes brown-tomentose ; bract submedian, oblong. Sepals broader than 

 long. Petals acute, base contracted, of inner most so, tomentose, granular. Ovaries 

 densely tomentose. Carpels 1-1 4 in., oblong, smooth, glabrous; stalk as long, stout. — 

 Kurz's specimens have leaves only, but these and the wood agree with Griffith'*. 



