104 FLORA INDICA. [Jnonocea. 



The fruit in the specimens which we have seen is far from ripe. It is perhaps a 

 species of Saccopetalum. 



4. ELLIPEIA, H.f. et T. 



Sepala 3, parva. Petala 6, rotimdata, obtusissima, cestivatione im- 

 bricata, interiora exterioribus minora, basi angustata. Torus convexi- 

 usculus. Stamina indefinita, linearia, connective truncato ultra antheraa 

 pai'allelas producto. Ovaria numerosa, strigosa, oblonga. Ovulum 1, 

 suturse ventrali supra medium insertum, globosum. Sii/lus oblongus, 

 pubescens. Carpella monosperma, obliqua. — Frutex forsan scandens, 

 floribus panioulatis. 



This is a very remarkable plant, which cannot well be associated with any of the 

 existing genera of Anonaceo!, The ovarium resembles that of Melodorum or Mitre- 

 phora, but the imbricated petals and the very different stamens forbid its union with 

 either. The single ovule attached to the ventral suture has few parallels in the 

 Order. From its decidedly imbricated petals, it belongs undoubtedly to the tribe 

 Uvariew, in which it will be readily distinguished by the ovary and style, and the 

 one-seeded carpels, which are curiously oblique, as in some species of the genus 

 Milium. In both the cause is probably the same, the development of a single ovule 

 attached to the ventral suture, not to the base of the cell, which is the usual posi- 

 tion in the Order. (Name from cXAittjj, defectioe.) 



1. E. cuneifolia (H.f. et T.) ; foliis anguste obovato-oblongis ab- 

 rupte acuminatis basin versus ouneato-angustatis obtusis vel subcor- 

 datis, floribus in panicula laxa terminali dispositis. 



Hab. Malaya prope Malacca, Griffith!- — (w. s.) 



Ramuli ferrugineo-velutini. Folia 6-8 poll, longa, 2-3 lata, petiole vix l-poll., 

 basin versus longe angustata, coriacea, rigida, supra lucida et praster costam tomen- 

 tosam glabra, subtus adpresse fulvo-tomentosa, nervis obliqois paraUehs numerosis 

 conspicuis. Panicula terminalis, ramosa, multiflora, plerumque aphylla. Flores 

 dense tomentosi, bractea rotundata concava calyci adpressa. Sepala rotuudata, 

 bracteam sequantia. Fetala exteriora coriacea, convesa, utrinque fulvo-tomentosa, 

 l-poUicaria, interiora multo minora. Carpella oblonga, f poll, longa, adpresse tomen- 

 tosa, pedicello li-pollicari, oblique inserta, infra medium mucrone parvo apiculatum. 



Tribus II. Mituephoee^. 



Petala ffistivatione valvata; interiora basi unguiculata. Stamina 

 dense conferta, rarius definita. 



The genera which are associated in this tribe are all well marked by habit and 

 characters, except Popowia, which is so imperfectly known that its position must 

 Btm be considered doubtful. 



5. POPOWIA, Endl. 



Orophea; species, Blume, Fl. Jav. 



Sepala Z, ovata. Petala 6 ; exteriora minora, ovata, sepalis pauilo 

 majora ; interiora crassa, ovata, concava, apiculo inflexo, basi late un- 



