112 FLORA INDICA. [JnOTMCeCE. 



Hamuli grisei, vix pubescentes, juniores fasco-pubescentes. Folia plerumque longe 

 attenuata, obtusa, basi acuta, membranacea, glaberrima, 4-5 poll, longa, l^-lj lata, 

 petiolo sesquilineam longo. Pedunculi gracillimi, 1-2 poll, longi. Sepala ovata 

 acuta, ciliata. Feiala exteriora rotundata, pateatia, ciliata; interiora duplo majora, 

 margine et apice pubesceotia. 



We bare not had an opportunity of examining a flower, and haTe therefore derived 

 our descriptiou of the perianth, etc., from Alph. De CandoUe. The flowers appear 

 to be very small. 



5. O. acuminata (Alph. DC. Mem. 39); foliis oblongo-lanceola- 

 tis ad nervos subtus velutinis, pedunculis filiformibus 1-3-floris pubc- 

 scentibus, staminibus 6 uniserialibus ?, ovariis 6 dense strigosis bi-ovu- 

 latis.— TTflZ/. Cat. 6433 ! 



Hab. In Tenasserim prope Tavoy, Wall.! — [v. «.) 



Hamuli graciles, rugulosi, nigri, juniores dense tomentosi. Tolia plernmque longe 

 attenuata, membranacea, supra glabra, subtua precsertim secus costam puberula vel 

 velutina, nervis validis obliquis, venulis transversis parallelis (ut in Oxijmitra) con- 

 spieuis, 4-5 poll, longa, I-I5 lata, petiolo 1-2 lineas longo. Fedunimli basi brac- 

 teis pluribus subulatis pilosis muuiti, ultrapollicares. Sepala minuta, ovato-lancco- 

 lata, dense pilosa. Petala exteriora minuta, membranacea, ovalia, pilosa ; interiora 

 longe uuguiculata, iis 0. Zeylanic<e conformia. 



6. O. ? obliqua (H.f. et T.) ; foliis oblongis vel lanceolatis acutis 

 rigide coriaceis basi inaequalibus utrinque glaberrimis, floribus termi- 

 nalibus 1-3 fasciculatis, carpellis ovaEbus. 



Hab. In Zeylania, Gardner .^ TproTpe Galle, Champion! — (». s.) 



Arbor ? 'Hamuli Iscves, glaberrimi, atro-fusci. Folia brevissime pedicellata, basi 

 inEequilatera, nempe uno latere rotundata, altero acuta, apice acuta vel acuminata, 

 4-5 poU. longa, li-2 lata, petiolo vix lineam longo, supra lucida, subtus pallida ; 

 margines iu sicco recurvi. Flores minuti, glabri, brevissime pedicellati. (Ex. icone 

 Champion, stamina 6, ovaria 3.) Pedunculus fructus incrassatus, clavatus. Carpella 

 diam. -^-poll., atro-fusca, glabra, Isevia, Semina 2, rotundata, subcompressa ; testa 

 nitida, brunnea, scrobiculata. 



This is a very remarkable plant, which, without a knowledge of the structure of 

 the flowers, we are induced to refer to Orophea^ from a certain general resemblance, 

 especially in the obliquity of the leaves, to 0. latifolia, Blume, the flower of which 

 is also scarcely known. The shape of the fruit diflers too much to permit of the two 

 being considered the same species ; but perhaps, when the flowers of both are known, 

 they wUl be found to be congeners, and to be deserving of being generically sepa- 

 rated from Orophea. Mr. Thwaites' No. 2613, according to a fragment just received, 

 is a different but closely allied species. 



8. MITREPHORA, Blume. 



Uvaria, § Mitrephora:, Bl. Fl. Jav. Anon. 



Sepala 3, rotundata. Petala 6, eestivatione biseriatim valvata ; ex- 

 teriora ovata, nervis subconspicuis ; interiora basi unguiculata, lamina 

 fornicata. Torus depresse conious, subtrunoatus, medio parum exoava- 

 tus, pilosus. Stamina numerosa, oblongo-cuneata, antheris dorsalibus 

 remote bilooularibus, connectivo trunoato-capitato. Ovaria oblonga, 

 glabra. Ovula in axi biseriaJda, numerosa. Stylus oblongus, intus sul- 

 catus. — Arbores sape excelsce, foliis coriaceis, nervis crebris parallelis 

 conspicuis. 



