86 G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malay Peninsula. [No. 1, 



S. Andaman ; Kurz, King. Burmah : Martaban, Wallich. 



Orophea undulata, (Pierre PI. Forest. Coch. -Chine t. 45) must be 

 closely allied to this, as must also the same author's 0. anceps, (1. c. t. 

 46). 



16. Miteephora, Blume. 

 Trees. Leaves coriaceous, strongly ribbed, plaited in vernation. 

 Flowers usually terminal or leaf-opposed, sometimes 1-sexual. Sepals 3, 

 orbicular or ovate. Petals 6, 2-seriate, valvate ; outer ovate, thin, veined ; 

 inner clawed, vaulted and cohering. Stamens oblong-cuneate ; the anther- 

 cells dorsal, remote, the connective broadly truncate at the apex. Ovaries 

 oblong ; style oblong or clavate, vcntrally furrowed ; ovules 4 or more, 

 2-seriate. Pipe carpels globose or ovoid, stalked or sub-sessile. — Distbib. 

 Species about 10 ; tropical Asiatic. 

 Flowers hermaphrodite ... ... ... 1. ill. Maingayi. . 



Flowers unisexual. 



Ripe carpels ovoid, apiculate, rugulose ... 2. M. reticulata. 



,, „ globular, not apiculate, not rugulose 3. M. macrophylla. 



„ ,, sub-globular, sub-truncate at each 



end, rugulose ... ... 4. M. Prainii. 



1. Mitbephoea MAINGAYI, Hook. fil. and Thorns. Fl. Br. Ind. 1, 77. 

 A tree 20 to 50 feet high : young branches softly rufous-tomentose 

 afterwards glabrous dark-coloured and striate. Leaves coriaceous, 

 oblong to ovate, (oblong-lanceolate in var. Kurzii), acute or shortly and 

 bluntly acuminate, the base rounded or sub-cuneate ; upper surface 

 shining, glabrous except the pubescent midrib ; under surface glabres- 

 cent, the midrib and nerves thinly adpressed-pubescent ; (pubescent 

 in var. Kurzii) ; main nerves 6 to 10 pairs, oblique, curving, slightly 

 prominent beneath : length 3 to 5'5 in., breadth JL - 5 to 2 in., petiole 

 '3 to "4 in. Flowers 1 in. or more in diam., axillary or leaf-opposed, 

 solitary or 2 or 3 in a multi-bracteolate and tomentose raceme ; pedi- 

 cels '5 to 1'5 in. (lengthening with age), bracteolate. Sepals connate 

 into a cup, broadly ovate, acute, (or obtuse in var.) tomentose. Petals 

 rather thinly pale yellow mottled with red, all more or less pubescent out- 

 side, the outer orbicular or obovate with undulate erose edges, slightly 

 narrowed at the base, (oblong in var. Kurzii) ; inner shorter, the outer very 

 pubescent inside, vaulted, ovate or cordate with a long linear claw. 

 Anthers numerous, short, with broad flat smooth tops. Ovaries gradually 

 narrowed into the short style ; ovules 4 ; stigma sub-capitate-discoid. 

 Pipe carpels broadly ovoid, blunt at each end, densely tomentose, I in. 

 long, and '75 in. in diam. : their stalks stout, "75 in. Seeds 4, compressed. 

 M. Teysmannii, Scheff. in Flora LII (1869), 302. TJvaria obtusa (not of 



