1892.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malay Peninsula. Ill 



angular, pointed. Ovaries numerous, narrowly oblong, adpressed-rufous- 

 pubescent, 4-ovuled : style nearly as long as the ovary, cylindric, bent 

 outwards, glabrous ; stigma small, slightly bifid. Ripe carpels oblong, 

 blunt, tapering at the base, slightly rugose, glabrous, T25 to 1"5 in. long 

 and about '5 or "6 in. in diam. : stalk "4 to - 5 in. Seeds 1 or 2, com- 

 pressed, ovoid, smooth. TJnona viacrantJia, Kurz. in Andam. Report, Ed. 

 I, App. B. I : Pyramidanthe macrantha, Kurz. 1. c. Ed. 2, p. 29. 

 S. Andaman ; Kurz, King's Collector. 



In some of its characters, (e. g., the erect habit, the fewness of the 

 ovules, and the thin texture and flatness of the much elongated outer 

 petals) this does not quite conform to the characters of typical Melodo- 

 rum. By its thin elongated outer petals, it approaches the Dasymasch- 

 alon section of TJnona ; but the fewness of its ovules excludes it there- 

 from. From Xylopia, which it in some respects resembles, it is chiefly 

 excluded by the very convex torus of its flowers, and by the very pointed 

 apical appendage of its stamens. The stamens on the other hand are 

 those of Melodorum, and the petals resemble those of M . prismaticum 

 (Pyramidanthe rnfa, Miq.). On the whole therefore, I think, it best to 

 leave this plant in the genus to which Kurz finally refez^red it. 



13. Melodorum elegans, Hook. fil. and Thorns. Fl. Ind. 122. A 

 large climber : young branches slender, puberulous at first, ultimately 

 glabrous, dark-coloured. Leaves thinly coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, slightly narrowed to the rounded base : upper surface oliva- 

 ceous when dry, glabrous : lower paler, puberulous, minutely reticulate, 

 the 12 or 13 pairs of main nerves spreading, faint : length 2 - 5 to 3"5 in. 

 breadth 1 to 1*25 in., petiole '25 to "35 in. Flowers axillary, solitary or 

 2 or 3 in a fascicle, '35 to '65 in. long : pedicels slender, *35 to "6 in. lono- 

 often deflexed, with 2 or 3 minute basal bracteoles. Sepals ovate, acute, 

 united at the base only, spreading, outside tubercular and pubescent, 

 inside glabrous and concave, T in. long. Petals leathery, the outer 

 broadly ovate, sometimes minutely ovate-oblong, silky, rufous-tomentose 

 outside, boary-puberulous within, with a perfectly glabrous patch at the 

 concave base, "35 to "6 in long : inner petals only '25 in. long, very thick, 

 triquetrous and puberulous above, concave and glabrous at the base, 

 inside. Stamens numerous, with filaments half as long as the anther- 

 cells ; apical process of connective short, thick, obliquely triano-ular. 

 Ovaries narrowly oblong, glabrous, with 8 ovules in 2 rows : style short, 

 lateral. Pipe carpels ovoid or ovoid-globose, blunt at each end, glabrous 

 •35 to -5 in. long : stalks slender, '25 in. long, compressed, black, shining-, 

 pitted. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 82 : Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, pt. 2, p. 36^ 

 TJvaria elegans, Wall. Cat. 6474A. 



This is closely allied to M. fulgens, H. f . and T. ; but its flowers have 



