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rounded; upper surface glabrous, shining; the lower reticulate, puberu- 
lous, the midrib pubescent; main nerves 7 to 9 pairs, oblique : length 
45 to 6 in., breadth 15 to 2*25 in., petiole *2 in. Peduncles axillary or 
supra-axillary, slender, 1- to 3-flowered, pubescent ; bracts several, 
subulate, hairy. Flowers about 35 in. long, greenish-white. Sepals 
minute, orate to ovate-lauceolate, densely pubescent outside. Outer petal* 
thin, ovate-cordate, acuminate, pubescent; the inner larger, trapezoid with 
long narrow claw, glabrous with pubescent margins. Stamens 6, in one 
row. Ovaries about 6, pubescent, 2-ovuled. Ripe carpels oblong, snb- 
sessilo, acuminate, minutely adpressed-pubescent, 1*4 to 1"75 in. long. 
Seeds usuall} T solitary, sometimes "2iu. long, narrowly cylindric. Kurz 
For. Flora Burma, I, 49 : Miq. Fl. Iud. Bat. I, pt. 2 p. 29. 0. acuminata, 
A. D C. in Mem, Soc. Genev. V, 39 ; Hook. fil. and Thorns. Fl. Ind. 112 ; 
Hook. fil. Fl, Br. Ind. I, 91 ; Wall. Cat. 6432. Bocagea hexandra, 
Blume Fl. Jav. Anon. S3 t. 40. 
Burma prov. Tenasserini, Wallich. Great Coco Island; Kurz. S. 
Andaman ; King's Collectors. 
Pierre (Flore Forestiere Cochin-Chine t. 44) figures a species called 
0. Therein which, as be remarks, must be closely allied to this, 
5. Oropiiea enterocarpa, Maingay ex Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind in, T, 
92. A small tree 15 to 30 feet high ; all parts, except the inflorescence, 
glabrous : young branches slender, black, striate. Leaves membranous, 
ovate or sometimes obovatc-lanceolate to elliptic, acuminate (sometimes 
abruptly so) ; the base rounded, sometimes sub-cuneate ; both surfaces 
shining: main nerves 6 or 7 pairs, spreading, slender : length 2*5 to 5 
in., breadth 12 to 2 in., petiole 1 in. Flowers nodding, solitary, extra- 
axillary: the pedicels very slender, '75 to 1*25 in. long, glabrous below, 
pubescent above and with several ovate-lanccolato bracteoles. Sepals 
small, broadly ovate, acuminate, pubescent. Outer petals much larger 
than the sepals, ovate, acuminate, puberulous, the inner a little longor 
( 6 to "75 in. long) ; the limb elongated-trapezoid, puberulous ; the claw 
narrow and glabrous, yellowish with a reddish band ; staminodes 6. 
Stamens 6, with broad connective, not apiculate. Ovaries 6, cylindric, 
glabrous, 2- to 7-ovuled ; stigma small, sessile. Carpels 4 to 6, elongate- 
cyliudrie, glabrous, moniliform when dry, 3 to 5 in. long and '3 in. in 
diam. Seeds 2 to 7, linear-oblong. 
Malacca: Maingay. Pernk ; Scortechini, King's Collector. 
6. Orophea maculata, Scortechini MSS, A shrub or small tree t 
young branches slender, rusty- tomentose at first, afterwards glabrous, 
black and striate. Leaves membranous, elliptic-oblanceolate, caudate- 
acuminate, narrowed from below the middle to the rounded or sub- 
cuneate slightly unequal base : upper surface glabrous, the lower 
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