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their points are not inflcxed. And in these rospects they do not answer 
to the diagnosis of Popowia aa heretofore understood. I have therefore 
ventured to modify the generic character of Popowia in these points, and 
to institute a section of it to receive this and other two species. This 
species is closely allied to the plant originally described and figured 
by Blnme as Guatteria macropkylla, (Fl. Jav. Anon. 96 t. 47,) and to 
receive which Miqnel founded his genus Trivalvaria (Ann. Mus. Lugd. 
Bat. IT, 19). But, in Blume's and Miquel's plant, the inner petals are 
distinctly valvate, although their apices are not inflexed. And in the 
non-inllection of its pctnls it also docs not conform to the character of 
Popoioia as originally defined by its founder Endlicher. 
12. Popowia Hookeri, King. A shrub; young branches dark- 
coloured, glabrous. Leaves thinly coriaceous, broadly lanceolate or 
oblanceolate, acute or acuminate, the base acute : both surfaces glabrous, 
the lower silvery, shining: main nerves about 7 pairs, spreading, 
ascending, curving, rather prominent beneath, evanescent at the tips ; 
length 5 5 to 7 in., breadth 1*6 to 2'4 in. Flowers solitary or in fascicles 
of 2 or 3 from short extra-axillary, woody tubercles, polygamous, minute ; 
"the males as in Popowia Kurzii but smaller ; the females with many, 
densely pubescent ovaries and a few imperfect stamens ; bracts many, 
minute, strigose. Oarpeh many, "75 in. long, oblong, granulate, glabrous ; 
stalk -35 in." Guatteria pallida, H. f. and Th. Fl. Ind., 143 (not of 
Blume). Polyaltkia argentea, Hook. fil. and Thorns. Fl. Br. Tnd. I, 67. 
Assam and Sylhet; in dense forests, Hook. fil. and Thomson; Naga 
Hills, Mnsters. Khasia : Griffith. 
A species of which I have seen only imperfect specimens. The 
description jgiven above of the flowors is copied from Sir Joseph Hooker. 
In my opinion the plant is a Popowia rather than a Polyaltkia and to 
the former genus I have ventured to remove it. 
Doubtful Species. 
Popowia parvifolia, Kurz in Journ. of Botany for 1875, p. 324. Of 
this I have seen only leaf specimens with a few detached fruits. Tt ap- 
pears to bave also had the MSS. name P. nitida given to it by Kurz. 
18. Oxymitha, Blume, 
Climbing shrubs. Leaves parallel-nerved ; nervnles transverse, not 
forming intra-marginal loops. Flowers leaf-opposed or extra-axillary. 
Sepah 3, valvate, connate below. Petals 6, valvate, in 2 rows, outer 
large, long, flat or triquetrous and narrow, leathery, more or less spread- 
ing or connivent ; inner much smaller, ovate-lanceolate or oblong (long 
and narrow in O. fdipes and O. glanca), conniving over the stamens and 
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