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5. Oxymitra <ri. \r«'.\. H. f. and Th. Pi. Ind. 146 ; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. 
Ind. I, 71, A slender woody climber : young branches slightly tonien- 
tose, soon becoming glabrous. Leaves thinly coriaceous, elliptic, ellip- 
tic-lanceolate to lanceolate, obtuse, acute or shortly acuminate ; the 
base rounded, sometimes slightly narrowed ; upper surface glabrous, the 
midrib and sometimes the nerves pubescent ; the lower very pale, glauc- 
ous, glabrous or sparsely puberulous, the midrib pubescent ; main nerves 
8 to 12 spairs, Hpreading, prominent beneath : length 4 to 6 in., breadth 
1*5 to 2 in. ; petiole *2 in., pubescent. Flowers solitary, extra-axillary, 
narrow and elongate ; pedicels slender, "5 in. long, with a median subulate 
bract, longer in fruit. Sepals connate at the base, broadly ovate, much 
acuminate, adpressed-pnbescent, "25 in., long. Petals very unequal : the 
outer thickly coriaceous, linear-lanceolate, sub-acute, slightly expanded 
and sub-concave at the base, oulside minutely pubescent; inside glab- 
rous, the midrib prominent ! inner petals with sub-orbicular bases 
(cleft in the middle), and long acuminate points, glabrous, only about 
one-lifth as long as the outer. Ovaries hairy j ovule solitary. Carpels 
many, ovoid, slightly apiculnte, '4 in. long and '25 in. iu diam., minutely 
tomentose ; stalks slender, '75 in. long. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. 2, 50. 
Fenang, Malacca: Maingay (Kew Distrib.) No. 58. Perak ; com- 
mon at low-elevations. Distrib, : Sumatra, Beccari, No. 626. 
19. Melodouum, Dunal. 
Climbing shrubs. Flowers terminal, axillary and leaf-opposed, fasci 
cled or panicled ; buds triquetrous. Sepals 3, small, valvate, connate 
below. Petals 6, valvate, in 2 rows; outer plano-convex or trigonous: 
inner triquetrous above, hollowed below on the inner face. Stamens 
many; anther-cells dorsal, contiguous ; top of connective more or less 
flattened, triangular, quadrate or orbicular. Pistils many, free j stylo 
oblong; ovules 2 or more. Ripe carpels berried. — Distrib: — species 
about 35. Tropical Asia and Africa; Australia. 
Section I. Melodorum proper. Outer petals oblong-ovate ; ovaries 
hairy, ovules usually more than 4. Seeds smooth (unknown in H. litseue- 
folium). 
Flowers jiot more than "4 in. long (often 5 
in. in M. futgens), flower-buds broadly pyra- 
mids!. 
Flowers "2 to '25 in. long, in few-flower- 
ed, lax, axillary racemes ; leaves be- 
neath hoary-pubescent with a super- 
ficial layer of flexuose hairs: ovules 4 I. M. litseaefolium. 
Flowers 4 to 5 in. long; solitary, or in 
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