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rufous-toraentose, with I large bractcole above the middle and several 
smaller near the base. Sepals quite connate into a flat, obtusely 3-angled 
disk, 3 in. broad, pubescent outside, glabrous and tubercled inside. 
Petals very thiok : the outer linear-lanceolate, 1"5 to '2 in, long, trique- 
trous, rufous-tomentose outside, puberulous inside : the inner thinner 
and only about '3 in. long, triangular, ridged outside, much excavated 
and glabrous, at the base inside, otherwise puberulous. Stamens numer- 
ous, with very short filaments, anthers linear, apex of connective ob- 
liquely triangular. Ovaries elongate, oblong, tapering to the apex, 
shortly pubescent; ovules about 14, in 2 rows ; style short, lateral; 
stigma sub-capitate, lobuluto. Ripe carpels ovoid, blunt, tuberculate, 
puberulous, becoming sub-glabrous, 14 in. long and '8 in. in diam. : 
stalks '8 to I in., stout. Seeds in 2 rows, horizontal compressed, oval, 
black, shining. Hook. til. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 81 ; Miq. PI. Ind. Bat. I, 
Pt. 2, 36. Pyramidanthe rufa, Miq. Aun. Mas. Lugd. Bat. II, 39. 
Uvaria r«/a, Wall. Cat. G455. Oxymitra bassuefolia t Teysra, and Bmuin. 
in Tijdsch. Ned. Ind. XXV, (1863;, 419. 
Permute Malacca, Porak, Singapore: common. Distrib. : Borneo. 
Authentic specimens both of Pyramidanthe ruja and of Oxymitra 
bassitefolia % T. and B. shew that they unmistakably belong to this species. 
Specimens of the former from Bangka and from the Bnitenzorg Botanic 
Garden have, however, their leaves rather more hairy beneath than is 
usual in Perak specimens and their flowers are also rather longer. 
12. Melodorum macranthum, Knrz in Joura. As, Soc. Bengal, 
1872, Pt. n, 291 ; 1874, Pt. II, 56 ; F. Flora Burma, I, 42. A small tree : 
all parts except the young leaf-buds and the flower glabrous j young 
branches dark- col oured, rather slender. Leaves membranous, elliptic- 
oblong, sometimes slightly obovate, shortly and abruptly acuminate, tho 
base cuneate ; upper surface shining, the lower dull ; main nerves 12 to 
16 pairs, faint and much more prominent than tho secondary, forming 
a double set of intra-margiual arches: length 6 to 8 in., breadth 2*5 to 
3*5 in., petiole "3 to 4 in. Flowers solitary, axillary or from tho 
branches below tlie leaves, 3 to 5 in. long, drooping; pedicels '5 to 75 
in. long, obscurely bracteolate at the base only. Sepals broadly ovate, 
sub-acute, coriaceous, pubeseeut at the edges inside, glabrous outside, 
connate for half their length, "45 in. long. Petals greenish- white, becom- 
ing yellowish, coriaceous ; narrowly linear-lanceolate, acuminate, the 
outer row flat, adpressed- puberulous with a glabrous patch at the base 
inside, 3 to 5 in. long; the innor row only 1 to 1"25 in. long, cohering 
by their edges, vaulted at the base and with a glabrous patch | the limb 
keeled inside, puberulous on both surfaces. Stamens numerous, the 
anther-ceils linear, elongate; apical process of connective narrowly tri- 
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