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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, 1*25 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. Unona mucrantha, Kara, in Andam. Report, Ed. 
I, App. B, I : Pyramid nnthe mncrantha, Kurz. 1. o. Ed. 2, p. 29. 
S. Andaman ; Kurz, King's Collector. 
In some of its characters, (e. ,7., 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 elougated outer petals, it approaches the Dasymasch- 
afon section of Unona ; but the fewness of its ovales 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. prtsrnaticitm 
{Pyramidanthe, rufa, Miq.), On the whole therefore, I think, it best to 
leave this plant in the genus to which Kurz finally referred it. 
13. Melodokum eleqans, Hook. fil. and Thorns. FL Ind. 122. A 
large climber i young branches slender, pnberulous at first, ultimately 
glahnuis, dark-coloured. Leaves thinly coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate 
acuminate, slightly narrowed to the rounded base: upper surface oliva- 
ceous when dry, glabrous : lower paler, puberalous, minutely reticulate, 
the 12 or 13 pairs of main nerves spreading, faint ; length 2 5 to 3 5 in., 
breadth 1 to 125 in., petiole '25 to 3*5 in. Flowers axillary, solitary or 
2 or 3 in a fascicle, 35 to '65 in. long : pedicels slender, '35 to '6 in. long 
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, "I in. long. Petals leathery, the outer 
broadly ovate, sometimes minutely ovato-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- 
colls ; apical process of connective short, thick, obliquely triangular. 
Ovaries narrowly oblong, glabrous, with 8 ovules in 2 rows: style short, 
lateral. Ripe 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. 
Uvaria elegans, Wall. Cat. 6474A. 
This is closely allied to M.fulgens, H. f. and T. ; but its flowers have 
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