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very distinct reticulations; the neiTes in 20-28 pairs, not much more 
prominent than the secondary nerves. The flowers are solitary and 
terminal, when fully opened 10 cm. in diameter ; sepals greenish below, 
cream-coloured above ; the petals white, the outer larger than the sepals ; 
the column of ovaries exceeds the stamens. The ripe fruit is almost 
globose, rounded at the apex and very stout ; in shape and size very 
like that of Anona squamosa ; the individual carpels are much compressed 
laterally ; external surface diamond-shaped ; short blunt beaks ; external 
measurement 2 cm. x 2 cm. taken from mesial carpels ; dehiscing dorsally ; 
the line of dehiscence is marked at a very early stage , (long before 
maturity) by a deep but narrow sinus extending the whole length of 
the carpel ; nothing, of this kind is seen in the fruits of its two nearest 
allies ; the dorsal kurface of the carpel is smooth and shows none of the 
lenticular markings of M, insignis and M. Caveana. The number of 
seeds in each carpel is variable, sometimes one, more fre'^uently two 
or three, occasionally four ; ovules on an average six. The chief dis- 
tinction between this species and its congeners lies in the fruit which 
dijffers in size and shape and in the form of the in dividual carpels. 
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Order— -ANOX ACEdE, 
Melodoruiii minuticalyx MacGregor et Smith, sp. nov. 
Species Melodoro verrucoso H. f. & T. affinis ; sed floribus fasci- 
culatis, calyce minutiore distinguenda. 
Frutex scandens ; rami juniores minute rufo-tomentosi, mox glabres- 
centes, ienticellati. Folia usque ad 15 cm. longa, ad 6 cm. lata, 
coriacea, oblonga, acuta, vix vel breviter acuminata, basi rotundata, 
1-1*5 cm, petiolata ; lamina supra minute reticulata, glabra, costa rufo- 
pul)escente excepta, infra minute molliterque tomentosa, nervis 14-18 
paribus.' Flores 1*2 cm. longi (gemmae pyramidales), 4-12 aggregati ; 
ramulus contractus, 3-4 mm. longus, folio-oppositus vel non, (flores 
terminales non vidi ) ; pedicelli 1*5-2 cm. longi, minute tomentosi, 1-2 
bracteolis 1 mm. longis ovatis prope basin instructi. Sepala 2-3 mm. 
longa, ovata, triangularia, basi connata. Fetala exteriora 1*2 cm. longa, 
flava, suaveolentia, coriacea, ovato-lanceolata, extus minute rufo-tomen- 
tosa, intus pubescentia ; petala interior a (‘xtus pubescentia, intus glabra. 
Stamina multa, brevia. Ovaria ± 10, sericea, stigmate glabro. Fructus 
ignotus. 
