VI. ANONACE^. 
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[Ellipeia. 
at length glabrous. Leaves thinly coriaceous, oblong or obovate- 
oblong abruptly shortly acuminate, base rounded or sub-cordate, 
above glabrous light green shining, midrib and nerves tomentose, 
below puberulous or glabrescent; nerves 16 to 19 pairs, conspicuous 
beneath; 4 to 7 in. long, i*5 to 3 in. tomentose. Flowers 75 to 
1 in. across, yellow in short tomentose panicles. Bracts ovate, 
bracteoles round; pedicels -2 5 to *4 in. long. Sepals small, sub- 
orbicular connate below, yellow tomentose. Petals connivent in 
a cone-shaped mass; outer 3 much larger than sepals, round 
pubescent on both sides; inner 3 not much larger than sepals, 
round pubescent outside, glabrous inside. Anthers sessile, short, 
appendages broad round truncate. Carpels numerous, ovoid 
oblique blunt yellow tomentose, stalks long. Seed ovoid. Hab. 
Dense forest. Common. Singapore, Garden Jungle. Malacca 
(Maingay); Tabong (Griffith), Selangor, Semangkok Pass, 2000 to 
3000 ft. altitude (Curtis). Perak, Goping (Kunstler). 
8. CYATHOCALYX, Champ. 
Trees. Leaves glabrous, rather thin. Flowers fascicled, medium 
size to rather large. Sepals united at base. Petals 6, biseriate, 
valvate, bases concave. Stamens indefinite, truncate. Ovaries 
1 to 6; ovules many. Stigma large. Carpels large oblong, many- 
seeded, pericarp thick, woody. Species about 10, Indo-Malaya. 
Flowers small; petals narrow lanceolate-acuminate . . (1) C. virgatus 
Fruit oblong . . . . • • ■ * ( 2 ) C. Maingayi 
( 1 ) C. virgatus King, Journ. As. Soc. Beng . l.c. 28; Ann. Bot. 
Gard. Calc . l.c . 37, pi. 44 - Unona virgata Bl. Bijdr. 14; Bl. FI. 
Jav. Anonacece, 43, t. 19 and 25B. Meiogyne virgata Miq. Ann . 
Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. ii. 12. 
A tree 20 to about 60 ft. tall, nearly glabrous except the flowers. 
Leaves membranous, elliptic-oblong to oblong-lanceolate, light green, 
above glabrous shining, beneath pubescent on the 8 or 9 pairs of 
nerves, 4 to 6-5 in. long, 1-25 to 275 in. wide; petioles -25 to -35 in. 
long, pubescent. Flowers in axillary sub-sessile fascicles of 2 or 3. 
Sepals connate at base, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, tomentose, short. 
Petals tomentose-silky cream colour, tinted with purplish at base, 
eventually widely expanded, outer 75 in. long, lanceolate long- 
acuminate, inner base orbicular concave long-acuminate -5 in. 
long. Stamens purplish, appendages short, obliquely truncate. 
Pistils 4 to 6,' hairy. Torus conic truncate pubescent. Carpels 
1 or 2, divergent, oblong-ovoid blunt at both ends, tomentose 
black, 2 to 3 in. long, 1 to 1-5 in. through. Seeds 8 to 10, elongate, 
sub-reniform. Hab. In woods, often by streams, usually a small 
tree with slender twiggy branches. Singapore, Bukit Timah. 
Malacca (Maingay). Perak, Larut (Kunstler). Penang. Dislrib. 
Java. 
