Popowiai] 
VI. ANONACEJE. 
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outer ones at first much shorter, later sub-equal to the inner 
ones. Male flowers; stamens numerous, appendages truncate, 
pistils o. Female, stamens fewer; pistils 10, pubescent, i-ovuled. 
Carpels 4 to 5, sub-cylindric tapering to both ends, 75 in. long, 
*25 in. through, granular-strigose; stalks '15 in. long, tomentose; 
torus very small. Seed solitary. Hab. In forests, not common. 
Selangor, near Klang Gates. Negri Sembilan, Bukit Tampin 
(Robinson). Perak, Ulu Bubong and Chanderiang (Kunstler). 
21 . OXYMITRA, Bl. 
Climbers woody, usually slender, red-tomentose. Leaves oblong 
obovate large, glaucous beneath. Flowers, leaf-opposed or extra- 
axillary, moderately large; buds conic. Sepals 3, valvate, connate 
at base. Petals 6, valvate in 2 series, outer ones long, flat or 
triquetrous narrow, connivent, coriaceous, usually yellow, inner 
ones much smaller, ovate-lanceolate or oblong or narrow, connivent. 
Stamens many, linear-oblong, truncate; anther-cells dorsal, remote. 
Ovaries oblong, strigose; style oblong. Ovules 1 or 2, sub-basal. 
Carpels stalked, i-seeded. Species 30, Asia and Africa. 
Outer petals fiat. 
Leaves broad, elliptic .... 
Leaves narrow, sub-glabrous 
Outer petals concave. 
Pedicels long, slender .... 
Pedicels very short. 
Leaves large, obovate. 
Sepals elliptic, nearly half as long as petals 
Sepals very small, sub-orbicular . 
Leaves oblong-elliptic not obovate. 
Outer petals broad .... 
Outer petals narrow, linear-lanceolate . 
(1) 0. affinis 
(2) 0. fornicata 
(3) 0. filipes 
(4) 0. calycina 
(5) 0. latifolia 
(6) 0. biglandulosa 
(7) 0. glauca 
(1) O. affinis Hook. fil. F.B.I. i. 70; King, Journ. As. Soc. 
Beng. Lc. 98; Ann. Bot. Gard. Calc, lx., pi. i68a. 
Climber; branchlets rusty-tomentose. Leaves sub-coriaceous, 
oblong-elliptic or slightly obovate acute or shortly acuminate, 
base round, above glabrous except the midrib pubescent on both 
sides, beneath glaucous pubescent especially on midrib and promi¬ 
nent nerves 8 to 14 pairs, 3*5 to 10 in. long, 1*25 to 4’5 in. wide; 
petioles -3 in. long, tomentose. Flowers solitary on pedicels *25 
to ‘45 in. long, yellow. Sepals slightly connate at base, broad 
ovate, sub-acute, pubescent, -5 in. long. Petals flat, very unequal; 
outer ones thinly coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate sub-acute, pubescent 
on both sides, i‘5 to 175 in. long, *4 to ‘6 in. wide; inner ones 
thickly coriaceous, ovate sub-acute, -5 in. long, pubescent outside. 
Carpels cylindric blunt pubescent, -5 to ‘8 in. long, -3 in. through; 
stalks pubescent, ‘2 in long, Seeds 1. Hab. Lowland forests. 
Singapore, Bukit Timah. Malacca, Selandor, etc. (Maingay, 
