80 vi. anonace^e. [OxymUra. 
Cantley). Perak, Larut Hills (Kunstler). Distrib. Southern Siam. 
Native name: Akar Larak. 
(2) O. fornicata Hook. fit. F.B.I. i. 71; var. glabra. 
Branches slender, nearly glabrous. Leaves oblong; base narrow, 
blunt, tip cuspidate, glabrous; nerves 13 pairs, slender; 6 in. 
long, 175 to 2 in. wide; petioles '2 in. long. Flowers very short 
pedicelled, extra-axillary. Sepals ovate ribbed hairy. Petals, 
outer ones flat lanceolate golden-silky, inner triangular-ovate. 
Fruit oblong, *5 in. long. Hab. In forests, not common. Penang ; 
Fig. 8.—Oxymitra filipes. 
in Herb. Kew (probably Phillips). Pulau Adang (Ridley). Dis- 
trib. Silhet, Assam, Cambodia. 
This plant is remarkable in the genus for its narrow leaves. I have only 
seen two specimens of the Penang plant, one in fruit, the other in young 
flower. King refers the former to O. affinis, which it is not. I believe it to 
be a form of O. fornicata , a native of Assam, Mergui and Cambodia. 
( 3 ) O. filipes Hook. fit. F.B.I. i. 171; King, Journ. .ds. Soc. 
Beng. lx. 99. 
BrancMets velvety-tomentose. Leaves membranous oblong- 
lanceolate slightly obovate acute (or acuminate), base sub-cordate, 
above glabrous or pubescent, beneath sub-glaucous pubescent; 
