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1 0 0 ANNALS OP THE BOYAL BOTANIC GAEDEN, CALCUTTA.
the base cuneato; both surfaces pale (when dry), obscurely reticulate; main nerves
14 to 18 pairs, spreading, straight, slender and Tery slightly prominent ei-en when
dry; length 4-5 to 9 in., breadth 1-25 to 2 in.; petiole -2 to -2.5 in. Fhwm solitary,
slightly supra-axillary; pedicels slender, decurved, minutely bracteolate, -35 in. (elongated
to -75 in. in fruit). Sepals membranous, slightly nerved and reticulate, ovate, acuminate,
spreading or recurved, pubcrulous outside, -2 in. long, persistent. Felah sub-coriaceous,
greenish-yellow, puberalous ; the outer narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, the bases thickened
and not narrowed to a claw, (55 to -To in, long; inner petals about half as long, ovate,
acuminate. Antken numerous, half as long as the ovaries, compressed, their apices with
a long thin point from a broad base. Oimrits about 20, narrowly cylindric, hairy
like the stout straight style, 1- to 2-ovuled; sti.gma truncate. c^rpeU narrowly
obovoid to oblong, apiculate, gradually tapering to the stalk, glabrous, -6 in. long.
Seeds usually 1, rarely 2, oblong.
Perak: at low elevations, very common,—IFi-oy, SeortecMni, King's CoUeetor.
Pi.iTB 142. Goniothalamus Wrayi, King. 1, Flowering branch; 2, leaf from another
specimen; 3, flower dissected; 4, ripe carpels; 5, sepals and andro-gynoecium; 6, inner
petals—0/ natural size; 7, anthers; 8, pistils—CTiai-jieii.
27. GoNloTHAj-Ajlua UVAEIOIDES, King in Joum. As. Soe. Bengal 61, pi. 2, 78. A
shrub 8 to 15 feet high; all parts glabrous except the flower and fruit; young branches
pale, leaves thinly coriaccous, oblong, slightly obovate, .slightly narrowed to the minutely
cordate base; both surfaces rather dull when dry, the loivcr pale brown, the edges
slightly recurved; main nerves 23 to 2.5 pairs, spreading, rather straight, mter-arclnng
near the margin; length W to 15 in., breadth 3 to 6 in ; petiole -4 in., stout, channelled.
Flowers on the trunk (solitary?); pedicels curved, stout, Sa in. long. Sepals
coriaceous, semi-orbicular, blunt, pubescent, 2 in. long. Pelals very eoriaccous, yellow;
tho outer broadly lanceolate, thickened and ti-uncate at the base, rufous-pubescent,
in lono-; inner petals liko the outer, but with contracted bases and only 1 to 1-2 m.
long. "Inthers with conical apices. Omnes hairy; style eylmdric; stigma small, truncate,
minutely bifid. Ripe carpels oblong, tapering to each end, puberulous, I'o in. long and
•63 in in diam.; stalks -7 in; long. Seeia 4, compresscd, rugose, -J in. long.
Perak: Ulu S l i m , — O o l l e c t m - No. 10664. Ulu Bubong,—A'l»/« CoUeetor
No 10126. D i s t r i b . — B o r n e o , - N o . 960.
' Motley's Borncan specimen above quoted is in flower only; but it so entirely
resembles in leaves and wood those of my Collector in Perak, which arc in fi-uit only,
that I have vcntm-ed not only to consider them as belonging to the same spec.es, but to
draw up the above description of the flowers from the liornean and of tho fruit from
the Perakian spechnens. The species resembles 0. fulvus in leaves and flower and 0.
mala„anus in flower. The fruit is more hkc that of a Vvaria than of a OoniotMamu,,
liaviug 4, sub-horizontal, inagose seeds.
P l a t e 143. Goniothakmus nvarioides, Kmg. 1, Leaf twig; 2, flower dissected
and tlie inner petals removed; 3, inner petals; 4, ripe carpels; 5, section of ripe
carpel-o/ natural size; 6, anthers; 7, pistils-rate»
There are in the Herbarium, Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta, specimens m young
finit of a Goniothalamus which in leaf resembles G. GriffitMi and G. malayanus, but they
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are too imperfect for description. Thsre are also, but too incomplete for description
and for figuring, specimens of a fine species collected in Malacca by Mr. Deny (Herb.
No. 100).
16. Orophea, Biume.
Trees or shrubs. Flowers usually small, axillary, solitary, fascicled or cyniose.
Sepah 3, valvate. Petals 6, valvate, in two series; outer ovate; inner clawed, usually
cohering by their margins into a mitriform cap; sometimes oblong and slightly
approximate below tho middle, the apices divergent, not vaulted; rarely without claws,
and in one species slightly imbricate. Stamens definite, 6 — 12, ovoid, fleshy; anthcrcells
dorsal, large, contiguous; the connective sometimes prolonged into a conical apical
point, not trancate. Staminodes 0, or 3 to 6. Ovaries 3—15; style short or 0; ovules
4. Ripe carpels 1- or more-seeded, globular or oblong (very long in several species).
Distrib.—Species about 25,—all Eastern Asiatic.
Intermediate between Mitrcphora and Boeagea, having the perianth of the foi-nicr
aud stamens of the latter.
Inner petals distinctly vaulted, the limbs coherent fcy their thickened edges.
Stamens 12.
Carpels globose.
Peduncles 1-flowered.
Flowers unisexual 1. 0. sttosa.
Plowers hermaphrodite 2. 0. uniftura.
Peduncles 2- to 3-flowered 3. 0. Thomsoni.
Carpels oblong 4. 0. evythrocarpa.
Stamens 6.
Leaves glabrous at all ages (see also No. 10) o. 0. KaiackalHca.
Leaves more or less pubescent (except No. lOj.
Bipe carpels globose.
Leaves 3-5 t o 4 5 in. long and with 8 or 9 pairs of main
nerves 6. 0. hirsuia.
Leaves 2'5 to 3-2d in, long and with o or 6 pairs of
nerves 7.0. zeylanica.
H'Tje carpels oblong.
Carpels under 2 in. in length.
Flowers -8 in. loug; nerves of leaves 11 to 13 pairs . 8. 0. Bmndhii.
Flowers -35 in. long; nerves of leaves 7 to i> pairs . 9. 0. hexandra.
Coxpels 3 to 5 in. long.
Leaves quite glabrous; main nerves 6 or 7 pairs . . 10. 0. entcrocarpa.
Leaves puberulous beneath; main nerves 10 to 12
pairs 11. 0. macuhln.
Innoi- petals slightly vaulted, tiapezioid 12. 0. iirncHi&.