154 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GAEDEN, CALCUTTA
PLATE 201 A. Phseantlms audamanicus, King. 1, Flowering branch; 2, ripe carpels;
3, seeds; 4, sepals aud andro-gyncecium—of natural size; 5, inner petals; 6 & 7, anthers;
8 & 9, pistils—enlarged.
4, Pn.EiNTHUs MALABAEicus, Beddome Ic. PL hid. Or., t. 36. A shrub or small tree;
young parts rusty-tomeatose. Leaves oblong-Ian ceolatc, shortly and rather abruptly
acuminate, the base rounded or cordate; both surfaces glabrous except the midrib on
the lower; main nerves 7 to 9 pairs, faint, spreading, the reticulations minute; length
4 to 7 in., breadth 1 to 2 in.; petiole '15 io., pubescent. Fhioers solitary, extraaxillary
or axillarv, '5 to '75 in. in diam. ; pedicels -So to '5 in., with 2 minute
basal bracteoles. Sepals orbicular-ovate, acute, rusty-tomentose, spreading. Outer petals
like the sepals, but about twice as large; inner red, thick and fleshy, ovate, acute,
with slightly inflesed tips, connivoiit, more than twice as large as the outer. Ovaries
numerous; ovules 1 or 2. Fruit unknown.
Collected only by Colonel Beddome. By its rather large outer petals this forms
a connecting link with Mlliusa.
South India: in Southern "Wynaad,—i?cc?<7ome.
PLATE 201B. Phieanthus malabaricus, Bedd. 1, Flowering branch ; 2, flower
unexpanded ; 3, flower expanded; 4, sepals and andro-gyncecium; 7, inner petal—o/
natural size; 6, sepal; 6, outer petal; 8 & 9, anthers; 10, pistil; 11 & 12, sections
of pistil—ffnZar^iiZ. {Copied from Beddome's Ic. PI. Ind. Dr., t. 36.)
23. Miliusa, Lesehenault.
Trees or slu-ubs. Flowers usually bi-sesual (dicDcious or polygamous in sp. 1), green
or red, axillary or extra-axillary, solitary, fascicled or cymose. Sepals 3, small, valvate.
Petals 6, valvate in 2 series; outer smaller, like the sepals; the inner tlun, cohering
•when young by the margins, at length free. Tonis elongated, cylindiic. Stamens definite
or indefinite. Anthers subdidymous; cells contiguous, ovoid, extrorse; connective more
or less apiculate. Ovaries indefinite, linear-oblong; style oblong or very short; ovules
1—2 rarely 3—4. Ripe carpels globose or oblong, 1- or 2- or many-seeded.—Distrib.
Species »; all Indian.
Flowers diceciom or polygamous 1. M. Roxburghiana.
Flowers 1
Leaves more or less glal)rouB.
Flower pedicels 1'25 to 1-75 in. long; carpels oblong, -6 in.
long, blunt, their stalks shorter than the carpels; nerves of
leaves S or 9 pairs
Flower pedicels 1 to 1-25 in. long; carpels globular or ovoid,
•4 to -5 in. long, muoroaate, their stalks "3 to "5 i n . ; nerves
of leaves 9 pairs
Flower pedicels -5 to 1'5 in. long; carpels globose, -4 in. in
diam., mucronate ; stalks '35 i n . ; nerves of leaves 7 pairs
2. M. macrocarpe.
. M. Wightiam
ANONACE^ OF BKITISH INDIA.
Flower pedicels -5 to -75 in. long; carpels ovoid-globose, -25
to -3 in. in diam.; their stalks -75 to 1 i n . ; nerves of leaves
12 pairs 5. IT. longipe».
Flower pedicels '4 to -5 in., decurved; carpels ovoid, nearly "5
iu. long, sub-sessile; nerves of leaves 7 pairs 6, J i . Zeylankn.
Flower pedicels -25 to '35 in. long; carpels globose-ovoid, subsesBilo;
nerves of leaves 5 or 6 pairs 7. M. indici.
Leaves aud whole plant densely tomentose 8. Jf. velutim.
1. MILIUSA ROXBURGHIANA, Rook. fil. ^ Thovis. Fl. Ind. 150. A small tree; young
branches softly pubescent, ultimately glabrous striate and pale. Leaves thinly coriaceous,
oblong or oblong-lanceolate, shortly acuminate, the base rounded; upper surface glabrous,
the lower sparsely adpressed-pubescent to tomentose; main nerves about 10 pairs,
spreading, inter-arching -15 in. from the edge; length 2'5 to 4 in., breadth '85 to
1-4 in. ; petiole -OS in., pubescent. Pedicels 1 to 3 together, axillary, slender, -5 to 1'5
in. long, sometimes on a short peduncle; bracteoles several, linear. Flotoers dicecions
or polygamous, about '5 in. long. Sepals and outer petals sub-equal, lanceolato or linear,
rusty-tomentose. Inner petals -5 to -6 in. long, ovate or oblong-lanceolate, sub-acute,
nerved, red. Stamens in male flower numerous, with obliquely truncate broad apices.
Ovaries (in female flower) oblong, glabrous ; style oblong ; ovules 1 or 2. Ripe carpels
ovoid or oblong, blunt, glabrous, granular, -25 to -35 in. iu diam. ; stalk '4 in. long,
slender. See^is 1, rarely 2. Sook. fil. FL Br. Ind. i, 87; Kurz For. Fl. Burm. i.
47; King m Journ. As. Soc. Bengal 61, pt. 2, 123.—M. "WalHehiana, H. f ^ T. I.e.
149.—M. tristis, Eurs For. Fl. Burm. i. 47.—Uvaria dioica, Rozb. Fl. Ind. ii. 659,-
Phcnanthus dioicus, Kurz in Flora liii. (1870) 274.—Guattcria globosa, A. DC. Mem. Soc.
Gencv. v. 43; Wall. Cat. 6448.—Hyalostemma Roxburghiana, Wall. Cat. 6434; Grilf.
Ic. PI. Ind. Or. 17. t. 653.
Sikkim-Himalaya ; Assam Hill ranges up to 4,000 feet; Chittagong Hills; Burma;
Singapore.
Kurz's species M. tristis (For. Flora Burma i. 47) appears to be a form of this
with larger leaves and flowers than usual. The only specimens of it extant are veiy
poor; and better material may show it to be, as Kurz thought, a distinct species.
Accoi-ding to M. Pierre, his Cambodian species M. mollis (Fl. Forest. Cocli.-Chine,
t. 40) is closely allied to M. Roxhurrihiana. The same author's species M. campanulata
(I.e. t. 41) is also allied to M. Roxburghiana aud to if. macroearpa.
PLATE 189B. Miliusa Roxburghiana, S. /. ^ T. 1, Flowering branch ; 2, ripe
carpels—of natural size ; 3, flower dissected ; 4, anthers ; 5, seeds—enlarged.
2. MILIDSA MACEOOAEPA, Ilooh. fil. ^ Thorns. Fl. Ind. 150. A small tree; young
branches glabrous, dark-coloured, puberulous, striate, the older lenticellate. Leaves
membranous, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, sometimes slightly oblanceolate, acuminate, the
base acute; upper surface dull, glabrous except the minutely puberulous midrib; the lower
paler, glabrous, the midrib sometimes muriculate; main nerves 8 to 11 pairs, rather
prominent beneath, in old leaves foiTning wide inter-marginal arches ; length 4-5 to 7 in.,
breadth 1'5 to 22 in.; petiole -15 in. Flowers on long pedicels, extra-axillary, often leafopposed,
solitarj", or in few-flowered, often sub-terminal, cymes; pedicels glabrescent.
Axs. EOY. BOT. GAED. CALCUTTA TOL. IY.