28 MB. D. OLIVER ON ATJRANTIACEjE. 



Limonia retusa (Don. Fl. Nep. Prod. 224), I do not know. It would 

 appear to be an Atalantia from his description. 



4. Mttbbata, Linn. Mantissa, alt. 563 ; DC. Prod. i. 537. 

 Char, emend. Calyx 5-fidus v. partitus. Petala 5, libera (line- 

 ari-oblonga v. obovato-lanceolata) . Stamina 10, libera, alterna 

 breviora ; filainentis lineari-subulatis ; antheris parvis, late 

 ellipticis v. rotundatis. Ovarium in toro brevissimo, elevato, 

 iinpositum, 2-3-5-loculare ; ovulis in loculis solitariis gemina- 

 tisve, superimpositis v. fere collateralibus. Stylus longiusculus, 

 denique basin versus sejungens, stigmate capitato. Bacca 1-2- 

 sperma. Semina testa glabra v. lanata. Cotyledones sequales, 

 planoconvexee. Arbores v. frutices inermes. Folia pinnata. 

 Flores in cymis multifloris, corymbosis, terminalibus, v. pauci- 

 oribus in axillis foliorum superiorum. 



1. M. exotica (L. Mantissa, I. c.) Foliis glabris, 3-8-foliolatis ; calycis 

 lobis triangularibus oblongis v. lineari-oblongis, ovario biloculari, 

 ovulis in loculis geminatis superimpositis v. interdum solitariis. 

 Chalcas, Linn. Mant. 68; Burman. Fl. Ind. 104; Loureiro, Fl. Coch. 



Chin. p. 270. — Marsana, Sonnerat, Voy. tab. 139. 

 a. Floribus in cymis corymbosis multifloris. — M. exotica, DC. Prod. i. 



537 ; Wall. Cat. 6368 ! 

 /3. Floribus majoribus paucioribus, calycis lobis angustioribus. — M.pa- 

 niculata, Jack. Mai. Misc. 1. n. 2. 31 ; DC. Prod. i. 537.— M. Suma- 

 tra™, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 375. Wall. Cat. 6369. 

 Loc. a. Kumaon, 4000 ped ! Strachey & Winterbottom ; Assam ! 

 Hb. Hk. ; Hong Kong! Hb. Benth. ; Loo-choo ! Wright ; China ! Mil' 

 lett ; Java, Zollinger, 129; New Hebrides! Milne, 

 p. Peninsula Ind. or., Hb. Wight.; Ind. bor.-occid! Edgeworth; 



Ceylon ! Gardner, Macrae ; Banjarmassing ! Borneo, Motley. 

 The extreme states of these varieties look very diverse, but they are 

 connected by transitional links, The leaflets vary much in form and size, 

 being lanceolate, ovate, or obovate-lanceolate, and often acuminate. In var. 

 j3, the flowers are sometimes nearly solitary ; while in a, they often form 

 close cymose corymbs. In the Wallichian Herbarium are imperfect speci- 

 mens of a Murraya from Toong Doong, evidently allied to var. /3. of the 

 above, labelled M. elongata. Alph. DeCandolle. The leaflets are shining, 

 acuminate, and 2 to 4 inches in length. The inflorescence would seem 

 to have consisted of few-flowered cymes. It is perhaps but a large-leaved 

 variety of M. exotica. 

 [JAmonia lucida (Forst. Prod. 33). This plant is described " inermis, fo- 

 liis simplicibus, pedunculis axillaribus," and as occurring at Mallicollo. 

 Forster's specimen from that island in the herbarium of the British 

 Museum is clearly Murraya exotica, var. £. There must be some 

 mistake, very probably in the description] 



