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^ayea] xxiii, guttifer^. (T. Anderson.) 277 



bracteolate* 



Southern districts of Ceylon, Thtvaites. 



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Alarge glabrous tree; bark dark-grey; brancblets terete, rfeddish. Leaves 2-3 by 

 H in., ngid; veins arched, very faint on both surfaces; petiole i-{ in., slender. 

 m^mes from the upper axils, bracteoles subulate. Mowers small. Stamens many, 

 luaments capillary, persistent, exceeding the sepals, i^rwi^ the sfze of a small chestnut, 

 covered by the coriaceous accrescent calyx, tipped by the thickened short style. 



*. K. nervosa, T. Anders. ; leaves elliptic-oblong or oblong-lanceolate 



Uif. 



xillary or terminal. Mesua 



^Texa88erim provinces, at Mergui and Mai-taban, Griffith^ Parish. Malacca, 

 loimg branches minutely tubercled, 8ub-4-angular? Leaves 4-5 by 14-2 in., thin. 



1. uuter sepals ± in., ti 



^ - Petals cuneate-obovate. ^ ..^.,.^,..» ^«^ j, — - 



^tyle slender, thickened after flowerings stigma deeply 4-cleft 



5. MESttA, Liim. 



innnm^' kf ^^^^^ opposite, rigidly coriaceous, often peTlucid-dotted ; veins 

 mnn^ i^ ' ^^^y slender, at right angles to the midrib. Flowers poly>,'a- 

 imbri ^f ^^^^^'^Pli^^^ Jite, large, axillary, solitary. Sepals and Petals 4 each, 

 basp fV ^^'^^^ very numerous, filaments filiform free or connate at tbe 

 stvlp 1 ^^^^^,^s ^rect, oblong, 2-'celled, debiscence vertical. Ovary 2-celled ; 

 and i ^^' ^ ^^"^^ V^^td^tQ y ovules 2 in each cell, erect. Fruit between fleshv 

 1-4- JpT/' V^^'^^^ ^y ^^^^ absorption of the septum, at length 4-valved, 

 3 species^ ^^^^ without an aril, testa fragile.— Distkib. Tropical Asia ; 



acutp^' ferrea, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. \. 562 ; leaves drooping linear-lanceolate 

 Trin.ru^'^}^}^^^^ peduncles short stout. Chois. Gutiif. Ind. 40 ; Planch, jt 

 Car4«5'"'T^-"'/'>*- 2' 1 J ^<'^^- Fl. Ind. ii. 605; W. & A. Prodr. 102; Wall. 

 M \Z^^' ^\\9ht III. \27, Ic. t. 118; Beddome Flor. Sylvat. Gen. xxiii. 



C'cii S."'^'/^r- '"^ ^^- l-<^-; G^W- I^^d- 40; WigM Ic. t. 961; WaU. 

 Hcomm' r^'^«»^ ^•'^. xxiii. M. pedunculata WigM lU. 127, let. 119. 

 M. RoS'^^.^.liaiia, RV*^ /^/. 129, /c. t. 117; ^«Mo»i« Flor. Sylvat t. 64. 

 I'i'Af ^ f , "'„ ^^*-'^''*' ^-^^^ 127 ; BeMome I.e. xxiii. M. saliciua, M. Walkenana 

 ^Wi.F *i '^^^^' ^'^«"^^- ^ ^^'^M- ^.c- 373, 374, and 379. M. scleropliylla, 

 ^<it n1i ■■^- 407 ; Beddome I.e. xxiii. ^l Nagana, Gard. in Cak. Joani. 



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^E«ms'pp°^ Eastern Bengal, the Eastern Himalaya, and the Eastern and 

 \.A midJlin •'*^H^*^' '*"<1 Andaman Islands; cultivated elsewhere in India. 

 We* 3-fi F""f , S'*'"'ous tree ; trunk erect, straight ; twigs slender, 8ub-4-angled 

 *''fe or le^ I-\^^'^ ^ i i"-. l^ase acute or rounded, dark-green and shining above covered; 

 *«aous on Vll ^"^ ^*^y meal beneath ; veins very fine, close-set, and eoually incon- 

 f"<J solitarv n • '"•'"*°<^« ; petiole |-i ip. jPfo«;era f-S in. diara., usually terminal 

 ■"fgest D "V" P*''"''- '^'"^ orbicular, thick, with membranous margins, inner pair 

 ^''^J^^n-yelin!;"^ 4, spreading, cuneate-obovate, pure white. Anthers large oblong, 

 ^'* Eurro^n^' ^ , "'* ovoid, conical-pointed, size variable, often of a large chestnut; 

 ^^ ^en v"?f > t^e persistent sepals, l-4-8eeded. Seeds dark-brown", testa smooth. 



■'/"riaWe plant, the absence of the pruinose under-Burface of tbe leaves is by 



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