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XXIII. GUTTiFER^. (T. Andersoii.) 



\^3fesnu. 



n* luenns c nfined to the small-flowered states from S. India, to which the name of coro- 

 luandel'ana has been applied ; the latter is a small and distinct-looking form. 



. Tbwaitesil, Planch dc Trian, Mem, GuUif. 277 ; leaves linear- 



M. speciosa var. a, Tliwam 



2. 



oblong acute or acuminate, flowers subsessile. 



Eanm, 50, not of Choisy, 



Banks of streams in the Ratnapoora district, Ceylon, Thivaites, 



A tree reseinblfng M.ferna, but distinguished by the form of the leaves and large 



5sile or subsessile flowers. Leaves 8-12 by 1 1-2 in., base acute, glaucous and laintiy 



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sessi 



nerved beneath. 



Flowers nearly 4 in. diam., axillary, solitary or ui pairs 



3, M.? lepidota, T. Anders.-, leaves elliptic- or oblong-lanceolate 

 acuminate, racemes terminal. 



Eastern Peninsula ; Malacca, Griffith (distrib. Kew, No. 845, named M. specwsa 

 by error). ^ . v fU 



Branches short, rather slender, terete. Leaves coriaceou'^y 24-3^ by 1-14 '"•» \]Z 

 cuspidate, tapering to the obtuse base; veins very numerous, close set, nne, eq J 

 ftiint on both surfaces. Flowers unknown. Frvit size of a chestnut, subglobose, poin^ , 

 subtended by the thickened obtuse sepals, valves thick, surface rutrulose as it sc y- 

 JSefd sv'ith a brown brittle testa.— Probably a new genus between Kayea and Mtt>ua, 

 on account of the small woody non-accrescent sepals. 



6. PCECIXiONEVROir, Beddome. 



(W, T. Thiseltou Dyer.) 



Trees. Leaves opposite, smooth, coriaceous, with close-set spreading lat^^ 

 ins, minutely reticulated. Flowers yellowish-white, in a terminal P^" ^' 



" or solitary at each node. Sepals 4-5, small, imbricate,' Petals 5-6, contorted. 



' slightly connate at the has 



linear, erect. Ovary 2-celL , . rnt)mr^ 



stigmas pun'ctiform ; ovules 2 in each cell, ascending from the base. /^% ^ 



:, with a single erect seed, albumen ; cotyieaou- 



or solitary at each node. Sepals 4-5, small, imbricate. Petals o-o, Y^'^jl q. 

 Stamens numerous, free or slightly connate at the base, filaments sliort i 

 anthers basifixed, narrow-linear, erect. Ovary 2-celled ; styles 2, ^^" i' 



, ... .X. c..^u ^cii. ascendins from the base, tapm^ 



ovuid, 1-celled, septicidal'?, 

 fleshy; radicle minute, inferior. —Distkib. S. India'; species 2 



1. P. indlcum, Bedd, in Journ, Linn. Soc. viii. 267, ^' ^^/' 

 SylvaL t. 3; flowers in a pyramidally spreading terminal panicle 4 in 

 sepals and petals each 5, anthers lobulated. 



Western Peninsula ; on the west slopes of the Ghats, from South Canarft to 

 bar, alt 3-4000 feet., Beddome. 



. long, 



ioleJ. 



Leaves 4-10 by ] 4-24 in., elliptic, with a long acummatlon, peji^^^^^ 



, ^ , sepals slightly puberuious. Flowers | m. diam., ; 



white. Fruit ellipsoid. 



2. P. pauciflorum, Bedd. Flor. Sijlvat. t. 93 ; flowers about 4 J^^^^r, 

 and terminal or solitary at each node, sepals 4 the 2 innermost ^o 

 petals 6, anthers simple. 



VVesteks Peninsula ; Travancor, alt. 4-5000 ft., Beddome. , p /^fo oW^"?' 



A tree with red wood. Leaves about 5 by 1 4 in., narrowly elliptic, ^f^^ ^^i]iQX 



obtuse. Fruit 1 in. long, 4 in. diam., at first obpyritbrm, finally ovoid » ^,^ 



smaller than in P, indlcum, = s;:^ 



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