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352 XXVI. MALVACE^. (Maxwell T. Masters.) [Boschia. 



more in each cell, ascending. FruU oblong, 3-5-celled, 3-5-valved, valves 

 muricate, bright red. Seeds few, oblong black, with a fleshy oranse- 

 colonred, cup-shaped arillus extending over half their surface ; cotyledons 

 amygdaloid; radicle next the hilum,— Distkib. Malay Peninsula ana 

 archipelago. Species 2. ■; 



1. B. Griffithii, Mast.; leaves ovate oblong cuspidate penniveined 

 scaly beneath, flowers solitary or 2-3 in short axillary cymes. Heteropyxis, 



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Malacca, Griffith^ Maingay, t 



A small tree, hark grey, wood reddish. Leaves 3-4 by H-2 in., glabrons above, 

 white and sparingly lepidote beneath ; petiole short. Stipules linear, caducous. ^^^^L 

 very short. Bracteoles 2-3, deciduous. Flowers J in. diam. Cali/x 4-partea, seg- 

 ments ultimately reflexed. Petals linear-spathulate, variable in number, longer tua 

 the calyx. Anthers minnte. Ovary covered with spines, each tipped by a ^^ ' ■ 

 stelliform scale. Fruit about 2 in. JSeed | in., solitary in each cell. 



21. MEZSSIA, Blume. 







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Trees. Branches marked with large leaf-scars. Leaves entire, ^^^*^^[' 

 veined. Stipules leaiy. Inflorescence of cymes produced from ^^^^ !^i 

 the axils of the fallen leaves. Bracteoles 3, connate into a campanulate tuoe, 

 circumsciss and deciduous, covered, like the sepals, with peltate sea 

 Calt/z closed, ultimately dilated and cushion-shaped at the base, ^}?^^^ 

 cmucal above, opening by a circular irregularly crenulate orifice at the i l- 

 Fdals 5, free, imbricate. Stamens in 5 bundles, alternate with the pW 

 each dividing midway into numerous filaments, the terminal or c^"^™.V , 

 of which bears a 2-lobed and the lateral filaments a 1-lobed extrorse aniflj^ 

 opening lengthwise, connective thick ; staminodes 0. Ovai-y very slion > 

 stalked, oblung, 5-celled ; style short ; stigma conic ; ovules »""^f 'f. n^ 

 seriate, horizontal, anatropous. Fruit ovoid, woody, muricate, 1^^^^ ..^^ 

 5-valved. Seeds albumhious ; aril 0; cotyledons flat, leafy, (iruit an 

 seed after Blume.J— Distrib. Two species, a Javanese and Malaccan. 



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Pexaxg, Maingay. . g 



Alolty tree, trunk stout. Leaves 9-12 by 4-5 in., cordate-oblong, o^*"®^* ^^Vj^^l^lout! 

 minutely puberulous ; petiole 2 in. Stipules oblong, I-nerved, H m. "•^^". ^, , r ,rm 

 angular. Fruit of Durian, (Maingay).- This differs from Blume's N.altissima in ni ^ 

 ot the leaf and particularly in the stamens, which are described and figured by ^ ^^^1 

 joined at the base only. Neesia Griffithii of herbaria, and upon whicti pt ^^^^ 

 (Gen. PI. I. 213) partly constructed, as it would seem, the generic character, is ^ 



Diirio (Z). Oxkyanm, Griff.). 



CCBZiOSTEGZA. Bentk 



A tall tree. 



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Leaves simple, quite entire, scaly beneath. F^^'^P'^.^^f,!- 

 fascicled, subsessile. Bracteoles 3-4, scaly, combined below idw ^ '^^ 

 shaped tube. Sepals 5, lanceolate, much longer than the bracteoles, cy ^^ 

 below the middle into a 5-lobed 5-pouched cup, Petals 5, free, a"'^/;" jies 

 tlie base of the calyx and much smaller than it. Stamens !» ^ "^^all, 

 opposite to the sepals and adherent to their bases, included ;antncre ^^^^ 

 ■ subglobose. Ovary partly immersed in the calyx-tube, 5-celIecl; cw ^_ 

 ovuled; style filifonn, stigma large capitate peltate 5-lobed. ^^» 

 known.— The following i& the only known species, v.;. i 



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