4 iLV. SABiACEiE. (J. T>. Hooker.) [Ileliosma. 



stamens, either membranous and nearly free, or reduced to a "bifid scale adnata 

 to tbe filament. Stamens 5 ; 2 fertile, opposite tie smaller petals, filament 

 filort, flattened, incurved, expanded at the top into a cup, which bears two glo- 

 bose cells that burst transversely, sprino:inff back elastically : 3 deformed, broad, 



opposite the Ifurger petals, 2-fid with 

 the pistil. Disk cupular or annular 



Ovary 



«essile, 2- rarely S-celled, contracted into a simple or 2-partible style, stigma sim- 

 ple ; ovules 2 in each cell. Ih'upe small, oblique, subglobose ; stone crustaceous, 1- 

 celled, with usually a basilar rounded projection, over which the seed is 

 curved. Seed globose, testa membranous; cotyledons conduplicate, radicle 

 incurved. — Distiub. Species about 20, natives of Tropical Asia and the Malay 

 Archipelago, with a very few S. America. 



• Leaves simple. 



+ Leaves serrate-toothed (see also 3. M. Wightii and 4. M. simplicif olia) . 



1. M. dillenlaBfoliay TT*?//. ?;(55. (Millingtonia) ; leaves obovate or oblan- 

 ceolate coarsely spinulose-toothed pubescent or tomentose beneath, panicles 

 lax slender, flowers pedicelled, sepals and bracteoles ciliate, petals membran- 

 ous, inner orbicular. Brandts For. Flor, 115 ; Wt. (§• Am. in Ed. New PhiL 

 Joum.y 1833, 179; Wt. III. i. 144 (MiUingtonia) ; Millingtonia, TFi///. Cat. 8116. 



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Tempkbatb Himalaya; from Simia, alt. 4-8000 ft, to Sikkim, alt. 8-10,000 ft. 



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A small tree, 20 ft. ; branches, petioles, and panicles covered with soft rusty 

 pxxbescence. Leaves 6-12 by 3-5 in., membranous, cnspidste-acmninate, nar- 

 rowed into the petiole ; nerves very many, parallel, ending in marginal teeth. Panicle 

 as long as the leaves or longer, spreading, lax-flcwered ; bracts broad, deciduous; 

 pedicels very short; flowers white.- Brujje globose, | in. diam., sometimes didymous- 

 — This is very near indeed to the Japan M. myriantha Sieb. & Zucc, which is just 

 distinguishable by the persistent subulate bracts. Wallich's 8116 seems to bo a young 

 state of this, with large leaves glabrous beneath. 



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2. M. pun^ens, Wall Cat. 8114 E, F (MiUingtonia) ; leaves oV 



lanceolate caudate-acuminate coarsely serrate glabrous or puberulous beneath, 

 flowers senile glomerated, sepals aiid bractcfeles about 7 all siborbicular cili- 

 ate, petals membranous. Brandts For. Flor. 116, M. acuminata, Boyle HI. 

 139. M. integrifolia, Wall. Cat. 8114 G in part (IMillingtonia). M. rigida and 

 M. ferruginea, Sieb. ^ Zucc. (in Hah. Hook.) ^- . \_,/ 



Sttbtropical and Tempekate Himalaya ; alt. 3-8000 ft., from Marri to Nipal. 

 DisTRiB. Japan. 



A small tree ; branches, petioles, and panicles clothed with rusty pubescence. 

 Leaves 5-9 in. by 2-3 in., very coriaceous, narrowed into the petiole, almost spinulose- 

 Berrate, apex long quite entire ; ner^'es stout, ascending, very prominent beneath ; 

 petiole J-1 in. Pajiicle often much larger than the leaves, spreading, erect ; flowers 

 densely fascicled on the ultimate branchlets, larger than in M . dillenuEfolia or simplici' 

 folia. Drupe ^ in. diam. globose. — The Japanese specimens have usually longer 

 petioles, but I find no other difference. The densely glomerate larger flowers at once 

 distinguishes this from M. simplicifolia. The M. integrifolia Wall. Herb, under 

 81 H G. consists of one specimen of this with nearly entire leaves, and one of itf". 

 stmpiici/bfia, both from Nipal. ' ■" ' "•> ' 



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tt Leaves 2^^ entire, or siihgerratew^enyoung only. 





3. M. WlgrlitU, Planch, tk fferh. Hook; leaves coriaceous obovate 



elliplic-obovate oi oblanceolate shoMy acuminate glabrous or pubescent 

 neath, flowers sessile glomerate, sepals and bracteoles about ^ broad ciliate 

 the outerpubescen! on the bact ; petals membranous. .Brawrfts Por. Flor. 116 

 (under JiLpungens). MiUingtonia simplicifolia, TTaK. Caf. 8114^. M.piingens; 



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