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 acute, petals -^ in. obovate-oblong, filaments subpuberulous, ovary glabrous.' 

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Trees with a varnish juice. Leaves alternate^ simple, quite entire^ coriaceous. 



■ famcles axillary. Flowers rather large, liermaphrodite. Sepals 5, coliering 



iDto a pointed cap, deciduous. Petals 5-8, linear-oblong, imbricate, much 



enlarged in fruit. JDish liemispheric or columnar. Stamens 5 or very numerous, 



inserted all over the disk ; filaments capillary. Opai-y stalked, lenticular, 



1-celled ; style sublateral, stigma simple ; ovule 1, pendulous from a 

 funicle. Fruit dry, subsessile on a long pedicel rising from the 

 stellately spreading persistent petals, globose coriaceous. Seed subglobose or 

 ^^ong; testa papery; cotyledons thick, plano-convex; radicle ascending. — 

 ■tlie follo^vdng are the only species. 



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,1- M. usitata, Wall PL As. Bar. i. 9. t. 11, 12: Ca^, 69?'; leaves 

 ODovate or elliptic obtuse softly tomentose on both surfaces. 



MuNNiPORE, BiRMA and Texasserisi, Wallich, &c. 



A. large deciduous tree; branchlets very stout, velvety. Leaves 6-14 by 

 J j> in. ; l^se cuneate ; nerves 28-30 pairs, stout, straight ; petiole flattened, winged, 

 Sj-i in. Panicles 1 ft. long, peduncled, tomentose. Flowers lax I in. diam. ; pedicels 

 lin Vi ^^^^^ calyptriform, beaked, pubescent. Petals 5~6y eventually 2-4 in. long, 

 2Mft n ^' obtuse, coriaceous, reticulated, gland-dotted, pubescent. Stamens 

 ■ ^' -Drupe the size of a cherry, red, glaucous ; pedicel | in. — The varnish tree. 



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T ^- **•; fflabra. Wall. Plant. As. Par. iii. t. 283; Cat. 1005; leaves 

 ovate-oblong or elliptic-lanceolate obtuse quite glabrous, nerves 16-20-pairs. 

 Melanorrhcea, Gnf. Notul. iv. 409. ^ ^ ' ^ 



Tenasserim, at Tavoy, Gomez ; Mergui, Griffith. , ' ' 



retic 1 f ' l>ranch]ets hoary. Leaves Q-IO in., undulate, coriaceous, shiningabove, 

 verv Vff ^^ ^^^^ surfaces; base cuneate; nerves 16-20-pairs, slender, arched. 

 Blend -^^^^'^ from M, usitata; petiole \ in. flattened, winged. Panicles lax. 



Flowers on 



slend ^P?:^^^gly branched, about equalling the leaves, puberulous. 

 scent ^ D ^^^^®' ^^'^^^^' 2 in- «iiam. Calyx membranous, calyptriform, acute pube- 

 oblonV ^^^^^ linear-oblong, acute, puberulous, eventually 2-2| in. long, linear- 

 finif ^ ^^ -spathulate, coriaceous, veined. Drupe t in. diam., depressed or globose, 

 m^ smooth ; pedicel very slender, l-l^ in. - • ■ 



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luitP f^' ^**»»ffayl. -H"oo;t, /. ; leaves l)roadly eUiptic ottuse long-petioled, 



^'ute glabrous. 



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Verv' ^^"'^^'^ '^^•ee {Maingay) ; branchlets rather slender. Leaves 4-6 by 2-3 in., 

 /coriaceous, deeply reticulate on Loth surfaces; nerves 18-20-pairs, strong- 

 pedun! ' ?^^iol« 1-2 in. Panicles terminal and axillary, longer than the leaves, long- 

 form Pubescent, curved, lax-flowered. Flowers \ in. diam. Cahjx calypitn- 

 oblo^ i^ - '^°^''' veined, split on one side as in Gluta, pubescent. Feials linear, 

 Ot^arw'f ° '*^> ^D^eJitose. Stamens S; filaments filiform, hairy. Disk elevated. 

 y tomentose. Drupe 1 in., oblong, obtuse, smooth. ' 





nerves "^hJ ^*"ichll, Hook. f. ; lej^s i^tioled br^dly olwvate tip rouiiaed, 

 8oftlv+;^ ^^ P^^'S) panicles very numerous excessively branched very long 



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