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Marlea.] Lxxrr. cornace^. (C. B, Clarke.) 743 



with minute close tomentum. Stamens 6 or 5, filaments short, woolly. Stvle 

 snortly hairy, stigma an elongate quadrangular pyramid ; o\Tile 1. Fruit ^ by ^-^ in 

 nearly glabrous and without ribs, crowned by the short cylindric truncate' hule- 

 enlarged Jimb of the calyx. Seed much compressed, albumen fleshy: cotyledons 

 orbicular, thin, flat. "^ 



3. »I- nobilis, C. B. Clarke; leaves elliptic or orbicular, cymes few- 

 flowered, calyx-tube in the bud deeply grooved. 



Malacca ; Gnffith (Kew Distrib. Nos. 3384, 3385) ; Maingay No. 707. Sixoapore. 

 MaDigat/ No. 705. 



BrancUets petioles cymes and leaves beneath densely fulvous-villous. ieai'e^ often 

 8 by 5^ in. (sometimes only half these dimensions), not acuminate, from cordate to 

 subacute at the base, firm, at length glabrous above; petiole often | in. Cyvie short, 

 4-8-flowered. Calyx-tube deeply grooved, teeth prominent rising from the angles. 

 Fetals 6-5, | in., much dilated at the base, very villous. Stamens ^-b ; filaments 

 snort woolly. Style cylindric densely villous, the very apex narrowed, stigma as in 

 M, ebenacea ; ovule 1, Fruit 1 by | in., ellipsoid, compressed, very woolly, with 10 

 or 12 light vertical ridges, crowned by the incurved calyx-teeth, 



4. M. barbata, R. Br, in Wall Cat, 7129; shaggy with much soft 

 spreading hair, leaves elliptic or ovate acuminate^ cymes many-flowered, style 

 glabrous apex almost divided into two subclavate stigmas. 



BnoTANand Assam ; Griffith (Kew Distrib. No. 3388). Khasia Mts. ; Wallich, 

 Leaves 4 by 2^ in., entire, rounded or subcordate at the base, with scattered 

 golden or brownish hairs on both surfaces especially beneath ; petiole ^| in., densely 

 *i^iry. Cyvie 12-30-flowered with spreading golden hairs. Calyx-tube ahigf^y, not 

 grooved, teeth lanceolate. Petals 6-5, ^-^ in., hairy on the back. Filaments short, 

 ^^Jiiry. Ovule 1. Fruit \hy } in., ovoid, finally glabrous, slightly striated longitudi- 

 nally, crowned by the erect calyx-teeth. 



Sect. II. Eu-ZKCarlea. Omles 2, rarely 1 or 3. Fruit normally 2- 



seeded. 



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.. 5. M. beg-oniaefolia, Jloxb. Cor. PL t. 283, HoH. Beng. 28, Fl. Ind. 



II. 261 ; young leaves and innovatiouti villous, mature leaves more glabrous 

 woad angular lobed or entire, connective hairy or nearly glabrous, style gla- 

 wous or with scattered hairs. DC. Prodr. iv. 267 ; Bot. Reg. 1838, t. 61 ; 

 f a^^. Cat. 3719 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 744 ; Brand. For. Fl. 251 ; 

 A.urz For. Fl. i. 544. M. affinis, Bene, in Jacq. Voy. Bot. t. 83. M. tomen- 

 tosa, Endl. ex Hassh. in Flora 1844, p. 605 ; Miq. I. c 775 ; Kurz I. c. 545. 

 {^acicarpium tomeutosura, Blume Bijd. 657 ; Hasik. in Bonpland. vu. 1 / 3. 

 ^- rotundifolium,7/«.'!.«A;. I.e. 172. Stylidium chinense, Zowr. Fl. Cochinch. 2i.l. 

 ^tj-rax javanicum, Blume Bijd. 671 (e.x Kurz). 



^ Throughout Northern India, alt. lonO-6000 ft., common from the Ptjkjab to 

 Fungal and Bl'kma.— Distrib. China, Japan. , ^,v. ,i- 



A tree, often small, but attains 60 ft. ; branches horizontal. Leaves 4J by J4 in., 

 sometimes very large from orbicular to broad oblong, acuminate, base rounded or 

 «Vl>cordate unequal, not serrate nor denticulate, above glabrous when mature or villous 

 ^? the nerves rarely with scattered fulvous hairs on the surface also, mature usually 

 g'abrous beneath with or without tufts of hairs in the axils of the main nerves, which 

 ^^epuberulous, or closely hairy on the nerves; petiole l-lj in., fu vous-hairy or gla- 

 brous n..^.'-, „• j:-u_*„ » fl_i9.flnwerpd. more or less fulvous-hairy: bracts 



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r--ua. ijymes 1-3 in., dichotomous, o-i-i-uuwcit-u, inv^- v.. -^^ 

 ^conspicuous. Calyx-tube not grooved; limb shortly toothed. 



usna 



f ghtly ^^ \ Filammts short, hairy. %/. usually glabrous, stigma c^PJtate, sub- 

 2-4-lobed. Fruit I by { in., ovoid, glabrous, obscurely ribbed, crowned with the Vfry 



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