"WO Systematik und Pflanzenn^eographie. 



the column by their connectives only, their margins and apices qnite 

 free ; stigma sessile, 2-lobecl ; leaves aud fruit small. 



1. Flowers globular in bud. ;^1. M. Ch~iffi,thil Hook. f. 



2. Flowers ovoid in bud. 



Leave« 3 to 6 in. long, witli G to 10 pairs of Tery distinct nerves ; 

 fruit ovoid. 32, M. Farqzihairiana Wall. 



Leaves 6 to 10 in. long, with 13 to 17 pairs of nerves ; fruit narrowly 

 obovoid or ellipsoid. 33. M. Forheaü Kiug sp. n. 



Leaves 6 to Vi in. long, with 11 to 13 pairs of distinct nerves; fruit 

 jl^lobose. 34. M. (Janaricu Hedd. 



."Sect. IV. Irya (Hook. fil. and Thoms. ; A. DC.) Panicles as in Pyrr- 

 hosa; perianth bifid or 3-toothed, sometiines 4-toothed ; androecium 

 globose or depreased-globose, sessile, sometinies elongated transversaly ; 

 anthers for the most part attached to the column by their bases 

 only (quite connate to it in M. bivalvis), their sides and apices 

 quite free ; the apices sometimes much incurved. Fruit as in P y r r - 

 hosa. 



1. Perianth of cf flowers bivalved, uever 3 or 4 toothed. 



Androecium a sessile cup, bearing about 30 elongate, connate, much 

 inflexed anthers. 35. M: bivalvis Hook. f. 



Androecium elongated transversely, with 10 anthers partially attached 

 to the column and by each other. 



36. M. rrassifolia Hook. f. et Thom«, 

 Androecium slightly elongated transversely ; anthers 10, their tips in- 

 curved; (^ panicles rufous-pubescent ; fruit globular. 



37. M. Irya Gaertn. 



2. Perianth nf cT flowers 2 or 3 toothed; androecium ovate or subglobul.ar ; 

 anthers about 10; cT panicles and all other parts ghibrous; fruit ovoid. 



38. M. gluhra Bl. 



3. Perianth usually 3 toothed; sometimes 4 toothed. 



a. Leaves glabrous. 



(^ panicles rather few-flowered, scurfy, stout, 3,5 in. long; q{' fl. 

 0,1 in. long; fruit 1,75 in. long; young branches tereie, 



39. M, majuscula King sp. u. 

 cf panicles many-flowesed, 4 to 6 in. long, slender, spreading, 

 glabrescent; (^ A- about 0,05 in. in diam.; fruit 1,25 in. long; 

 young branches distinctly 2 ridged. 40. M. bracJdata King sp. n. 

 d^ panicles scurfy or almost glabrous, not inore thau 2 in. long; 

 cf fl. 0,05 in. in diam.; female panicles under 0,75 in. long. 



41. M. Ridleyana King sp. n. 

 (^ panicles many-Howered, 2,5 to 3,5 in. long, uearly glabrous ; 

 (;f fl. less than 0,05 in. in diam.; fruit 1,25 to 1,5 in. long. 



43. M. Collettiana King sp. n. 



ß. Leaves glabrous, except the lower sui-face of the midrib in young 



leaves. 42. M. polyspherula Hook. f. 



Sect. V. Knema (Blume, Hook. f. and Th. ; A. DC.) Male flowers 

 pedicelled, in Clusters of from 3 to 15 from shortly axillary tubercles; 

 pedicels with a persistent bracteole about the middle (close to the 

 perianth in M. Cantleyi and M. ob 1 ongifo lia). Staminal column 

 peltate, concave or flat, rarely convexed, usually stalked ; the anthers 

 ovate, usually sessile, attached by their basis to its edge, or some- 

 times with short filaments ; otherwise free, radiating + horizontally from 

 the edge of the flattened column and dehiacing downwards, or suberect 

 :and extrorse. 



1. Staminal disc aud anthers almost as in Irya\ bracteole close to the flower. 



44. M. oblongi/olia King sp. u. 



