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villous: anthers oblong, yellow. Style 1, short, persistent. 

 Stigma capitate, 4-sidecl, villous. Gennens 3, 1-seeded. 

 Berries 3, connate at the base, purple, oblong, 1-seeded. 



MELIA EXCELSA. TV. J. 



Decandria Monogynia. 



M. excelsa; foliis pinnatis, foliolis integerrimis, paniculis co- 

 arctatis axillaribus foliis paulo longioribus. 



Pulo Penang. — A lofty tree, with straight trunk and light 

 grey bark. Branches rough with the vestiges of the fallen 

 foliage, leafy at their summits. Leaves crowded, disposed in 

 a spiral manner, pinnate with an odd one, which is often 

 wanting; leaflets subopposite, oblong-lanceolate, inequilateral, 

 obtusely acuminate, very entire, smooth, shining above. 

 Petioles round, smooth and thickened, somewhat scaly at the 

 base. Panicles axillary, ascending, rather longer than the 

 leaves, not diffuse. Flowers pedicellate, pedicels bracteolated. 

 Calyx very small, 5-parted. Corolla white, 5-petaled, spread- 

 ing; petals linear. Staminiferous tube erect, gibbous at the 

 base, 10-dentate, 10-furrowed, as if consisting of 10 united 

 filaments. Anthers 10, oblong, yellow, within the mouth of 

 the tube. Style as long as the tube. Stigma capitate. 



MICROCOS TOMENTOSA. Smith in Bees' Cycl 



POLYANDRIA MoNOGYNIA. Nat. Ord. TlLIACE^. 



M. tomentosa; foliis trinerviis subtus villosis. (Tab. LX.)* 



Grewia paniculata. Boxb. Hort. Beng. v. 3. p. 93. 



Native of Pulo Penang. — A moderately sized tree, with 

 rough bark, the branchlets villous and ferruginous. Leaves 

 alternate, shortly petioled, elliptico-oblong, broader above, 

 with a short acumen, 3-nerved, dentate, serrated towai'ds 

 the apex, scarcely pilose above, densely villous beneath, the 



* Fig. 1, Flower. Fig. 2, Stamen. Fig. 3, Pistil. Figs. 4, 5, Petals. 

 Fig. 6, Drupe -. — magnijied. 



