168 THE JOURNAL OF INDIAN BOTANY. 



stylus abbreviatus, stigmate simplice oblongo. Semina 1-6 (vel 

 plura '?), lateraliter compressa vel in sectione transversa cuneiformia. 



Arbores, arbuscula, vel frutices humiliores, per regiones Asiae 

 australes, et Indo-Sinenses, usque ad Australian subtropicam dis- 

 persae. Species circa 21. 



It is usual to ascribe tbe foundation of Miliusa to the discoverer 

 of the type species, but it does not appear that he laid claim to anything 

 beyond the dedication, and the descriptions throughout are evidently 

 the work of De Candolle. The present description is necessarily 

 tentative and is put forward partly as a contribution towards a much 

 needed revision of the family, or at least of that group to which Miliusa 

 naturally belongs. Much better material, in the fruiting stages 

 particularly, must have accumulated since the account in Genera 

 Plantar um was published. 



The writer will be grateful for any specimens of Miliusa, Sacco- 

 petaluir, or Phfeanthus that can be spared on loan or otherwise for 

 study at Kew in order to complete a key to the species which it is 

 proposed to include under Miliusa. 



