14 ILLUSTRATIONS OF 
Native of Ceylon whence my specimens were com- 
ediviented by Colonel Wal lker. 
Apparently a shrub, with smallish (3 or 31 inches 
long, by 14 broad) ey ema scr loaves owers, ‘large in 
proportion, petals at the length of ‘bi 
stamens and column, ovaries, as in all the other species 
] have examined, clothe a with ho air 
7. M. glauca. mR, W.) ra : branches rigid, 
short, glabrous, except aunty shoots: leaves 
glaucous beneath, i oy Ssiak attenuated towards 
y equalling the 
short anthers, which together, scarcely exceed ee 
pedicel of the column of ge tet and are abou 
six times shorter t varies nieaarian 
oangeciee towards the point of the column; 
styles reeurved = iy point only : 
A native of Ceylon, where it was found by Colonel 
Walker, uke ri dee ae tir plan Sh but without 
ruit, 
is like the other Ceylon species, judging from 
u 
re 
both barely hay the 
length of the elongated pedicdl of the ovarial column, 
C. Petals ina quaternery order. 
8. M. ezcelsa. (Blume, ] 
Tent. Fi. Nepal 
deep rusty brown colonred, petals 12 in a treble series, 
ps oie cre stamens numerous, one third the length 
of the petals, ts very short: ovaries, small, 
4ovuled: earpels, su 
sub-globose, small, warty, one eeied 3 
seed enclosed in red fleshy pulp. 
Nepal.—Sheapore hill at an elevation of a 
Seet above the sea. Floweri ing in [ous nine nib 
October— Wall. 
This magnificent tree attains the height of from 50 
to 80 feet, and is most remarkably limited in its station 
being Dr. Wallich informs st Sette 0 a single spot 
on mount Sheapore. 
the natives of Nepal, where i it is ‘a under the name 
2? 9, M. Rheedii. (R. W. ) Arborious, glabrous: — 
Set oblong, acuminated, Yara the bas 
owers many petaled, (about a quaternery () 
order, the outer series the largest, abt the interior 
ones cuspidate : ovaries numer ested; styles 
caducous, leaving a. smooth, Nc shieldke sear on 
the apex: —— hor ey (10-12): carpels large, ap- 
proximated, rough, marked with 
warts, about ur ‘ iaiptioriee ee 
seeded ; seeds triangul 
black, enveloped in red fleshy pulp. nay apse — 
INDIAN BOTANY. 
Champacam Rheede Hort. Mal. 1. tab. 19. M. Cham- 
aea partly Lin. yi DeCandolle, not Blume. 
and the more eee os of 
pen posacatnet ns at an of 
cheat 5000 feet. Shevaroy hilis 4500—on both of as ich 
I gathered be ns 
Tam ena by means bd cultivated Ba epee of 
the Ch Seta which correspond in alm 
ticular with Blume’s ae so fara 
ae e this species, though on hackniels less precise 
satisfactory than I could have wished, owing to 
a eg no aoe Sige in flow ‘The ovaries and 
carpels in the present ints of our kn 
the best apdanss ‘caractrs the polished shield-like 
e ovaries is ver 
nery in pla 
and lastly, as having ovaiies 
place 4 in each, 
§ 2. One bractial and two = Spathes, 
11. M. Pulneyensis. (R. 
tic, or sub-obov ae 
merous, 
Woo is, Pu diy mountains ve an seaitoaey 6000 
ering in Sept 
A handsome, tall, Rotate, Bp hk ascending scarce- 
anches. eaves vary in their form, 
ptic in some i passi 
others, coriacious, glabrous, phe iges shorter than the 
anuginosa. (W t. FL. Ne pal.) bey 
where clothed with greyish Pave [ieetines ; leaves 
oval, obtusely acuminated, sli htly attenuated and 
acute at the base: stipnles 
petals about 12 in a terna 
tification nearly twice the length of the stamens: ova- 
seeded, 
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where Ww ubescence. As alread 
observed | have referred it doubtfully to this Section, 
on account of its supposed double + mat two being 
figured, and mentioned in the deseri ription zs 
EXPLANATION OF — 
th.—Magnort IACER 
—I, Fi, 
ene, roth 6, (ounce branch of Mich elia Pulne 
size.—2, Flower bud, 
removed, and showing thie 2 aay 
drop off. of Torus, stamens, 
» entire, and cut 
7 vs Seeds, 
entire, a d cut transversely, all more or less m nified. 
covered wih ulp, soe 10 (b 
09) the same (the pulp r - 4s et some’ 
what magnified to show its nel a oa 
