ILLUSTRATIONS OF 
arge tree with opposite elliptic, oblong, coriaceous 
leaves, — *e th ends. Peduncles congested, axil- 
lary, l-flow 
FG, clrisy (Blume). Java on the heights of Salak, 
flowers Octobe 
the ae link be- 
tween ore : 
nary flowers of hed 
ovarium ne ‘the ther. ive oe better 
tee en Calophylliew, on account of the ovules being 
eke o the axis, not the tear ot the cells as in that 
sub-o oe 
sacicipoy elahagt ikam rae 
Section B —Mes 
Mes Cae 
The species of this ass seem to be involved in con- 
siderable obscurity, apparently owing to no one having 
ortunity of pond, specimens from dif- 
i The original ™. ferrea is from Cey- 
cribed oe ‘Linas in his fiora 
synony e 
from ul, communicated by 
exa: zie to quadrate with his areca though quite 
bat aaa Ag the Ceylon ver again des- 
eribe er the same name a 
and realy distinguished by hi 
rar’ So! irs”? a characte 
me by Dr. 
e M. ferrea again of our Prodromus appears different 
s in the diminutive size of its leave 
and flowe 
it on oonle all the Cie have the Pg deiner 
eduncl os aii various forms 
09 98 I, + poge 562). 
lowers sub- 
uit 4-seeded. 
sessile; petals roundish, regu polar 
Rheede, ‘Hort. Mal. 3, t. 53, ate all other syno- 
aye. 
Woot pes 
pes Leaves lanceolate, acute 
hay “ta acumen, bright 
tation: flowers 
2. M. ferrea, “(is sp. 
INDIAN BOTANY. 127 
. M. Roxburghit, (R. W.) Leaves lanceolate, shortly 
acuminate, anu ee bright shining green above, 
pagal terminal, solitary, or paired 
fon e from oe axil of a terminal leaf,) short pedicelled, 
etals Capea ag oh obcordate, curled on the margin, 
“ capsule t the size of a crab apple, ste round 
with a esas ae I-celled, 4 seeded, the partition 
nearly obliterate, — ed,”” 
l. Ind. 2, page 605, 
Dingal about pate 
This is perhaps too closely allied to the Hiatal * 
principal difference being in ne nba bearing ri 
of this having but one or at mo o flowers 
to the apes while in the other ee. aes ‘hi axils of 
many pairs of leaves all along the branch. It has be- 
sides ae appearance of being a Bey more rigid plant 
than t The Diep solitary flowers 
cielo by eee ars "0, is still the s ame 
time 
a, (R.W.) Leaves n narrow snp 
ending in a long t eps blunt pointed acum right 
shining green above, paler ben sth, but pian glau- 
: Howers axillary a terminal ; peduncles shorter 
than ‘the penis 
M. ferrea, W. and A. Prod. 
e very Scmoapaed ar of 
h those 
14 broad, do not in aie 
inch in breadth, the fl ene are small in proportion 
dunculata, a. Leaves lanceolate, acute, 
somewhat abruptly acuminated, glaucous beneath: 
flowers axillary, large, frequently paired, peduncles 
about twice the ‘length of the ‘mee : 
M. ferrea, ? Choisy, D. C. od. Blume, Bijd. 
naboee —Communicated by Wm. Griffith, Esq. 
The long peduncled twin flowers of this species, 
readily distinguish it from all the aie and pro- 
claim the tree a very beautiful one w - wer. 
“Seerion | If.—C aLornyiiee. 
aLopayttuM—Lin. 
Silat venation of the leaves at once /dis- 
dees ee tne genus, almost without reference to the 
Pate alba, but th fet the cvs of the geo is 
the genus into sections, de- — 
er of vadhatigre or ro ie which — 
tanists, seem, in this Penus, 
