478 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



18. Manoipera caesia, Jack in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey, II, 441. A 

 large tree ; young branches stout, rather rough from the cicatrices of 

 fallen leaves. Leaves thickly coriaceous, broadly lanceolate or elliptic- 

 oblong, shortly and bluntly acuminate, narrowed from about the middle 

 to the short broad petiole ; main nerves 20 to 25 pairs, thin, spreading, 

 curving, the midrib stout and the reticulations obscure on both surfaces ; 

 length 6 to 12 in., breadth 2 to 35 ; petiole "35 to '5 in. long. Pani- 

 cle large, erect, terminal, longer than the leaves, on a stout pedun- 

 cle, minutely tawny-toraentose and of a glaucous reddish -colour : its 

 branches numerous, spreading, dividing and bearing the flowers near 

 their extremities in densely crowded cymules. Flowers '3 in. long, on 

 stout pedicels shorter than them&elves with, a broad elliptic bracteole 

 at the base of each. Sepals 5, lanceolate, sub-acute, erect, pubescent. 

 Petals 5, twice as long as the sepals, adnate to the disc, linear, erect, 

 glabrous, with one central ridge, concave. Stamen 1, shorter than the 

 petals, the anther short, staminodes very minute. Disc small, sub- 

 5-lobed. Ovary obliquely ovoid ; style sub-terminal. Drupe obovate- 

 oblong, reddish-white. Griff. Notul. IV, 415 ; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 

 19 ; Engler Mon. Phau. V, 213. 



Malacca: Griffith, No. 1100 ; Maingay, No. 466. 



19. Mangipera superba, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 19. A very large 

 tree : the young branches three-quarters of an inch thick. Leaves large, 

 very coriaceous, cuneate-oblanceolate, sub-acute, the margins slightly 

 undulate, gradually narrowed from the upper third to the short flattened 

 stout petiole ; both surfaces hard and quite glabrous, not reticulate ; the 

 midrib very stent, flattened on the upper but prominent on the lower sur- 

 face ; main nerves 30 to 35 pairs, spreading, not very prominent : length 

 10 to 16 in., breadth 3 to 5; petiole very stout, fr-om *5 to 1 in. long. 

 Panicle terminal, much longer than the leaves, tawny-pubescent, on a 

 very stout peduncle with, many woody lanceolate bracts at its base ; 

 its primary branches few, sub-erect, with short branchlets crowded near 

 tbe apex, the flowers densely crowded near the apices of thebrauclilets; 

 bi'acts numerous, large, broadly lianceolate, concave, pubescent. Flozvers 

 •75 in. long, lilac, their pedicels very short. Sepals 5, ovate-lanceolate, 

 pubescent, concave, "35 in. long. Petals 5, twice as long as the sepals, 

 adnate to the cylindrio disc, lanceolate, acuminate, recurved, veined, with 

 a thickened central ridge on the lower half. Stamen 1, bearing a perfect 

 anther, the others with imperfect small anthers, the filaments of all 

 Bubequal. Ovary obliquely ovoid, tapering into a slender sub-terminal 

 elongate style ; ovule horizontal, laterally attached. Engler in DC. Mon. 

 Phan. II, 214. 



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