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Singapore: Kinp's Collector 75. A7tderson 101; Ridley G824, 6891. 

 Pahang: Ridley 2229. 



8. MussABNDOPSis, Baillon. 



A tall tree, all parts glabrous except the inflorescence. Leaves very 

 coriaceous, broad, entire, petiolate, main-nerves few, stout, veins indis- 

 tinct; stipules coriaceous, oblong, blunt. Flowers shortly pedicellate 

 ia lax, axillary, cymose panicles, with opposite spreading branches. 

 Calyx puberulous, campanulate ; the limb truncate, with 5 minute, 

 broad lobes, one of them occasionally developed into a large coloured 

 obovate 5-nerved lobe attenuate at base, 1 in. long. Corolla short, 

 puberulous outside, ovoid in bud : the tube very short or none, the lobes 

 .5, thick, oblong, slightly twisted in bud, slightly papillose near the 

 margin. Disc fleshy. Stamens 5 ; anthers linear-oblong, curved. Style 

 fleshy, short, lobes of the stigma short, thick, rounded. Ovary 2-celled, 

 the placentas attached to the septum. Ovules numerous. Fruit capsu- 

 lar, many-seeded, septicidal. Seeds small, winged at the margin; 

 embryo fleshy with scanty albumen. A single species, Malayan. 



MussAENDOPSis Beccariana, Baillou in Adansonia, XII. 282. A tree 

 100 feet high. Leaves sub-orbicular to elliptic, shortly apiculate, 4 to 6 in. 

 longand 2"75to4'5 in. broad: main-nerves about 6 pairs, rather straight, 

 depressed on the upper and prominent on the lower surface : petiole '75 

 to 1 in. long : stipules oblong, blunt, almost as long as the petiole. 

 Panicles about 8 in. in diam., and half as much long ; their peduncles 

 3 to 4 in. long. Calyx "15 in. long : the foliaceous lobe obovate, tapering 

 to the base, 1 to 1*25 in. long and '6 to '8 in. broad, white. Corolla 

 lobes about "IS in. long and *1 in. broad, spreading or reflexed. Capsule 

 oblong-subclavate, slightly compressed, 'Q in. long; puberulous, very 

 coriaceous, splitting from above downwards, the septum also coriaceous. 

 Stapf in Hook. Ic. PI. 2388. Creaghia fagrceopsis, Scortechini in Journ. 

 Bot. 1884, 370. 



Malacca: Maingay (K.D.) 835, 1692; Derry 1044. Perak: Scorte- 

 chini, King^s Collector 6195. — Distrib, Borneo, Beccari, Eaviland ; 

 Sumatra, Ridley 9016. 



9. Greenia, W. & A. 



Shrubs with terete branches. Leaves sometimes in whorls of three, 

 membranous ; stipules various. Flowers small, sessile, in terminal, 

 panicled, scorpoid cjmes, with or without bracteoles. Calyx-tube tur- 

 binate with 4 or 5 short, erect, persistent, subulate or ovate lobes, one 

 longer than the others. Corolla funnel-shaped, pointed in bud, pubes- 

 cent outside : the tube long almost glabi^ous inside ; the limb with 4 or 5 

 ei'ect ovate lobes, valvate in bud, but twisted. Stamens. ■i or 5, inserted 



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