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36. Mesoptera, Hook fil. 



A tree ■with stout terete branches and large, very coviaceons leaves: 

 stipules large, coriaceous, unequal. Flowers minute, in dense ebracteo- 

 late axillary cymes shorter than the petioles. Calyx-tuhe short, hemi- 

 spheric, 5-toothed. Corolla-tube short ; throat hairy ; lobes of the limb 

 short, acute, valvate in bud. Stamens 5, inserted on tlie throat; fila- 

 ments short, subulate; anthers oblong, apiculate. Ovary 2-celled : style 

 shoi't, stout; stigma capitate, 10-lobed: ovules 1 in each cell, attached 

 to the septum. Fruit small, 2-celled and didymous, or 1 -celled and 

 globose, smooth : pericarp coriaceous, with a thin fleshy covering. Seeds 

 cup-shaped, embracing a thick horny projection from the inner angle of 

 the cell; testa adiiate to the fleshy albumen : embryo slen'ler, cylindric, 

 coiled in the middle of the albumen ; cotyledons short, obtuse ; radicle 

 long, superior. — A single Malayan species. 



Mesoptera. Maingati, Hook fil. in Beuth. & Hook. fil. Gen. Plan- 

 tar. TI. 131 , Fl. Brit. Ind. Ill, 137. Young bi'anches as thick as a goose- 

 quill, deciduously rusty -tomentose. Leaves elliptic or broadly ovate ; 

 shortly acuminate, smooth and shining on the uppei- surface, rusty- 

 tomentose on the lower; main-nerves 5 to 7 pairs, curved, ascending, 

 depressed on the upper, bold and pi'ominent on tlie lower surface ; 

 length 7 to 9 in. ; breadth 4'5 to 5*5 in. Stipules very unequal and 

 obtuse, with strong parallel nerves, one obliquely oblong, 1 in. in length, 

 the other shorter and rounded ; petiole '5 in. long, very stout. Cytnes 

 less than "5 in. in diam. in flower, but in fruit 225 in. in diam. and mucii 

 branched, pubescent. Fruit when didymous "2 to '25 in. across ; when 

 single-seeded and globular about half as much. ' 



Malacca: Maingay (K.D.) 939. 



Known only from Mainp;ay's two specimens in Herb. Kew, The above descrip- 

 tion is mainly copied from Sir Joseph Hooker's. 



37. Gardeniopsis, Miq. 



Shrubby or sub-arboreous, glabrous, with stout branches. Leaves 

 very coriaceous, oblanceolate, mnny-nerved ; stipules lanceolate, cadu- 

 cous. Flowers in small somewhat supra-axillaiy clusters without bracts 

 or bracteoles. Calyx small, its tube cylindric; the limb with 5 spread- 

 ing lobes. Corolla much larger than the calyx (1 in. or more in length) ; 

 its tube widely cylindric, less than half as long as the limb ; lobes of 

 limb large, ovate, imbricate. Stamens 5, inserted near tlie base of the 

 corolla-tube; the anthers linear, acuminate, included. Style short, stiurma 

 fusiform acute; ovary 2-celled with 1 ovule in each cell. Fruit broailly 

 ovoid, rugalose, with 10 broad bold ridge.s, its sub-truncate apex 



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