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narrowly cylindric, the limb with 4 blunt oblong lobes. Fruit globular, 

 glabrous, •25 in. in diam. 



Malacca: Griffith (K.D.) 3007; Maingay (K.D.) 855; Eullett, 763. 



41. MoRiNDA, Linn. 



Shrubby, somtimes scandent ; rarely arboreous. Leaves membranous, 

 rarely in whorls of three : stipules connate, sheathing. Flowers connate 

 by their calyces, axillary or terminal, simple panicled or umbellate 

 pedunculate heads. Calyx-tuhe short, the limb short or absent. Corolla 

 salver- or funnel-shaped, coriaceous, the tube short ; the limb usually 5- 

 (rarely 4- to 7-) lobed, valvate in bud. Star)iens equal in number to the 

 corolla-lobes, on short filaments ; anthers linear or oblong, dot si-fixed. 

 Ovary 2- or spuriously 4-celled ; style included or exerted, 2-branched : 

 ovules solitary in the ovarian cells,, ascending. Fruit formed of the 

 succulent enlarged calyces; the contained pyrenes 1-seeded, horny or 

 cartilaginous, usually free but 2 or 4 of them sometimes coheiing to- 

 gether. Seeds obovoid or reniform, with membranous testa and fleshy 

 or horny albumen ; the embryo terete, radicle inferior. — Distrib. Species 

 about 40, all tropical. 



Erect shrabs or trees, with palpy infrufcescencea ... 1. M. citrifoUa. 



Large woody climbers : — 



Infrutescence dry, more than 1 to 2 in. in dlam., external- 

 ly marked with many large deeply pitted hardened 

 calyces ... ... ••> ... ... 2. M. Incunosa. 



Infrutescence about 1 in. in diam., pulpy, smooth, 

 bearing externally a few long narrow soft tubular 

 calyces ... ... ... ••• ••• 3. M. rigida. 



Infrutescence about '25 in. in diam., without large pro- 

 truding calyces ... ... ■•• ... 4. M. umlellata. 



1. MoRiNDA ciTRiPOLiA, Linn. Sp. PI. 176. A glabrous small tree 

 or large shrub ; young brances thinner than a goose-quill, obtusely 4- 

 angled, pale-brown. Leaves broadly elliptic, occasionally obovate-elliptic, 

 shortly acuminate, the basecuneate, one of the pair opposite the peduncle 

 often suppressed ; both surfaces pale-brown when dry : main-nerves 

 6 or 7 pairs, curved upwards, thin but slightly prominent on both sur- 

 faces ; length 5 to 10 in.; breadth 2'25 to 4-5 in.; petioles 2 to -4 in.; 

 stipules transversely oblong or sub-orbicular, entire or 2- to 3-fid., '3 to 

 •5 in. long. Feduncles axillary, solitary, about "5 in. long, each bearing 

 a many-flowered capitulum 1 to 1.75 in. in diam. Calyx truncate. Co- 

 rolla fusiform in bud : the tube '.S to "5 in. long, pubescent in the throat, 

 otherwise glabrous : limb '5 or '6 in. across, with 5 lanceolate lobes. 

 Anthers with their tips exserted, filaments woolly. Lifnitescence when 



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