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ripe ovoid or globose, 1 to 1-75 in. long, yellow, fleshy : each pyrene 2- 

 seeded. Roxb. Fl. lud. I. 541 ; Hunter in As. Resear. IV. 35 ; DO. 

 Prod. IV. 446 : Ham. in Trans. Linn. Soc. XIII. 533; W. & A. Prod. 

 4L9; Wall. Cat. 8418: Brand. For. Flora, 277; Kurz, For. Fl. Burm. 

 II, 60; Hook. fil. Fl, Br. Ind. III. 155; Trimen Fl. Ceyl. III. 354; 

 Gaertn. Fract. I. 29. M. bracteata, Roxb. Hort. Beng, 15 ; Fl. Br. Ind. I. 

 5A4; Ham. I.e. 534; DC. I.e. 447; W. & A. I.e. ; Wight 111. t. 126; 

 Wall. Cat. 8419; Brandis I.e. 277. 



In all the provinces : in or near cultivation, but probably in many 

 cases not wild. — Distrib. Brit. India, Ceylon, Malay Archipelago. 



VAR. elliptica, Hook. fil. I.e. Leaves narrowly elliptic-oblong, taper- 

 ing to each end, shining : peduncles slender, 1 to 1*5 in. long : fruiting 

 heads '5 to 75 in. diam. Wall. Cat. 8434. 



In all the provinces: more frequent than the typical form. 



2. MoRiNDA LACDNOSA, King & Gamble, n. sp. A powerful clim- 

 ber 30 to 60 feet long : young branches thinner than a goose-quill, angled, 

 sparsely and minutely pubescent. Leaves thickly membranous, elliptic, 

 sharply and shortly acuminate, the base cuneate ; upper surfaces dark- 

 brown when dry, glabrous except the puberulous midrib ; lower paler, 

 the reticulations very distinct ; maiu-nerves about 8 pairs, curving up- 

 wards, very bold on the lower surface, slightly depressed and faint on 

 the upper; length 4*5 to 6 in.; breadth 2 to 275 in.; petioles '5 to 1-25 

 in.; stipules apiculate, only 15 in. long. Heads about "5 in. in diam, 

 (when in flower) with one or two linear coriaceous bracts at their bases, 

 solitary, on puberulous peduucles about 1 in. long, collected in twos or 

 threes at the apices of the branches. Calyces completely confluent by 

 their sides, irregularly cupular, the limb coriaceous, produced into a 

 large oblique triangular lobe at one side, otherwise sub-truncate. Disk 

 large, cushion-like, convex. Oorolla unknown. Infrutescence (when 

 ripe) globular, TS in. in diam.; the surface covered with the protruding 

 irregularly 4-sided conical enlarged calyces, each with a wide pit on its 

 apex ; individual fruits 2-celled, 2-seeded. 



Pebak : King's Collector, 4320, 6030, 8254 ; Scortechini. 



This is easily distinguisbed by its large deeply pitted infrutescence which ia 

 dry, not at all pulpy. 



3. MoRiNDA RiGiDA, Miq. Fl. lud. Bat. II. 246. A woody climber 

 20 to 30 feet long; young branches thinner than a goose-quill, at first 

 minutely rusty-tomeutose, afterwards with glabrescent pale spongy 

 bark. Leaves dark-coloured when dry, the edges recurved, thickly 

 coi'iaoeous, narrowly elliptic, shortly and bluntly acuminate or blunt, 

 the base cuneate ; upper surface shining, glabrous except the pubescent 



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