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imbricate ; the tube adnate to the ovary, sometimes with resinous hnes. 

 Corolla shortly campanulate, 4-5-lobed ; the lobes usually as long as 

 the tube or rather shorter, rounded with inliexed tips, sometimes 

 resinous-lineate. Stamens 4 or 5, inserted on the corolla-tube ; fila- 

 . ments short ; anthers introrse, oblong-cordate. Ovary adnate to the 

 calyx-tube ; style short ; stigma small, entire or shortly 3-5-lobed ; 

 ovules numerous, placenta globose. Fruit small, dry or fleshy, ovoid 

 or subturbinate, crowned with the persistent style, many-seeded. 

 Seeds numerous, angular, immersed in hollows of the placenta, and 

 arranged around it with hexagonal surfaces, embryo small, oblique or 

 transverse, cotyledons narrowly ovate. — Disteib. Species over 100 

 (according to Mez), chiefly in the tropical regions of the Old World, 

 a few in Australia and the Pacific Islands ; all the Malayan species 

 belonging to sub-genus EumcBsa, Mez. 



Leaves entire : — 



Flowers in large terminal leafy panicles ; branches of the 



inflorescence pubescent . . . . . . . . 1. ^1/. niacrothyrsa. 



Flowers in large axillai-y or pseudo-terminal panicles of 



racemes ; branches of inflorescence glabrous . . . . 2. M. ramentacea. 



Leaves faintly lobed : — 



Leaves very slightly dentate, almost coriaceous, under 3 5 in. 



long, midrib and main-nerves very prominent ; inflorescence 



as long as or only a little shorter than leaves , . . . B. M. impressinerviif. 



Leaves membranous, over 4 in. long : — 



Leaves pale when dry, under 3 in. broad, distantly den- 

 tate, inflorescence longer than the petiole . . . . 4. M. striata. 



Leaves dull green when dry, over 4 in. broad, inflorescence 



scarcely longer than the petiole . . . . . . 5. il/. pahangiana. 



Leaves prominently dentate . . . . .. 6. M. iiidica. 



1. MiESA MACROTHYBSA, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 573 (1862). A' 

 slender climbing shrub reaching 30 to 50 feet in length ; branches brown, 

 somewhat angled and flexuose, striate. Leaves entire, chartaceous ; 

 elliptic, shortly bluntly acuminate at apex, rounded at base ; smooth and 

 dull on both surfaces ; 3 to 4 in. long, 1-5 to 2 in. broad; midrib promi- 

 nent, impressed above ; main-nerves 5 to 7 pairs, distant, starting from 

 the midrib at about 60° and curving upwards ; secondary nerves and 

 reticulations indistinct ; petiole -5 to -7 in. long, channelled above by 

 the decurrent margins of the blade. Inflorescence a large leafy terminal 

 many-flowered tripinnate panicle, the branches rusty pubescent ; pedi- 

 cels about -025 in. long, supported by a slightly shorter ovate-acute 

 bract, and bearing 2 similar bracteoles below the flowers. Calyx 

 superior, cupular ; lobes 4, occasionally 5, rounded, denticulate, '04 in. 

 long, gland-dotted ; tube very short. Corolla dull white or pink, longer 

 than calyx ; tube as long as lobes ; lobes 4 or 5, rounded, often with 



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