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small lobules between, denticulate, with about 3 to 4 glandular lineoles. 

 Stamens inserted near the base of the corolla-tube ; anthers globose ; 

 filaments about twice as long as anthers. Ovary rounded, depressed, 

 crowned with a short cylindric style and obtusely 3-4-lobed stigma. 

 Fruit very small, "05 in. in diam., globose, glabrous, faintly striate, 

 crowned about one-third of the way down wath the persistent calyx- 

 teeth. Seeds very minute, angled. Scheff. Myrs. 29 ; Mez Monog. 

 Myrs. 49. M. florihunda, Scheff. Myrs. 18. M. Korthalsiana, Scheff. 

 Myrs. 18 (?) 



Perak : Wray 2684 ; Scortechini 122, 1655 ; King's Collector 725, 

 2722, 3777, 4968, 5326.— Distrib. Sumatra, Korthals, Beccari 887; 

 Borneo, de Vriese, Teysviann. 



We have always found the flowers tetramerous, as described by Miquel and 

 Scheffer. Mez describes them as either 4- or 5-merous. This is a well-marked 

 species on account of its large terminal inflorescence, whose pubescent branches easily 

 distinguish it from those occasional forms of M. raiiientdcea which have part of the 

 inflorescence pseudo-terminal. 



2. M.s:sA RAMENTACEA, Wall, in Eoxb. Fl. Iiid. ed. Carey & Wall. II. 

 231 (1824). A large shrub or small tree, usually branched from the 

 base and sending out many straggling or climbing branches often 

 30 to 40 feet long or more ; branchlets smooth, somewhat striate when 

 dry. Leaves entire, chartaceous ; ovate-lanceolate or elliptic, acuminate 

 •at apex, rounded or cordate at base; 3 to 8 in. long, 1-5 to 4 in. broad; 

 smooth on both surfaces and generally shining above ; midrib promi- 

 nent, often impressed above ; main-nerves slender, distant, 5 to 10 pairs, 

 starting at 45° with the midrib and curved upwards ; secondary nerves 

 and reticulations not apparent : petiole -3 to -5 in. long, slightly winged 

 by the decurrent margins of the blade, which are often connivent 

 above. Inflorescence axillary or sometimes pseudo-terminal, glabrous, 

 many-fiowered, consisting of more or less closely packed racemes 

 arranged in bipinnate panicles, shorter or longer than the leaves ; pedi- 

 cels "1 to "15 in. long, slender, supported by a minute lanceolate bract 

 and with 2 very minute ovate-lanceolate bracteoles below the flower; 

 buds minute, globose, depressed at top. Calyx superior, cupular; tube 

 very short, about -025 in. long ; lobes 5, ovate, faintly ciliate, as long as 

 the tube. Corolla "075 in. long; lobes half the length, ovate or ovate- 

 reniform, edges undulate, with a few brown glandular lineoles. Stamens 

 short, longer in $ flowers, inserted a little below the top of the tube ; 

 anthers rounded, filaments as long as the anthers, dorsifixed. Ovary 

 in 9 flowers adnate to the base of the calyx-tube, style short, stigma 

 minutely 4-lobed, ovules many. Fruit globose, -1 to -15 in. long, 

 crowned with the persistent teeth of the calyx ; seeds minute, angled, 

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