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cencc a simple axillary raceme, as long as or slightly longer than the 

 petiole ; pedicels slender, about -1 in. long, supported by a minute 

 subulate bract below and with two similar bracteoles below the flower. 

 Calyx superior, cupular, with a very short tube and 5 triangular 

 imbricate teeth -6 in. long, glabrous, hyaline at the edges and very 

 faintly brown-glandular. Corolla as long as calyx ; lobes 5 imbricate, 

 glabrous, rounded, somewhat crenate, with 2 to 3 prominent brown 

 glandular lineoles ; tube half the length. Stamens nearly as long as 

 corolla, inserted near its base ; filaments about twice as long as the 

 anthers ; anthers emarginate, cells somewhat divaricate. Fruit globose 

 with a conical tip surrounded by the remains of the corolla and the 

 persistent calyx, and surmounted by the short persistent style, ribbed, 

 •125 in. in diam., glabrous. 



Pahang : at Tanjong Antan, Bidley 2175a. 



Only one specimen is unfortunately available, and that in fruit, with only remains 

 of flowers. 



6. M^sA indica. Wall, in Eoxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey & Wall. II. 230 

 (1824). A shrub reaching 4 to 6 feet in height ; branchlets brown, smooth, 

 lenticellate. Leaves chartaceous ; elliptic or elliptic-oblong, acuminate, 

 rounded or acute at the base ; repand-dentate, about 3 teeth to each 

 main-nerve ; 3 to 7 in. long, 2 to 3 in. broad ; midrib very prominent, often 

 broad; main-nerves 8 to 12 pairs, others closely reticulate; glandular 

 striae long, prominent ; petiole "5 to 1 in. long, channelled above by the 

 decurrent bases of the blade. Inflorescence of simple or compound 

 axillary racemes, much shorter than the leaves, usually 1 to 3 in. long ; 

 pedicels slender, -05 to 1 in. long, longer in fi'uit ; bracts subulate, in 

 flower as long as pedicels ; bracteoles 2, minute. Calyx superior, with 

 5 imbricate lobes, which are ovate, ciliate, striate, about '04 in. long, 

 almost acute or rounded at apex. Corolla as long as calyx ; lobes denti- 

 culate, glandular- striate; tube as long as lobes. Stamens inserted at base 

 of corolla-tube ; anthers ovate, cells divaricate ; filaments dorsifixed, 

 rather longer than anthers. Ovary rounded ; style short cylindric, 

 stigma obtuse ; ovules many. Fruit round, smooth, striate, '15 in. 

 long, crowned at the summit by the persistent calyx-lobes and the 

 remains of the stigma. Seeds angular. A. DC. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 XVII. 134, Prod. VIII. 80 {in part); Wall. Cat. 2318 E. ; Clarke in 

 Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 509 {in part) ; Koord. & Val. Bijd. V. 222 ; 

 Mez Monog. Myrs. 29. Baobotrys indica, Eoxb. Hort, Beng. 16, Fl. 

 Ind. I. 557. 



Pebak : Wray 3314, 3349 ; Scortechini 16, 733 ; Bidley 3007, 

 9741 ; King's Collector 7712. — Distrib. Burma, Java. 



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