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iana, H. f. and T. 1. c. 149. M. trisHs, Kurz F. Flora Burma, T, 47 ; 

 Uvaria dioica, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 659. Phceanthus dioicus, Kurz in Flora 

 LIIT. (1870) 274. Guatteria globosa, A. DC. Mem. Soc. Genev. V, 43 ; 

 Wall. Cat. 6448. Hyalostemma Boxbtcrghiana, Wall. Cat. 6434 ; Griff. 

 Ic. PI. Ind. Or. iv. t. 653. 



Sikkim, Himalaya ; Assam Hill ranges ; Chittagong Hills : Burma; 

 Singapore up to 4,000 feet. 



Kurz's species M. tristis, (F. Flora Burma, I, 47) appears to be a 

 form of this with larger leaves and flowers than usual. The only speci- 

 mens of it extant are very poor and better material may shew it to be, 

 as Knrz thought, a distinct species. According to M. Pierre, his Cam- 

 bodian species M. mollis (Fl. Forest. Coch. -Chine, t. 40) is closely allied 

 to M. lioxhnrghiana. The same author's species M campanulata (1. c. t. 

 41) is also allied to M. JRoxhurghiana and to M. macrocarpa. 



2, MiLiusA LOXGiPES, King, n. sp. A small tree 15 to 30 feet high : 

 young branches dark-coloured ; all parts glabrous except the edges of 

 the sepals and outer petals. Leaves membranous, shining, oblong-ob- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, the base sub-cuneate or rounded ; main nerves 

 about 12 pairs, spreading, faint : length 5'5 to 7 in., breadth 1"75 to 

 2"75 in., petiole "1 to '15 in. Floivers'5 to "65 in. long, axillary, solitary; 

 pedicels slender, "5 to "75 in. long, (larger in fruit) with 3 or 4 lanceolate 

 bracteoles at the base. Sepals and outer petals sub-equal, minute, ovate, 

 sub-acute, the edges ciliate. Inner petals very much lai'ger than the 

 outer, ovate-oblong, veined, sub-acute, gi'eenish-yellow, '5 or "6 in. long. 

 Stamens about 18, compressed, short, often bent, the apiculus broad, 

 shallow. Ovaries numerous, elongate, glabrous ; stigma large, capitate, 

 sessile. Ripe carpels numerous, globular-ovoid, blunt, glabrous, sub- 

 granular, '25 to "3 in. long ; stalks "75 to 1 in., slender. Seeds ovoid. 



Perak : at low elevations, Scortechini. King's Collector. 



This species approaches M. macropoda, Miq : but its leaves are more 

 narrowed to the base and more acuminate. 



2.3. Alphonsea, H. f. & T. 



Lofty trees. Leaves more or less coriaceous, glabrous, shining. 

 Flowers small or middle-sized, in leaf-opposed, rarely extra-axillary, 

 peduncled fascicles ; buds conical. Sepals 3, small, valvate. Petals 6, 

 valvate in 2 series, often saccate at the base, larger than the sepals, 

 equal or the inner rather smaller. Turns cylindi"ic or hemispheric. 

 Stamens indefinite, loosely packed ; anther-cells doi'sal, contiguous ; 

 connective apiculate. Ovaries 1 or more ; style oblong or depressed ; 

 ovules 4-8, in 2 series on the ventral suture. Carpels sub-sessile or 

 stalked. — Distrib. Species 9, all Indian or Malayan. — Baillon Hist. 215 

 unites this genus with Bocagea. 



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