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25. KiNGSTONiA, H. f. and T. 



Trees. Flowers fascicled on cauline tubercles, bisexual. Sepals 

 3, persistent, ovate, acute, the bases connate. Petals 6 ; outer valvate ; 

 inner smaller, oblong, imbricate. Stamens about 12, the filament half 

 the length of the exti'orse anther-cells ; connective obliquely truncate. 

 Ovary 1 ; stigma sessile, peltate, crenate : ovules few. JSi^e cartels 

 globose. Seeds several, 2-seriate. 



1. KiNGSTONiA NERVOSA, Hook. fil. and Thorns. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 9.3. 

 Young branches rusty- pubescent. Leaves thinly coriaceous, oblong, 

 rarely elliptic, shortly acuminate, the base rounded ; both surfaces 

 glabrous, the nerves and midrib puberulous beneath when young ; main 

 nerves 12 to 14 pairs, oblique, rather straight, depressed on the 

 upper, strong and prominent on the lower, surface ; length 4 to 8 in., 

 breadth 1'5 to 3"25 in. ; petiole "4 in., puberulous. Flowers "25 in. long, 

 in extra-axillary fascicles of 8 or 10 : pedicels "SS to 'h in., slender, 

 rusty-pubescent ; bracteoles orbicular, one close to the flower, the others 

 basal and imbricate. Sepals ovate, connate at the base, spreading, 

 pubescent outside, glabrous within. Outer petals oblong-elliptic, con- 

 cave, obtuse, cinereous-tomentose outside, pubescent inside ; inner petals 

 smaller, thick, concave and very tomentose, in the upper half. Stamens 

 about 15, the connective vpith a broad truncate apex. Ovary one, oblong, 

 angled, pubescent ; ovules 4 to 6. Bipe carpels broadly ovoid, blunt, 

 minutely velvety pale-rusty tomentose, 1'5 in. long and 1"1 in. in diam.; 

 pericarp woody. Seeds about 4, oblong, compressed, separated by 

 dissepiments. 



The species above described has only a single pistil. But there 

 are, in the Calcutta Herbarium, specimens from Sumatra (Forbes No. 

 2713, in fruit but without flower) of what appears to be a second Kings- 

 tonia, and in these there are two carpels. If this plant proves to be a 

 Kingstonia^ the diagnosis of the genus will have to be amended. 



Malacca : Maingay, (Kew Distrib.) No. 22. Perak : Wray, No. 3376. 



26. Mezzettia, Beccari. 

 Trees. Floivers small, greenish, axillary or from the axils of fallen 

 leaves, fasciculate or umbellate. Sepals 3, ovate, valvate. Petals 6, 

 valvate, opening late and accrescent, flat, linear, the inner petals smaller 

 than the outer. Stamens 9 to 12, in two rows ; anther-cells latei-al, 

 introrse ; connectives produced beyond their apices, truncate. Torus 

 small, slightly concave, pubescent. Ovary solitary, ovate, glabrous, con- 

 tracted into a very short style ; stigma sub-capitate ; ovules 2, super- 

 posed. Carpel coriaceous, elliptic or globose. Seeds 2, large, compressed. 

 Five species, all Malayan. 



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