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1. Mezzettia leptopoda, Oliver in Hook. Ic. PI. t. 1560. A tree : 

 young branches dark-coloured, glabrous, striate, rather stout. Leaves 

 coriaceous, oblong or narrowly elliptic, obtusely acuminate or acute ; 

 the base rounded or acute ; upper surface glabrous, shining ; the lower 

 dull, obscurely reticulate ; main nerves 8 or 9 pairs, forming wide arches 

 far from the margin, very faint ; length 25 to 4 in., breadth 1 to 1'75 

 in., petiole "35 in. Flowers "5 in. long, on long slender pedicels in axil- 

 lary fascicles of 2 to 6 ; pedicels "5 to "75 in., pubescent : bracteol«-s 

 minute. Sepals broadly ovate, connate at the base, tomentose, reflexed. 

 Petals tomentose, on both surfaces ; the outer linear, obtuse, "2 in. long ; 

 the inner shorter and broader. Ovary ovoid. Bipe carpels unknown, 

 Lonchomera leptopoda, H. f. and Th. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 94. 



Malacca : Maingay (Kew Distrib.) No. 102. 



This plant is very imperfectly known. The carpels associated with 

 Maingay's specimens do not agree with his description of them (Fl. Br. 

 Ind. I, 94) and they are evidently those of some species of Polyalthia. 



2. Mezzettia Herveyana, Oliver Hook. Ic. Plant, t. 1560. A tree ; 

 young branches rather stout, nodose, glabrous. Leaves coriaceous, ellip- 

 tiC'Oblong, shortly acuminate, the base cuneate, both surfaces glabrous, 

 the upper shining ; main nerves about 10 pairs, spreading, inter-arching 

 within the margin, faint; length 2'5 to 3 in., breadth 1 to 1"25 in., 

 petiole "25 to 35 in. Flowers "4 in. Inng, rather crowded, in sessile axillary 

 or extra^axillary fascicles of 3 to 8 : pedicels "3 in. long, pubei-ulous, 

 ebracteolate. Sepals broadly ovate, obtuse, connate at the base, pubes- 

 cent like the petals. Outer petals ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, flat, the inner 

 smaller, broadly elliptic, obtuse, the tips incurved. Anthers sessile, 

 obovate-quadrate, about 12. Ovary oblong, tapering into the style : 

 ovules 2, superposed. Bipe carpels unknown. 



Malacca : H ervey. 



3. Mezzettia Cuetisii, King n. sp. A tree, 30 to 40 feet high : young 

 branches cinereous, rugose. Leaves thinly coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate 

 or oblong, more or less acuminate, the base acute ; both surfaces gla- 

 bi'ous ; the upper shining, the lower dull ; main nerves about 10 pairs, 

 spreading, faint ; length 25 to 5 in., breadth '5 to 1"5 in., petiole '25 in. 

 Floivers "25 in. long, in crowded, sessile, axillary or extra-axillary fascicles 

 of 5 to 10 ; pedicels slender, ebracteolate, scurfily pubescent, "35 to '6 

 in. long. Sepals semi-orbicular, with reflexed tips, connate and foi-ming 

 a spi'eading, shallow cup, densely and minutely tomentose. Outer petals 

 ligulate, acute, tomentose like the sepals but with a glabrous patch at 

 the base inside. Lmer petals like the outer, but less acute and one-third 

 shorter. Stamens about 12, short, about as broad as long, the connec- 

 tive very broad, truncate at the apex. Ovary solitaxy, broadly ovoid, 



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