Kayea.} xxin. GUTTIFEIUE. (T. Anderson.) 277 



bracteolate. Beddome Flor. Sylvat. t. 102. K. cuspidata, Planch. & Trian. 

 Mem. Guttif. 268. 



Southern districts of CEVLON, Thwaites. 



A large glabrous tree; bark dark-grey; branchlets terete, reddish. Leaves 2-3 by 

 4-1 in., rigid; veins arched, very faint on both surfaces; petiole ^-\ in., slender. 

 Racemes from the upper axils, bracteoles subulate. Flowers small. Stamens many, 

 filaments capillary, persistent, exceeding the sepals. Fruit the size of a small chestnut, 

 covered by the coriaceous accrescent calyx, tipped by the thickened short style. 



4. XL. nervosa, T. Anders. ; leaves elliptic-oblong or oblong-lanceolate 

 acuminate cuspidate, flowers solitary or 1-3 axillary or terminal. Mesua 

 nervosa, Planck. & Trian. Mem. Guttif. 279. 



TENASSERIM PROVINCES, at Mergui and Martaban, Griffith, Parish. Malacca, 

 Maingay. 



Young branches minutely tubercled, sub-4-angnlar ? Leaves 4-5 by 14-2 in., thin, 

 membranous, base rounded, shining above, coppery beneath ; veins distinct, ^ in. apart, 

 arched, depressed on the* upper surface; petiole | in. Flowers If in. diam., pedicels 

 1-24 i n -> tubercled. Outer sepals | in-., thick and coriaceous, suborbicular, inner nearly 

 twice as large. Petals cuneate-obovate. Filaments capillary, nearly equalling the 

 pistil. Style slender, thickened after flowering, stigma deeply 4-cleft. 



5. IKESUA, Linn. 



Trees. Leaves opposite, rigidly coriaceous, often pellucid-dotted ; veins 

 innumerable, very slender, at right angles to the midrib. Flowers polyga- 

 mous or hermaphrodite, large, axillary, solitary. Sepals and Petals 4 each, 

 imbricate. Stamens very numerous, filaments filiform free or connate at the 

 base ; anthers erect, oblong, 2 -celled, dehiscence vertical. Ovary 2-celled ; 

 style long, stigma peltate ; ovules 2 in each cell, erect. Fruit between fleshy 

 and woody, 1 -celled by the absorption of the septum, at length 4-valved, 

 1-4-seeded. Seeds without an aril, testa fragile. DISTEIB. Tropical Asia ; 

 3 species. 



1. XH. ferrea, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. i. 562; leaves drooping linear-lanceolate 

 acute or acuminate, peduncles short stout. Chois. Guttif. Ind. 40 ; Planch. & 

 Trian. Mem. Guttif. 271 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 605; W. & A. Prodr. 102; Wall. 

 Cat. 4834; Wight III. 127, Ic, t. 118; Beddome Flor. Sylvat. Gen. xxiii. 

 M. speciosa, Chois. in DC. I.e. ; Guttif. Ind. 40 ; Wight Ic. t. 961 ; Wall 

 Cat. 4835: Beddome I.e. xxiii. M. pedunculata Wight III. 127, Ic. t. 119. 

 M. coromandeliana, Wight III. 129, Ic. t. 117; Beddome Flor. Sylvat. t. 64. 

 M. Roxburghii, Wight III. 127 ; Beddome I.e. xxiii. M. salicina, M. Walkeriana 

 and M. pulchella, Planch. & Trian. I.e. 373, 374, and 379. M. sclerophylla, 

 Thwaites Enum. 407; Beddome I.e. xxiii. M. Nagana, Gard. in Gale. Joitrn. 

 Nat. Hist. viii. 4. 



Mountains of EASTERN BENGAL, the EASTERN HIMALAYA, and the EASTERN and 

 WESTERN PENINSULAS, and ANDAMAN ISLANDS ; cultivated elsewhere in India. 



A middling-sized glabrous tree ; trunk erect, straight ; twigs slender, sub-4-angled. 

 Leaves 3-6 by 1 J to If in., base acute or rounded, dark-green and shining above, covered 

 more or less with fine waxy meal beneath; veins very fine, close-set, and equally incon- 

 spicuous on both surfaces ; petiole |- in. Flowers f-3 in. diam., usually terminal 

 and solitary or in pairs. Sepals orbicular, thick, with membranous margins, inner pair 

 largest. Petals 4, spreading, cuneate-obovate, pure white. Anthers large, oblong, 

 golden-yellow. Fruit ovoid, conical-pointed, size variable, often of a large chestnut; 

 base surrounded by the persistent sepals, 1-4-seeded. Seeds dark-brown, testa smooth. 

 A very variable plant, the absence of the pruinose under-surface oi the leaves is by 



