352 xxvi. MALVACEAE. (Maxwell T. Masters.) 



more in each cell, ascending. Fruit oblong, 3-5-celled, 3-5-valved, valves 

 muricate, bright red. Seeds few, oblong black, with a fleshy orange- 

 coloured, cup-shaped arillus extending over half their surface ; cotyledons 

 amygdaloid ; radicle next the hilum. DISTKIB. Malay Peninsula and 

 archipelago. Species 2. 



1. B. Griffith!!, Matt.; leaves ovate oblong cuspidate penniveined 

 scaly beneath, flowers solitary or 2-3 in short axillary cymes. Heteropyxis, 

 Grif. Nutul. iv. 524 ; Ic. PI. As. t. 594. 



MALACCA, Griffith, Maingay. 



A small tree, bark grey, wood reddish. Leaves 3-4 by 1 -2 in., glabrous above, 

 white and sparingly lepidote lieneath; petiole short. Stipulet linear, caducous. P< dunde 

 very short. Bracteoles 2-3, deciduous. Flowers in. diam. QaLyx 4pait< 

 ments ultimately reflexed. Petal* linear-spathulate, variable in number, longer than 

 the calyx. Anthers minute. Ovary covered with spines, each tipped by a peltate 

 stelliform scale. Fruit about 2 in. Seed in., solitary in each cell. 



21. NEESIA, Elume. 



Trees. Branches marked with large leaf-scars. Leaves entire, feather- 

 veined. $ii)nil<-* leafy. Inflorescence of cymes produced from the stem in 

 the axils of the fallen leaves. J>r<id>-<>/<.-< 3. connate into a campanulate tube, 

 circumsciss and deciduous, covered, like the sepals, witli peltate scales. 

 Ciily.i'. closed, ultimately dilated and cushion-shaped at the base, tubular, 

 conical above, opening by a circular invgularly creuulate orifice at the to]). 

 /VA//.S "), free, imbricate, Stamens in "> bundles, alternate with the petals, 

 each dividing midway into numerous filaments, the terminal or central one 

 of which bears a 2-loDed and the lateral filaments a 1 lobed extrorse anther 

 opening lengthwise, connective thick ; staniinodcs <>. Orari/ very shortly 

 stalked, oblong, 5-celled ; style short; stigma conic ; ovules numerous -l- 

 seriate, horizontal, anatropous. /'/// /V ovoid, woody, muricate, loculicidally 

 5-valved. /8'm/a albuminous ; aril ; cotyledons flat, leafy. (Fruit and 

 seed after Blume.) DISTRIB. Two species, a Javanese and Malaccan. 



1. N. synandra, Mast. 



PKNANC. M/i>n/jdi/. 



A lolty tree, trunk stout. Genres 9-12 by 4-5 in., cordate-oblong, obtuse, coriaceous, 

 minutely ]ml>enilons ; petiole 2 in. /Stipules oblong, l-i:erved, H in. l'<<lnmie stout, 

 angular. /'V/Yof lhiritm,( Maingay).--Thisdifti-rs from 15. nine's N.altisrima in th -furm 

 of the leaf and particularly in the stamens, which are described and figured byBlume as 

 joined at the base only. Neesia (friftithii of herbaria, and upon which Pentham 

 { ( ..M,. PI. i. 213) partly constructed, as it would seem, the generic character, is a true 

 JDurio (D. Oxkyunus, Grill'.). 



22. CCELOSTEGIA, r.enth. 



A tall tree. Leaves simple, quite entire, scaly beneath. Flowers axillary, 

 fascicled, subsessile. Bracteoles 3-4, scaly, combined below into a 'cup- 

 shaped tube. Sepals 5, lanceolate, much longer than thebracteoles, connate 

 below the middle into a 5-lobed 5-poiiched cup. Petals 5, free, attached to 

 the base of the calyx and much smaller than it. Stamens in 5 bundles 

 opposite to the sepals and adherent to their bases, included ; anthers small, 

 subglobose.' Ovary partly immersed in the calyx-tube, 5-celled ; cells few- 

 ovuled ; style filiform, stigma large capitate peltate 5-lobed. Fruit un- 

 known. The following is the only known species. 



