Melanorrhcea.~\ XLYI. ANACAEDIACEJ;. (J. D. Hooker.) 25 



pedicels short slender, bracts minute subulate, calyx hoary, lobes ^ in. long oblong 

 acute, petals ^ in. obovate-oblong, filaments subpuberulous, ovary glabrous.' _ 

 Martaban, Kurz. 



7. MELANCmRHCEA, Wall 



Trees with a varnish, juice. Leaves alternate, simple, quite entire, coriaceous. 

 Panicles axillary. Flowers rather large, hermaphrodite. Sepals 5, cohering 

 into a pointed cap, deciduous. Petals 5-8, linear-oblong, imbricate, much. 

 enlarged in fruit. Disk hemispheric or columnar. Stamens 5 or very numerous, 

 inserted all over the disk ; filaments capillary. Ovary stalked, lenticular, 

 oblique, 1-celled ; style sublateral, stigma simple ; ovule 1, pendulous from a 

 basal funicle. Fruit dry, subsessile on a long pedicel rising from the 

 stellately spreading persistent petals, globose coriaceous. Seed subglobose or 

 oblong; testa papery; cotyledons thick, plano-convex; radicle ascending. 

 The following are the only species. 



* Stamens many. Fruit pedicelled. 



1. 1. usitata, Wall PL As. Rar. i. 9. t. 11, 12: Cat. 597; leaves 

 obovate or elliptic obtuse softly tomentose on both surfaces. 



MTJNNIPORE, BIEMA and TENASSERIM, Wallich, &c. 



A large deciduous tree; branchlets very stout, velvety. Leaves 6-14 by 

 4-6 in. ; base cuneate ; nerves 28-30 pairs, stout, straight ; petiole flattened, winged, 

 |-1 in. Panicles 1 ft. long, peduncled, tomentose. Flowers lax in. diam. ; pedicels 

 slender. Calyx calyptriform, beaked, pubescent. Petals 5-6, eventually 2-4 in. long, 

 linear-oblong, obtuse, coriaceous, reticulated, gland-dotted, pubescent. Stamens 

 20-30. Drupe the size of a cherry, red, glaucous ; pedicel i in. The varnish tree. 



2. BX. g-labra, Wall. Plant. As. Ear. iii. t. 283; Cat. 1005; leaves 

 obovate-oblong or elliptic-lanceolate obtuse quite glabrous, nerves 16-20-pairs. 

 Melanorrhcea, Griff. Notul. iv. 409. 



TEXASSERIM, at Tavoy, Gomez ; Mergui, Griffith. 



A tree; branchlets hoary. Leaves 6-10 in., undulate, coriaceous, shiningabove, 

 reticulate on both surfaces; base cuneate; nerves 16-20-pairs, slender, arched, 

 very different from M. usitata; petiole \ in. flattened, winged. Panicles lax, 

 slender, sparingly branched, about equalling the leaves, puberulous. Flowers on 

 slender pedicels, white, | in. diam. Calyx membranous, calyptriform, acute pube- 

 scent. Petals linear-oblong, acute, puberulous, eventually 2-2| in. long, linear- 

 oblong or -spathulate, coriaceous, veined. Drupe in. diam., depressed or globose, 

 quite smooth ; pedicel very slender, 1-1 5- in. 



** Stamens 5. Fruit subsessile. 



3. 1VI. XvSaingayi, Hook.f. ; leaves broadly elliptic obtuse long-petioled, 

 quite glabrous. 



MALACCA, Maingay. 



A gigantic tree (Maingay} ; branchlets rather slender. Leaves 4-6 by 2-3 in., 

 very coriaceous, deeply reticulate on both surfaces; nerves 18-20-pairs, strong- 

 parallel ; petiole 1-2 in. Panicles terminal and axillary, longer than the leaves, long- 

 peduncled, pubescent, curved, lax-flowered. Flowers f in. diam. Calyx calypitri- 

 form, membranous, veined, split on one side as in Gluta, pubescent. Petals linear, 

 oblong, obtuse, tomentose. Stamens 5 ; filaments filiform, hairy. Disk elevated. 

 Ovary tomentose. Drupe | in., oblong, obtuse, smooth. 



4. XKE. Wallicbii, Hook. /. ; leaves petioled broadly obovate tip rounded, 

 nerves 12-14 pairs, panicles very numerous excessively branched very long 

 softly tomentose. Stagmaria verniciflua, Jack ? Wall. Cat. 980. 



