Marlea.~\ LXXII. CORNACE.&. (C. B. Clarke.) 743 



with minute close tomentum. Stamens 6 or 5, filaments short, woolly. Style 

 shortly hairy, stigma an elongate quadrangular pyramid ; ovule 1. Fruit f by l-f in., 

 nearly glabrous and without ribs, crowned by the short cylindric truncate little- 

 enlarged limb of the calyx. Seed much compressed, albumen fleshy; cotyledons 

 orbicular, thin, flat. 



3. IKE. nobilis, C. B. Clarke ; leaves elliptic or orbicular, cymes few- 

 flowered, calyx-tube in the bud deeply grooved. 



MALACCA ; Griffith (Kew Distrib. Nos. 3384, 3385) ; Maingay^o. 707. SINGAPORE, 

 Maingay No. 705. 



Branchlets petioles cymes and leaves beneath densely fulvous- villous. Leaves often 

 8 by 5 in. (sometimes only half these dimensions), not acuminate, from cordate to 

 subacute at the base, firm, at length glabrous above ; petiole often | in. Cyme short, 

 4-8-flowered. Calyx-tube deeply grooved, teeth prominent rising from the angles. 

 Petals 6-5, in., much dilated at the base, very villous. Stamens 6-5 ; filaments 

 short woolly. Style cylindric densely villous, the very apex narrowed, stigma as in 

 M. ebenacea; ovule 1. Fruit 1 by|in., ellipsoid, compressed, very woolly, with 10 

 or 12 light vertical ridges, crowned by the incurved calyx-teeth. 



4. IK. barbata, R. Br. in Watt. Cat. 7129; shaggy with much soft 

 spreading hair, leaves elliptic or ovate acuminate, cymes many-flowered, style 

 glabrous apex almost divided into two subclavate stigmas. 



BnoTANand ASSAM ; Griffith (Kew Distrib. No. 3388). KHASIA MTS. ; Wallich. 



Leaves 4 by 2^ in., entire, rounded or subcordate at the base, with scattered 

 golden or brownish hairs on both surfaces especially beneath 7 petiole |~ in., densely 

 hairy. Cyme 12-30-flowered with spreading golden hairs. Calyx-tube shaggy, not 

 grooved, teeth lanceolate. Petals 6-5, 3 ^ in., hairy on the back. Filaments short, 

 hairy. Ovule 1. Fruit f by in., ovoid, finally glabrous, slightly striated longitudi- 

 nally, crowned by the erect calyx-teeth. 



SECT. II. Eu-BXarlea. Ovules 2, rarely 1 or 3. Fruit normally 2- 

 seeded. 



5. Itt. beg-oniaefolia, Roxb. Cor. PL t. 283, Hort. Beng. 28, FL Ind. 

 ii, 261 ; young leaves and innovations villous, mature leaves more glabrous 

 broad angular lobed or entire, connective hairy or nearly glabrous, style gla- 

 brous or 'with scattered hairs. DC. Prodr. iv. 267 ; Bot. Reg. 1838, t. 61 ; 

 Wall. Cat. 3719 ; Miq. FL Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 744 ; Brand. For. FL 251 ; 

 Kurz For. FL i. 544. M. aifinis, Dene, in Jacq. Voy. Bot. t. 83. M. tomen- 

 tosa, Endl. ex Hassk. in Flora 1844, p. 605 ; Miq. I. c. 775 ; Kurz I. c. 545. 

 Diacicarpium tomentosum, Blume Bijd. 657 ; Has$k. in Bonpland. vii. 173. 

 D. rotundifolium,.H5sA;. 1. c. 172. Stylidium chinense, Lour. FL Cochinch. 221. 

 Styrax javanicum, Blume Bijd. 671 (ex Kurz). 



Throughout Northern India, alt. 1000-6000 ft., common from the PUNJAB to 

 BENGAL and BURMA. DISTRIB. China, Japan. 



A tree, often small, but attains 60 ft. ; branches horizontal. Leaves \ by 3 in., 

 sometimes very large, from orbicular to broad oblong, acuminate, base rounded or 

 subcordate unequal, not serrate nor denticulate, above glabrous when mature or villous 

 on the nerves rarely with scattered fulvous hairs on the surface also, mature usually 

 glabrous beneath with or without tufts of hairs in the axils of the main nerves, which 

 are puberulous, or closely hairy on the nerves; petiole 1-1 \ in., fulvous-hairy or gla- 

 brous. Cymes 1-3 in., dichotomous, 8- 12 -flowered, more or less fulvous-hairy ; bracts 

 inconspicuous. Calyx-tube not grooved ; limb shortly toothed. Petals ustially 68, 

 slightly hairy. Filaments short, hairy. Style usually glabrous, stigma capitate, sub- 

 2-4-lobed. Fruit ^ by ^ in., ovoid, glabrous, obscurely ribbed, crowned with the very 



