Mesoj)tera.~\ LXXV. BUBIACEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) 137" 



fleshy albumen ; embryo slender, cylindric, occupying the whole axis of the al- 

 bumen, hence coiled almost in a circle, cotyledons very short obtuse, radicle 

 very long superior. 



1. M. BXaing-ayi, Kook.f. in Gen. Plant, ii. 131. 



MALACCA, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 939). 



Branches as thick as a goose-quill. Leaves 8-12 by 4-5 in., ovate or elliptic, acu- 

 minate, brown when dry, glabrous and shining above, rusty beneath ; nerves 9-1 (^ 

 pair, impressed above ; petiole ^ in., very stout ; larger stipule 1 in. Cymes small 

 and dense in flower, open in fruit, much branched, hirsute, branches slender. Fruit 

 when didymous ^ in. diam., black when dry. The description of the flowers is aided 

 by Maingay 's mss., where the ovules are described as inserted near the base of the 

 cell, whence I assumed the plant to belong to Psychotrice, and so classed it in the 

 Genera Plantarum; the fruit, then unknown, shows it to belong to Vangwriea, though 

 it resembles more outwardly that of an Ixora. 



TRIBE XI. XXOREJB. 

 CO. ZXORA, Linn. 



Shrubs or small trees ; branches terete. Leaves opposite, rarely in threes ; 

 stipules interpetiolar. Flowers in terminal 3-chotomously branched often corym- 

 biform cymes, 2-bracteolate, very rarely 5-merous. Calyx-tube ovoid ; limb 4- 

 toothed, persistent. Corolla-tube long, very slender ; lobes 4, spreading, twisted 

 in bud. Stamens 4, on the mouth of the corolla ; filaments short or 0, rarely 

 half as long as the anther ; anther slender, tip often mucronate, base 2-fid. 

 Ovary 2-celled ; style filiform, exserted, never twice as long as the corolla-tube ; 

 stigma slender, fusiform ; branches 2, rarely persistently connate ; ovules soli- 

 tary^ peltately attached to the septum in each cell. Fruit globose or didymous 

 with 2 plano-convex or ventrally concave coriaceous pyrenes. Seeds peltate,, 

 testa membranous, albumen horny; cotyledons flat thin, radicle inferior. Pis- 

 TEIB. Species about 100, tropical Asiatic and African, rarely American. 



A genus with difficulty distinguished from the 1-ovuled species of Webera, ex- 

 cept by habit, the slender corolla-tube, and 4-merous flowers. The species are 

 most difficult to limit and diagnose, and the subdivisions here proposed are only 

 approximately reliable. Probably more of the Indian species are referable to Malayan, 

 and especially Bornean ones than I have ventured to identify with these. Paretta 

 differs in the bracts and very long style, always twice as long as the corolla or 

 more. 



SECT. I. XSuixora. Flowers 4- very rarely 5-merous, 2-bracteolate. 

 Corolla-tube very slender. 



* Calyx-teeth longer than the ovary, lanceolate subulate or filiform. Cymes 

 corymbiform (except in /. lanceolaria and Notoniand). 



1. I. acuxninata, Eoxb. Hort. Beng. 10; Fl. Ind. i. 383 ; glabrous, leaves 

 petioled elliptic or linear-oblong acuminate coriaceous, floral pair obovate or ob- 

 lanceolate from a sessile auricled or rounded base, cymes sessile or subsessile- 

 corymbiform contracted dense-flowered, bracteoles elongate subulate, calyx 



flabrous teeth lanceolate much longer than the ovary, corolla-tube very slender 

 -\\ in., lobes narrowly obovate, mouth pubescent or villous. DC. Proclr. iv. 

 488 ; WigM Ic. t. 706 (not good} ; Wall. Cat. 61 2G. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 3000 ft., C. B. Clarke ; BHOTAN, Griffith ; ASSAM, EHASIA 

 MTS., ascending to 4000 ft., and CACHAB, Hamilton, &c. ; CHITTAGOXG, C. S. Clarke. 



A robust glabrous shrub ; branches smooth. Leaves very variable, floral sometimes 

 only in., rounded or linear-oblong, in extreme forms 12 by 6 in. with a cordate base ; 



