508 LXXXVIII. MTRSINEJ:. (C. B. Clarke.) \_Mcesa. 



short, stigma capi.tate or shortly 3-5-1 obed ; ovules numerous, placenta globose. 

 Berry globose (in M. mollis "hirsute), of the size of a peppercorn. Seeds 

 numerous, subtrapezoid. Species 35, in the tropics of the Old World. 



The inflorescence is often monstrous, the flowers being replaced by densely imbri- 

 cating bracteoles. 



* Leaves glabrous, sometimes scaly or furfur aceous when young, 

 t Leaves entire or obscurely denticulate. 



1. IKE. ramentacea, A. DC. Prodr. viii. 77; leaves coriaceous elliptic- 

 lanceolate acuminate entire, base rounded or wide-rhomboid, secondary ner- 

 vation obscure, racemes compound usually much longer than the petioles and 

 often than the leaves. Scheff. Myrsin. 15 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 

 220, and For. Fl. ii. 99. M. lanceolata, Don Prodr. 148 (not of Forsk.). M. 

 acuminata, missionis and glabra, A. DC. I. c. 77, 78, 82. M. sumatrana, Scheff. 

 1. c. Bseobotrys ramentacea, Roxb. Hort. Seng. 16, and Fl. 2nd. i. 558 ; Wall. 

 Cat. 2322. B. glabra, Roxb. I.e. 560. B. fragrans, Watt. Cat. 2323. B. 

 acuminata, Spreng. Syst. Index, v. 89. B. ? missionis. Wall. Cat. 6523. 



EASTERN BENGAL and the EASTERN PENINSULA, alt. 0-3000 ft., common from 

 Bhotan to Singapore. DISTBIB. Malaya to Borneo. 



An erect tree, 30 ft., with straight stem and lanceolate outline ; or more commonly 

 a gregarious bush on the low dry hills ; branches rarely verrucose. Leaves 4-5 by 

 1^ in., margin slightly thickened ; primary nerves conspicuous beneath, distant, about 

 8 on each side ; petiole ^ in. Racemes usually equalling the leaf, from half as long 

 to twice as long, glabrous. Bceobotrys (v. Msesa) acuminata, Wall. Cat. 2321, is 

 Gymnosyoria acuminata, Hook. f. 



VAR. ovata, A. DG. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 133, t. 4 (sp.) ; leaves larger ovate 

 or ovate-cordate. Scheff. Myrsin. 14. Baeobotrys ovata, WalL Cat. 2324. Penang; 

 Wallich. South Malay Peninsula ; frequent. Nicobars ; Kurz. Distrib. Malaya. 

 Leaves 6 by 3 in. in the extreme forms from the south, smaller in the Burmese 

 examples, panicle sometimes very large in both. The figure of A. DC. does not show 

 (as Scheffer has observed) the extreme form of M. ovata, but one near the type. 

 Wallich's typical plant has cordate-ovate leaves, and nerves deeply impressed in the 

 upper surface. 



2. IME. andamanica, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 575, and in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, 

 pt. ii. 220 ; leaves coriaceous elliptic acuminate rounded at the base obscurely 

 denticulate secondary nervation obscure, racemes as long or twice as long as the 

 leaves. M. verrucosa, Kuro For. Fl. ii; 98, not of Scheff. 



SOTTTH ANDAMAN ISLAND ; 'in forests, Kurz. 



An evergreen, small tree ; all parts glabrous ; branches verrucose. Leaves 3 by 

 l in., primary nerves 6-8 on each side ; petiole in. Racemes, in Kurz's example 

 in young flower, sometimes more than twice the "petiole, not shorter than in some 

 examples of M. ramentacea, from which it scarcely differs but by the minute denticu- 

 lation of the leaves. 



3. HI. rug-osa, Clarke \ leaves coriaceous narrowly lanceolate caudate 

 cuneate at the base obscurely denticulate rugose, racemes longer than the 

 petioles scarcely one-third the length of the leaves. M. montana, var. coriacea, 

 Herb. 2nd. Or. H. f. $ T., not M. coriacea, Champ. 



SIKKIM, alt. 5-7000 ft. ; in the upper valleys of the Teesta and Ratong, frequent; 

 J. D. H., &c. 



A stout shrub, probably becoming a tree ; branchlets very sparingly warted. 

 Leaves 7^ by 1| in., scaly or furfuraceous when young, glabrous or glandular-puberu- 

 lous when old ; primary nerves 12-15 on each side, much raised beneath, secondary 

 uniting them at right angles, often subprominent, ultimate reticulating very obscure ; 

 petiole | in. Racemes 1-2 in. panicled, glandular-puberulous or glabrous. 



