196 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Mappia. 



3. Mappia, Jacq. 



Trees. Leaves alternate, simple, penninerved. Floivers her- 

 maphrodite or polygamous in terminal corymbose cymes. Calyx 

 small, 5-toothed. Petals 5, hypogynous, valvate, villous within, 

 apex inflexed. Stamens 5, hypogynous, alternate with the petals ; 

 anthers oblong, dorsifixed, dehiscing longitudinally. Disk cup- 

 shaped surrounding the ovary. Ovary 1 -celled ; style short ; 

 stigma thickened ; ovules 2, pendulous, collateral. Fruit a drupe 

 with thinly crustaceous more or less rugose putamen. Seed 

 pendulous with dorsal raphe ; albumen fleshy ; embryo large with 

 foliaceous cordate cotyledons ; radicle superior. 



Leaves subcoriaceous, ovate, acute at apex, rounded or subcordate and 

 unequal at base, more or less densely stellate-tomentose beneath ; 

 petiole stout 1-1*5 in. long ; drupe '5 in. long, putamen rugose, flowers 



fetid, rather large 1. tomentosa. 



Leaves thickly membranous, glabrous or glabrescent ; flowers medium - 

 sized : 



Flowers not fetid ; leaves ovate or obovate, abruptly acuminate, 

 transverse nervules prominent and pale beneath ; drupe 6 in. long, 



flattened, putamen scarcely rugose 2. ovata. 



Flowers fetid ; transverse nervules of leaves slender, not very 

 prominent : 



Leaves elliptic-ovate or oblong, more or less puberulous beneath and 



pale ; rounded at base; petiole under 1 in. long 3. foetida. 



Leaves oblong or elliptic-oblong, glabrous, acute at base; petiole 



1-1*5 in. long 4. oblonga. 



Leaves thinly membranous, glabrous, pale beneath, lanceolate-oblong, 

 acuminate both at apex and base; flowers small 5. Wiglitiana. 



1. MAPPIA TOMENTOSA, Miers ; F. B. I. i. 589. 



W. Ghats, in the Nilgiri and Pulney Hills, usually above 

 5,000 ft. 



2. MAPPIA OVATA, Miers ; F. B. T. i. 589 in part. 



W. Ghats, in the Nilgiri, Anamalai, Pulney and Tinnevelly 

 Hills. 



3. MAPPIA FOETIDA, Miers ; F. B. I. i. 589. Stemonurus ? 

 foetidus, Wt. Ic. t. 955. 



W. Ghats, in the Nilgiri Hills up to 7,000 ft. 



A tree with greenish-grey bark and white soft wood. 



4. MAPPIA OBLONGA, Miers ; F. B. I. i. 589. 



AV. Ghats, in Wynaad and Malabar, up to 4,000 ft. 



