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5, MAPPIA WIGHTIANA, Miers. M.ovata, Miers ; F. B. I. i. 589 

 in part. 



W. Coast, in Malabar and Travancore, at low levels. 



4. Miquelia, Meissn. 



Climbing shrubs. Leaves alternate, simple, membranous, 

 palminerved. Flowers dioecious, subcapitate, with supra-axillary 

 peduncles, <? capitate in racemes, ? solitary. Calyx minute, 

 4-5-lobed. Petals : $ connate in a long pedicel-like tube, limb 

 4-5-lobed, lobes valvate, the tips inflexed ; ? free or nearly so, 

 at length reflexed. Stamens 4-5, alternate with the corolla-lobes, 

 filaments short, in ? reduced to staminodes. Ovary sessile, 

 1-celled ; style short ; stigma dilated, cupular ; ovules 2, 

 pendulous from the apex of the cell. Fruit an oblong, more or 

 less compressed, drupe ; stone crustaceous, tubercled within. 

 Seed pendulous ; albumen fleshy ; embryo with flat elliptic leafy 

 cotyledons. 



MIQUELIA DENTATA, Bedd. ; F. B. I. i. 593 

 W. Ghats, in the Anamalais (Beddome). 



A climbing shrub with ovate-oblong or lanceolate acuminate 

 membranous dentate leaves, sharply acuminate at apex, 3- 

 ribbed at base, apparently very rare. 



5. Natsiatum, Ham. 



Climbing subherbaceous shrub. Leaves alternate, simple, 

 palmately nerved. Flowers dioecious, very small, in pendulous 

 extra- axillary racemes. Calyx deeply 5-lobed, persistent. Petals 

 5, free or connate at the base. Stamens 5, alternate with the 

 petals and also with 5 2-lobed staminodes ; filaments short ; 

 anthers sagittate, apiculate, opening longitudinally : in ? replaced 

 by compressed glands. Ovary sessile, 1-celled ; style short, 2-3- 

 lobed at apex ; stigmas capitate ; ovules 2 collateral, pendulous. 

 Fruit an obliquely ovoid compressed black drupe ; stone 

 crustaceous, 1-celled. Seed solitary ; albumen fleshy, embryo 

 with leafy orbicular cotyledons. 



NATSIATUM HERPETICUM, Ham. ; F. B. I. i. 595. 



N. Circars, Mahendragiri Hill in Gairjam at 3,000 ft, 

 (Gamble), 



