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THE SPECIES OF MYBISTICA 



Male flowers in lax, branching cymes (at least twice as long as the 

 leaf-petioles); leaves small; fruit large. 



Fruit glabrous, broadly pyr 



iform 3. M. fragrant 



rofous-to'mentose, elongate-oblong ; cymes puberulous . . 4. M Malaoarica 



rusty-pubescent 5. M. gigantea. 



Fruit 



Fruit broadly ovoid; cymes 



Male flowers in condensed many-flowered umbels or cymes shorter 



or very 



little longer than the leaf-petioles. 



not succulent ; male perianth 



Pericarp of fruit leathery, not succulent ; mw v*v*u*» ^ ^ 



anicct. 



4-toothed 





Pericarp succulent. 



Male flowers ovoid or globose. 



Fruit minutely rufous-tomentose or pubescent, not 

 rugulose. 



Leaves elliptic to oblong-elliptic, rounded or 

 truncate or slightly cuneate at the base; fruit 

 ovoid, abruptly and shortly apiculate .... 7. M. laurifolia 



Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, oblong or elliptic, rounded 

 or suddenly cuneate at the base; fruit sub- 

 globular, 2-25 in. in diam 8. M. Beddome 



Leaves oblong or elliptic-oblong, rounded at the 



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10. M. cinnamonea. 







base, 12 to 24 in. long, stellate-tomentose 



beneath; fruit ovoid, 3 to 4 in. long ... 9. iff. magnifi* 



Leaves oblong-lanceolate with rounded bases, 4 to 

 7 in. long, cinnamoneous-tomentose beneath; 



fruit 3 to 3-5 in. long 



Leaves oblong or elliptic- oblong, much cuneate 

 at the base, 7 to 12 in. long, glabrous beneath; 



fruit 1-5 to 3 in. long 



Fruit rugulose, densely woolly rufous-tomentose . . 12. M. Lowiana. 



11. M. crassa. 



Fruit glabrous. 



Leaves linear-oblong 



13. M. Maingayi. 



t l m i.- „n;r^; rt . 14. M. Andamanica. 



Leaves ovate-elliptic or elliptic x ' 



Male flowers elongate, narrowly tubular; fruit gibbous, 

 glabrous • . . « • • • • • 



15. HI. elliptica. 





Male flowers on short, woody, few-flowered axillary racemes . . 16. M. suavis. 



Sub-sect. Horsfieldia {A. DC.) Male flowers minute, mixed with sub- , 



persistent bracteoles, in many-flowered glomeruli on large, open, 



branching panicles; androecium and fruit as in Eumyridka . . . 17. Jf. Horsfieldh. 





Sect //.— Pyrrhosa (Pyrrhosa, Blume, Hook. fil. & Th., & A. DC.) Male 

 flowers minute, in many-flowered, branching, often large and spreading panicles; peri- 

 anth ebracteolate, usually 3 sometimes 4-toothed ; androecium short, sub-globular or 

 :>-gonous, rarely cylindric, usually sessile ; anthers not elongate, completely attached 

 to the column by their backs, their apices sometimes free for a short way. Fruit 



