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26. Kingstonia, Z.f ¢ 7. 
Trees. Flowers fascicled on cauline tubercles, bisexual. Sepals 3, persistent, ovate, 
acute, the bases connate. Petals 6; outer valvate; inner smaller, oblong, imbricate. 
Stamens about 12; the filament half the length of the extrorse anther-cells; connective 
‘obliquely truncate. Ovary 1; stigma sessile, peltate, crenate; ovules few. Ripe carpels 
globose. Seeds several, 2-seriate. 
1. Kuvesroyia nervosa, Hook. fil. §& Thoms. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 93. Young branches 
rusty-pubescent. Leaves thinly coriaceous, oblong, rarely elliptic, shortly acuminate, the 
base rounded; both surfaces glabrous, the nerves and midrib puberulous beneath when 
young; main nerves 12 to 14 pairs, oblique, rather straight, depressed on the upper, 
strong and prominent on the lower, surface; length 4 to 8 in., breadth 15 to 3:25 
in.; petiole’:4 m., puberulous. Flowers *25 in. long, in extra-axillary fascicles of 8 
or 10; pedicels *35 to‘d im., slender, rusty-pubescent; bracteoles orbicular, one close 
to the flower, the others basal and imbricate. Sepals ovate, connate at the base, 
spreading, pubescent outside, glabrous within. Outer petals oblong-elliptic, concave, 
obtuse, cinereous-tomentose outside, pubescent inside; amner petals smaller, thick, concave 
and very tomentose in the upper half. Stamens about 15; the connective with a broad 
truncate apex. Ovary one, oblong, angled, pubescent; ovules 4 to 6. Ltipe carpels 
broadly ovoid, blunt, minutely velvety pale-rusty tomentose, 1°5 in, long and 1°1 in. 
in diam.; pericarp woody, Seeds about 4, oblong, compressed, separated by dissepi- 
ments. Atng im Journ, As. Soc. Bengal 61, pt. 2, 128, 
The species above described has only a single pistil. But there are, in the 
Calcutta Herbarium, specimens from Sumatra (Forbes No. 2713, in fruit but without 
flower) of what appears to be a second Kingstonia, and in these there are two carpels. 
If that plant proves to be a Kvngstonia, the diagnosis of the genus will have to be 
amended. Bs 
Malacca,—Maingay (Kew Distrib.) No. 22. Perak,—Wray No. 3376, 
PiaTe 216A. Kingstonia nervosa, H. f. & Th. 1, Leaf-twig; 2, flowering branch; 
3, Yipe carpel; 4, section of the same—of natural size; 5, flower dissected—enlurged ; 
6 & 7, anthers; &, pistils—much enlarged. . 
27. Mezzettia, Beccari, 
Trees. Flowers small, greenish, axillary or from the axils of fallen leaves, fasciculate 
or umbellate. Sepals 3, ovate, valvate. Petals 6, valvate, opening late and accrescent, 
flat, linear; the inner petals smaller ‘than the outer. Stamens 9 to 12, in two rows; 
anther cells lateral, introrse; connectives produced beyond their apices, truncate. Torus 
small, slightly concave, pubescent. Ovary solitary, ovate, glabrous, contracted into a very 
short style; stigma sub-capitate; ovules 2, superposed. Carpel coriaceous, elliptic or 
globose. Seeds 2, large, compressed. Five species, all Malayan. 
Leaves coriaceous; flowers more than °25 in. long; sepals broadly 
ovate; outer petals obtuse. 
Flower-pedicels minutely ‘bracteolate; outer petals linear; ovary 
narrowly ovoid, tapering slightly. upwards. . .-. . --+ + LDL &piopode. 
