ANONACE OF BRITISH INDIA. 169 
2°5 to 5 in., breadth ‘5 to 1:5 in., petiole -25 in. Flowers °25 in. long, in crowded, 
sessile, axillary or extra-axillary fascicles of 5 to 10; pedicels slender, ebracteolate, 
scurfily pubescent, *35 to ‘6 in, long. Sepals semi-orbicular, with reflexed sub-acute tips, 
connate and forming a spreading, shallow cup, densely and minutely tomentose. Ouéer 
petals ligulate, acute, tomentose like the sepals but with a glabrous patch at the base 
inside. Inner petals like the outer, but less acute and one-third shorter. Anthers about 
12, sessile, short, about as broad as long; the connective very broad, truncate at the 
apex. Ovary solitary, broadly ovoid, tapering abruptly to the curved truncate stigma, 
2-ovuled. Ripe carpels sub-globose, sometimes laterally compressed, truncate (often 
obliquely so), 1°5 to 2 in. in diam., smooth, glaucous, Seeds oblong, sub-compressed, 
1 in. long. 
Penang, on Government Hill at 1,200 feet,—Curtis No. 2266. 
A species with rather longer thinner leaves than MM. Herreyana, and a different 
calyx. 
Pirate 217B. Mezzettia Curtisii, King. 1, Flowering branch; 7, ripe carpel 
8, section of the same—of natural size; 2, flower dissected—enlarged; 3 & 4, anthers ; 
5, pistil; 6, section of same—much enlarged. 
Ann. Roy. Bor. Garp. Carcurra Vor. IV. 
W. J.—Reg. No. 5254J—270—27-6-93. 
