200 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



opposite the lobes of the inner row ; filaments slender, -05 in. long ; 

 anthers oblong, glabrous, apiculate. Staminodes alternate with the 

 anthers, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, toothed, clothed on the back and 

 sides with pale stiff hairs. Ovary silky-pubescent, 6-celled; style slender, 

 grooved, as long as corolla. Fruit an ovoid berry about 1 in. long; yellow 

 when ripe, 1- rarely 2-seeded. Seed oblong, -75 in. long, -5 broad and 

 about "25 thick, rounded above, hollowed at base where is the small 

 oval hilum ; testa crustaceous, dark brown, shining ; albumen thin ; coty- 

 ledons oblong, leafy, nearly as large as the seed cavity; radicle inferior. 

 Eoxb. Cor. PI. 1. 15. t. 14, and Fl. Ind. II. 236 ; Gaertn. f. Fruct. 1. 198, 

 t. 42; Lamk. 111. t. 300 ; Baillon Hist. PI. XI. 267, figs. 302-309 ; Engl. 

 & Prantl Pflanzenfam. IV. i. 152, fig. 82 E-J ; Burck Ann. Jard. Buit. 

 V. (1886) 61 ; Wall. Cat. 4146 ; A. DC. Prod. VIII. 202 ; Clarke in Hook, 

 f. Fl. Br. Ind. III.i548 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 140 ; Wight Ic. t. 1586 ; 

 Brandis For. Fl. 293 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 40 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 

 Beng. XL VI. ii. 231, For. Fl. II. 123; Trimen Fl. Ceyl. III. 86; Prain 

 Beng. PI. 649 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb. II. 95. M. ohtusifolia, Bl. Bijdr. 

 672. " Elengi " Eheede Hort. Mai. I. 33 t. 20. Eumph. Herb. Amb. 

 II. 189 t. 63. 



Pbrak : Scortechini 1122. Malacca : Griffith (K.D.) 3612 ; Maingay 

 (K.D.) 995/2, 998; Ctming 2265.— Distbib. India, Ceylon, Burma, 

 cultivated in other tropical regions ; the fallen corollas are used to 

 make garlands. 



2. MiMUSOPS Kauki, Linn. Sp. PL 349 (1753). A large evergreen 

 tree ; branchlets thick greyish-brown, extremities somewhat ferruginous- 

 scaly or -pubescent. Leaves coriaceous, clustered towards the ends of 

 the branchlets ; obovate or elliptic-obovate, obtuse, emarginate or very 

 slightly acute at apex, cuneate at base ; glabrous above, densely and 

 smoothly grey- silky-pubescent beneath ; the margins slightly recurved ; 

 2 to 4 in. long, 1-25 to 2-75 in. broad ; midrib prominent ; main-nerves 

 very indistinct, about 14 to 16 pairs, parallel, meeting near the edge in 

 a looped intramarginal nerve ; petiole '5 to 1'5 in. long, moderately 

 thick, channelled above. Floioers thickly clustered towards the ends 

 of the branchlets ; pedicels '75 to 1 in. long, appressed grey-silky- 

 pubescent, angular. Calyx-lobes 6, '25 in. long ; 3 outer valvate, ovate, 

 acute, grey-silky-pubescent ; 3 inner imbricate, similar but rather 

 thinner. Corolla with a very short tube and 18 (or more, exceptionally) 

 lobes in 2 rows ; the outer row 12, lanceolate, acute ; the inner 

 6, spathulate ; all "1 in. long or nearly so, glabrous. Stamens 6 to 8, 

 usually 6, extrorse ; filaments '1 in. long, conical, glabrous ; anthers 

 *1 in. long, linear, blunt. Staminodes alternating with the stamens, 

 *2 to *25 in. long, cuneate, deeply and irregularly fimbriate at apex. 



