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Pedicels slender and stiiF, 3 — 5 lin. long, M. Khasyana. 



Pedicels thick, 1 — 1\ lin. long, M. scmiserrata. 



X X Stigmas almost sessile. Leaves entire. 

 Leaves exactly those of M. capitellata ; pedicels thick, shorter than the flower or drupe ; 



stigmas small, , , M. avenis. 



* * Stic/ma simple^ linear and usually thiclc. Leaves entire. 

 Flowers almost sessile or shortly pedicelled, densely clustered ; lateral nerves thin but 



usually distinct, 31. capitellata. 



1. M. SEMiSEREATA, Wall, in Eoxb. FL Ind. II. 294 (1824) and 

 Flor. Nep. Tent. 34. t. 24 ; DC. Prod. YIII. 93. {II. suhs^inoea, Don 

 Prod. Nep. 147 (1825 ?) ; DC. Prod. VIII. 94 ?). 



Hab. Not unfrequent in the hill-forests of Martaban east of Toun- 

 ghoo, above 6000 ft. elevation. — Fl. Fr. March. 



I am not sure about the plant v^hich Wallich figures in his Tent. 

 Nepal ; but as all the specimens of Wallich's Herbarium seen by me belong 

 to the short -pedicelled form, I have followed DC. and others in regarding 

 them the same. But there is a form common in the Khasi hills (apparent- 

 ly restricted to this locality) which has very slender, long, and stifB jDedicels 

 and this I am inclined to treat as a distinct species (31. Khasycmci). 



2. M. AYENis, DC. in Linn. Trans. XVII. 108. and Prod. VIII. 96 ; 

 Scheff. Comm. Myrs. 47. (ArcUsia avenis, B\. Bydr. 691). 



Hab. Not unfrequent in the drier hill-forests of Martaban east of 

 Tounghoo, at 4000 to 7000 ft. elevation.— Fl. March. 



I am not sure whether the Burmese tree is Blume's species, which I 

 have not seen. SchefEer's M. avenis, from Banca, is hardly the same as 

 Blume's. 



3. M. CAPITELLATA, Wall, in Eoxb. Fl. Ind. II. 295 and Tent. Fl. 

 Nepal. 35. t. 24 ; Bot. Mag. t. 3222 ; Wight Icon. t. 1211 ; DC. Prod. 

 VIII. 95 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 234. M. lucida, Wall. Cat. 2298 ; DC. Prod. 

 VIII. 95. 



Hab. Not unfrequent in the eng-forests of the Prome District ; Ava, 

 Taong-dong (Wall.) ; Martaban, Nattoung hills (Rev. Mason). 



Of this species there are two forms, or more likely two distinct species, — 

 the genuine one, represented also in Burma, which has clustered sessile or 

 almost sessile flowers, and the nerves of which are thin but pretty distinct, — 

 and the pedicellate form, the flowers of which rest on short thick pedicels, 

 and this also has the lateral nerves very obsolete. 



Samara, L. (1767). 



(Mnhelia, Burm. 1768.) 



Conspectus of Species. 



* Inflorescence terminal, or terminal and axillary. Filaments short and thick. 



X Leaves softly pubescent. 



Inflorescence brown puberulous ; pedicels capillary, S. microcalyx. 



