1904] King & Gamble — Flora of the Malayan Peninsula, 63 



36. Mesoptera, Hook fil. 



A tree with stout terete branches and large, very coriaceous leaves : 

 stipules large, coriaceous, unequal. Flowers minute, in dense ebracteo- 

 late axillary cymes shorter than the petioles. Calyx-tuhe short, hemi- 

 spheric, 6-toothed. Corolla-tube short ; throat hairy ; lobes of the limb 

 short, acute, valvate in bud. Stamens 5, inserted on the throat ; fila- 

 ments short, subulate ; anthers oblong, apiculate. Ovary 2-celled : style 

 short, stout ; stigma capitate, 10-lobed ; ovules 1 in each cell, attached 

 to the septum. Fruit small, 2-celled and didymous, or 1 -celled and 

 globose, smooth : pericarp coriaceous, with a thin fleshy covering. Seeds 

 cup-shaped, embracing a thick horny projection from the inner angle of 

 the cell ; testa adnate to the fleshy albumen : embryo slender, cylindric, 

 coiled in the middle of the albumen ; cotyledons short, obtuse j radicle 

 long, superior. — A single Malayan species. 



Mesoptera. Maingayi, Hook fil. in Benth. & Hook. fil. Gen. Plan- 

 tar, n. 131 ; M. Brit. Ind. Ill, 137. Young branches as thick as a goose- 

 quill, deciduously rusty-tomentose. Leaves elliptic or broadly ovate ; 

 shortly acuminate, smooth and shining on the upper surface, rusty- 

 tomentose on the lower ; main-nerves 6 to 7 pairs, curved, ascending* 

 depressed on the upper, bold and prominent on the lower surface; 

 length 7 to 9 in. ; breadth 4'5 to 6*5 in. Stipules very unequal and 

 obtuse, with strong parallel nerves, one obliquely oblong, 1 in. in length, 

 the other shorter and rounded ; petiole '5 in. long, very stout. Cymes 

 less than '5 in. in diam. in flower, but in fruit 2*25 in. in diam. and much 

 branched, pubescent. Fruit when didymous "2 to '25 in. across ; when 

 single-seeded and globular about half as much. 



Malacca: Maingay (K.D.) 939. 



Known only from Maingay's two specimens in Herb. Kew. The above descrip- 

 tion is mainly copied from Sir Joseph Hooker's. 



37. Gardeniopsis, Miq. 



Shrubby or sub-arboreous, glabrous, with stout branches. Leaves 

 very coriaceous, oblauceolate, many-nerved ; stipules lanceolate, cadu- 

 cous. Flowers in small somewhat supra-axillary clusters without bracts 

 or bracteoles. Calyx small, its tube cylindric; the limb with 5 spread- 

 ing lobes. Corolla much larger than the calyx (1 in. or more in length) ; 

 its tube widely cylindric, less than half as long as the limb ; lobes of 

 limb large, ovate, imbricate. Stamens 5, inserted near the base of the 

 corolla-tube ; the anthers linear, acuminate, included. Stijle short, stigma 

 fusiform acute ; ovary 2-celled with 1 ovule in each cell. Fruit broadly 

 ovoid, rugulose, with 10 broad bold ridges, its sub-truncate apex 

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