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narrowly cylindric, the limb with 4 blunt oblong lobes. Fruit globular, 

 glabrous, "25 in. in diam. 



Malacca: Griffith (K.D.) S007 ; Maingay {K.B.) Sh6', Hullett,76B. 



41. MoRiNDA, Linn. 



Shrubby, somtimes scandent ; rarely arboreous. Leaves membranous^ 

 rarely in whorls of three : stipules connate, sheathing. Flowers connate 

 by their calyces, axillary or terminal, simple panicled or umbellate 

 pedunculate heads, Galyx-tuhe short, the limb short or absent. Corolla 

 salver- or funnel-shaped, coriaceous, the tube short ; the limb usually 5- 

 (rarely 4- to 7-) lobed, valvate in bud. Stamens equal in number to the 

 corolla-lobes, on short filaments ; anthers linear or oblong, dorsi-fixed. 

 Ovary 2- or spuriously 4-celled ; style included or exerted, 2-branched : 

 ovules solitary in the ovarian cells, ascending. Fruit formed of the 

 succulent enlarged calyces; the contained pyrenes 1 -seeded, horny or 

 cartilaginous, usually free but 2 or 4 of them sometimes cohering to- 

 gether. Seeds obovoid or reniform, with membranous testa and fleshy 

 or horny albumen ; the embryo terete, radicle inferior. — Distrib. Species 

 about 40, all tropical. 



Erect shrubs or trees, with pulpy infrutescences ... 1. M. citrifolia. 



Large woody climbers : — 



Infrutescence dry, more than 1 to 2 in. in diam., external- 

 ly marked with many large deeply pitted hardened 

 calyces ... ... ... ... ... 2. M. lacunosa. 



Infrutescence about 1 in. in diam., pulpy, smooth, 

 bearing externally a few long narrow soft tubular 

 calyces ... ... ... ... ... 3. M. rigida. 



Infrutescence about '25 in. in diam,, without large pro- 

 truding calyces ... ... ... ... 4. M. umhellata. 



1. MoRiNDA CITRIFOLIA, Linn. Sp. PI. 176. A glabrous small tree 

 or large shrub ; young brances thinner than a goose-quill, obtusely 4- 

 angled, pale-brown. Leaves broadly elliptic, occasionally obovate-elliptic, 

 shortly acuminate, the base cuneate, one of the pair opposite the peduncle 

 often suppressed ; both surfaces pale-brown when dry : main-nerves 

 6 or 7 pairs, curved upwards, thin but slightly prominent on both sur- 

 faces; length 5 to 10 in.; breadth 2*25 to 4*5 in.; petioles '2 to '4 in.; 

 stipules transversely oblong or sub-orbicular, entire or 2- to 3-fid., '3 to 

 •6 in. long. Peduncles axillary, solitary, about '5 in. long, each bearing 

 a many-flowered capitulum 1 to 1.75 in. in diam. Calyx truncate. Co- 

 rolla fusiform in bud : the tube '8 to '5 in. long, pubescent in the throat, 

 otherwise glabrous : limb '5 or '6 in. across, with 5 lanceolate lobes. 

 Anthers with their tips exserted, filaments woolly. Infrutescence when 



