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MESUA, L. 
Flowers ee or hermaphrodite. Sepals and pipe: 4 
each, imbricate. Stam numerous, free or connate at bas 
anthers oblong, 2-celled, "dhiscing vertically. Ovary 2-celled, with 
2 erect ovules in each ce ell ; style long, with a peltate stigma. Drupe 
woody, L-celled by maceration of the cell-walls, 1-4-se eded.—Trees 
with rigidly coriaceous or ee veinless leaves. Flowers large, 
axillary, solitary or clus 
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rous, ae above, beneath covered with a white mealy substance 
or rarely altogether glabrous ; flowers large, 2-3 in. in diameter, pure 
white, on shorter or longer (4-6 lin. long) usually densely puberu- 
lous pedicels, jointed at the insertion of the short, rarely elongate 
peduncle, rarely sessile, solitary, or rarely by 2 or 3 in the axils of 
the leaves and terminal; sepals velvety, enlarging and turning 
almost glabrous; petals broadly obovate; drupes the size of a 
— S egg, ovate, acuminate, striate, usually 1- rarely 2-4-seeded. 
—Frequent in the tropical forests of the Andaman Islands and all over 
Tenasetim ulso Chittagong.—Fl. March; Fr. May-June.—s.—SS.—Metam. 
ng mea —Wood 3 penance the sapwood of eee — —— 
very heavy, hard, much resem the Andaman 
Suitable for machinery, railwa: er sleepers, also for Sipeeer 4 “sed “thie” for 
helves and handles of 1 tools; 2 gunsticks, &e. 
TERNSTROEMIACEA. 
Flowers hermaphrodite or rarely unisexual. Sepals 5, sete 
4-7, free or slightly connate, imbricate. Petals 5, rarely m 
y 4 
pores. One fros or nif faeeee 3-5-celled, with 2 or more not 
orthotropous ovules in each cell ; styles free or connate with usually 
small stigmas. Fruit a berry or capsule, few- or many-seeded. 
Albumen none or scanty, rarely copious. Embryo straight or 
horse-shoe-shaped.—Trees or shrubs, rarely climbing, with alternate 
simple often coriaceous oe Stipules none. Flowers various, 
