98 MYRSINEE, [ Mesa. 
%* *& Stamens 5; anther-cells transversely chambered ; fruit 
a dry cylindrical follicle-like curved drupe, rupturing 
irregularly ; seeds elongate, geminating already on the 
tree; albumen none . F : . 3 : . Aigiceras. 
MASA, Forsk) 
Calyx adnate to the ovary, 5-lobed, imbricate in bud. Corolla 
almost bell-shaped, 5-cleft, the lobes blunt, with inflexed tips. 
Stamens 5, free ; anthers cordate, shorter than the filiform filaments. 
Ovary inferior or half-inferior, 1-celled, with several ovules attached 
to the basilar placenta; style short, with a capitate or capitately 
3-5-lobed stigma. Berry small, crowned by the calyx-limb, several- 
seeded.—Trees or shrubs, with alternate pellucid-dotted leaves. 
Flowers small or minute, 2-bracteoled, in simple or compound, 
rarely terminal racemes. Bracts usually very small. 
* All parts, also the inflorescence, quite glabrous. 
X Racemes very short (hardly as long as the petiole) ; 
leaves inconspicuously and remotely callose-toothed ; 
b ts mit wa . E F : . M, verrucosa. 
> X Racemes panicled, very much longer than the petioles. 
© Leaves entire; compound racemes shorter than the 
leaves . . . . ° . e . ms M. ramentacea. 
OO Leaves coarsely serrate. 
Compound racemes shorter than the leaves ; calyx only } lin. long M. Indica. 
Compound racemes very slender, as long or longer than the leaves ; 
calyx nearly a line long ee eeomeey . <54 
% % Inflorescence, and also the softer parts and leaves, pubes- 
cent or otherwise hairy ; leaves sinuately toothed. 
M, paniculata. 
b manu ° . : ° ‘ ‘ * < 
Leaves glabrous, except the sparingly hairy rib beneath ; flowers 
in moss-like densely rusty-hairy panicles much longer than the 
petioles; bracts about as long as the pedicels , ‘ = . WM. muscosa. 
* All parts, also the inflorescence, quite glabrous. 
1. M. verrucosa, Scheff.—An evergreen small tree, all parts 
glabrous, the branchlets verrucose; leaves from elliptically lanceo- 
late to ovate-oblong, on a slender petiole 6-8 lin. long, somewhat 
tapering at the base, 3-5 in. long, acuminate, obsoletely repand 
and the thin lateral nerves excurrent into minute tooth-like callo- 
sities, glabrous, thin-coriaceous, rather glossy ; flowers minute, oD 
2 aline long, afterwards a line long, rather strong pedicels, forming 
FL Map 7 —— on upper mixed forests of South Andaman.— 
