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rounded or truncate-rounded at the 3-5-nerved base, on a densely 
puberulous petiole 1-2 in. er Rie ich an callose-repand- 
toothed, 2-4 in. long, membra above shortly puberulous or 
rough and sparingly sia catel ecenth gland-dotted and more 
or less densely puberulous, the nerves and parallel transverse vein- 
tion thin ; male flowers minute, sessile, Sawin furnished with 
a Di tant toothed, ovate-lanceolate, leafy, acuminate, pubescent 
bract 3-4 lin. long, forming slightly bexashdd, slatsioe or almost 
filiform, greyish puberulous, interrupted, panicled or sometimes simple 
‘spikes in the axils of ue leaves or above the scars of the fallen 
ones ; stamens usually 2 only 
Si Tunnboeriin. 
5. M. populifolia, Muell. Arg—An evergreen tree, the young 
shoots greyish puberulous ; stipules lanceolate, acuminate, puberous 
or puberulous ; leaves ovate to elliptically lanceolate, on a slender 
thinly puberulous petiole 2-3 in. long, rounded at the base, 23-4 
in. long, bluntish and rather abruptly acuminate, imenmbrkhous, 
glabrous or indistinctly puberulous on the nerves beneath, opaquely 
glaucescent and minutely and densely resinous-dotted on the under- 
; flowers minute, densely clustered, bracted and forming 
Has.—Tropical forests of the Andamans. 
M. Andamanica, Kz.—An evergreen small tree, all parts 
eas stipules minute, subulate ; yonres oblong to gto as 
at the narrowed base auricled-rounded, 0 a rather strong pene 
very variable in length ($-14 in.), sin remotely 
repand, chartaceous, 2-5 in. long, glabrous, beneath BR ai 
in the reticulations ; female flowers solitary or few, within 2 leafy 
bracts, on a slender stiff peduncle in the axils of the leaves sud 
usually as long or somewhat shorter than them ; involucre-bracts 
ovate, sessile, about an inch long, bluntish to bluntish acuminate, 
entire ; ovary apparently glabrous, the styles an inch long. 
His .—Tropical forests of the Andamans.—Fl, B.S. 
7. M. membranacea, Kz.—A small, erect, almost simple shrub 
branched - jena 2-4 ft. eg ie young parts puberulous, the 
eee glabrescent and glaucescent-fuscous ; stipules small, 
3 vem ovate to almost oblong-ovate, not peltate, somewhat 
ae r almost sinuate at the 3-nerved rounded base, ona 
