-Myrloneuron.] lxxv. eubiacej:. (J. D. Hooker.) 97 



Chittagono, J. D. H. ^ T. T., C. B. Clarice. 



Very near M. nutans, if not a variety of it ; the leaves are much narrower, and 

 ^longer petioled -with fewer and much less prominent obliquely arching nerves, and 

 the bracteoles and calyx-teeth are much more slender and not rigid. 



3. m, an^ustifolium, ITook. f. ; leaves narrowly elliptic-lanceolate 

 : acute, nerves 12-15 pair slender very oljliqiiely arched, bracteoles and calyx- 

 teeth subulate-lanceolate rigid. 



BiEMA ; hills -west of the Hookhoom valley, Griffith. 



This again is very near M. nutans, differing in the form of its leaves and their 

 nervation, but agreeing in the bracteoles and calyx-toetli. 



37. ATTXiAGODISCUS, Hook. f. 



A small glabrous tree, branches thick. Leaves coriaceous ; stipules tri- 

 :aiigular, long-acuminate. Flowers small, polygamous, in short axillary panicled 

 peduncled cymes, ebracteate. Calyx-tube broadly hemispheric; limb short, 

 truncate. CofoUa coriaceous, rotate, 8-16-partite, throat hairy ; segments tri- 

 .-angular, valvate in bud with incurved tips, margins webbed. Stamens 8 or 16, 

 alternate ones irregularly imperfect, filaments flexuous ; anthers minute, 

 didymous. DUh large, prominent, 8-16-lobed, lobes opposite the petals with, 

 hooked tips. Ovary 6-16-celled ; style very sbort, thick, stigma large peltate 

 ■fleshy, e-16-lobed ; ovules numerous, on prominent placentas in the inner angles 

 ■of the cells. Berry small, globose, areolate, usually 8- (6-16-) celled, manj-- 

 :seeded. Seeds minute, subglobose, testa thick crustaceous pitted ; embryo 

 pyriform, in fleshy and oily albumen. 



1. A. premnoides, Hooh. f. in Gen. PI. ii. 71. Axanthes enneandra, 

 Wight in Cale. Journ. Nat. Hist. vii. 144. 



Maiay Peninsula, from Tenasserim or the Andaman Islands, Heifer (Kew 

 Distrib. 2938), to Maiacoa, Griffith, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 938). 



Branches stout, obtusely 4-angled. Leaves 5-9 by l.l-2i in., linear-oblong, acute, 

 pale brown -when dry, nerves numerous ; petiole ^^ in. ; stipules i-J in. Cymes 

 1-li in. diam., corymbose, trichotomoua, pubescent; peduncles J-1 in., suberect; 

 bracts leafy. Flowers Jj in. diam. Berry i in. diam., globose. 



38. trROPKYLiI.V2»X, Wall. 



Trees or bushes with slender terete branches. Flotvers (sometimes uni- 

 sexual) small, in axillaiy sessile or peduncled heads cymes or corymbs, peflicels 

 short bracteolate at the base. Calyx-tube short ; limb cup-shaped, 6- (4r-7-> 

 toothed, persistent. Corolla coriaceous, tube short, throat villous; lobes 5 

 (4-7) triangular, valvate in bud. Stamens 5 (4-7) on the throat of the corolla, 

 filaments short; anthers linear, acute. Ovary 5- (4-7-) celled; style short, 

 often swollen at the base, stigma various ; ovules numerous, placentas attached 

 to the inner angles of the cells. Berry small, 4r-5-celled, many-seeded. Seeds 

 minute, subglobose, testa crustaceous pitted ; embryo clavate, in fleshy albumen. 

 — DiSTEiB. Species about 35, tropical Asiatic and African, and 1 Japanese. 



* Branches and leaves beneath glabrous. (See also Sp. 6, 7, and 8.) 



1. TJ. elliptlcum, Thw. Enum. 419; quite glabrous, leaves 6-9 in. 

 oblono--laiiceolate acuminate, stipules long, cymes sessile dense-fld., flowers uni- 

 sexual glabrous without, petals bearded within. Axanthes elliptica, Wight in. 

 Calc. Jmrn. Nat. Hist. vii. 147, t. 2, f. 3 ; Ic. t. 11G4 ; Thiv. I. c. 139. 

 vox. III. ^ 



