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mentum below: stipulary areolz extended a little beyond the middle 
of the petiole: flower-buds subsessile, densely covered with brown 
tomentum, involute with many deciduous spathes: sepals 3, obo~ 
vate, coriaceous: petals 9-10, narrow-obovate, inner ones by de- 
grees narrewer and shorter: carpels loasely disposed towards the 
rachis, subsessile: seeds 1-4: flowers white. 
Khasia hills, flowering in April and May. 
(3) M. tanvueinosa. ( Wall.) 
Ident. Wall. tent. Flor. Nep. p. 8.-~-Hook. & Thoms. Flor. Ind. 
I. p. 80. 
Syn. M. velutina, Dec. prod. I. p. 79. 
Srzc. Cuan. Younger branchlets tomentose, new ones with the 
leaf-buds and petioles densely straw or ashy-tomentose:. leaves lan- 
ceolate or oblong: peduncles short, densely tomentose: exterior 
sepals and petals narrow obovate-oblong, obtuse, inner ones some- 
what narrower, mucronate or acute: ovary densely tomentose: style 
filiform: carpels arranged on a spike, pedicelled, obovate, verru- 
cose: seeds 1-3: flowers white. 
Khasia hills, flowering in April and May. 
(4) M. ostonea. ( Wall.) 
Ident. Wook. &. Thoms. Flor. Ind. I. p. 81. 
Syn. M. lactea, Ham. Mss. 
Spec. Cuan. Branchlets minutely tubercled: leaves obovate- 
oblong, narrowed at the base, obtusely acuminated at the apex, 
quite glabrous on both sides, shining above, pale or glaucescent 
below: flowers axillary, very shortly-pedicetled, involute with many 
spathes: flower-buds oblong, elongated, glabrous, brown: sepals 
and petals 12, exterior ones. narrow-obovate, interior ones lanceolate. 
In woods towards the base of the Khasia hills. 
(5) M. Punpvana. (H. F. & T.) 
Ident. Hook. & Thoms. Flor. Ind. I. p. 81. 
Syn. Liriodendron liliiferum, Roxb. fl. Ind. II. p. 564. 
Spec. Cuan. Lofty tree: leaves oblong, obtuse or acute at the 
base, abruptly acuminated at the apex, glabrous, paler beneath : 
stipulary cicatrix almost as long as the petiole: flower-buds ovate, 
short-peduncled, brown-silky : spathes 2, involucrate, outer one 
very deciduous, deeply 2-cleft, apiculated at the fork, never leaf- 
bearing : carpels loosely collected on an oblong spike, compressed, 
roundish: seeds 1-2. 
Khasia hills, flowering in November. 
