Kayea.] xxiii. GUTTlFERiE. (T. Anderson.) 277 



bracteolate. Beddome Flor. Sylvai. t. 102, K cuspidata, Planch. & Trian. 

 Mem. Gvaif. 268. 



SoutheTD districts of Ceylon, Thwaites. 



A large glabrons tree; bark dark-grey; branoUets terete, reddisli. ieaacg 2-3 by 

 \-\ in., rigid ; veins arched, very faint on both surfaces ; petiole J-J in., slender. 

 Jlacemes from the upper axils, bracteoles subulate. Mowers small. Stamens, many, 

 filaments capillary, persistent, exceeding the sepals. Fruit the size of a small chestnut, 

 covered by the coriaceous accrescent calyx, tipped by the thickened short style. 



4. XL. nervosa, T. Anders. ; leaves elliptic-oblong or oblong-lanceolate 

 acuminate cuspidate; flowers solitary or 1-3 axillary or terminal. Mesua 

 nervosa, Planch. & Trian. Mem. Gicttif. 279. 



Tenasserim PE0V1NCE8, at Mergui and Mai-taban, Qriffith, Pairigh. Malacca, 



Young branches minutely tuberoled, suVi^angular ? Leaves 4^5 by 14-2 in., thin, 

 membranous, base rounded, shining above, coppery beneath ; veins distinct, \ in. apart, 

 arched, depressed on the upper surface ; petiole J in. Flowers 1 J in. diam., pedicels . 

 1-24 i°'i tubercled. Outer sepals J in., thick and coriaceous, suboibicular, inner nearly 

 twice as large. Petals cuneate-obovate. Filaments, capillary, nearly equalling the 

 pistil. Style slender, thickened after flowering, stigma deeply 4-cleft. 



5. nXESVA, Linn. 



Trees. Leaves opposite, rigidly coriaceous, often pellucid-dotted ; veins 

 innumerable, very slender, at right angles to the midrib, Flrnmrs polyga- 

 mous or hermaphrodite, large, axillary, solitary. Sepals and Petals 4 each, 

 imbricate. Stamens very numerous, filaments filiform free or connate at the 

 base ; antbers erect, oblong, 2-celled, dehiscence vertical. Ovary 2-celled ; 

 style long, stigma peltate ; ovules 2 in each cell, erect. Fruit between fleshy 

 and woody, 1 -celled by the absorption of the septum, at lengtb 4-valved, 

 1-4-seeded. &e& without an aril, testa fragUe. — ■Distjjib. Tropical Asia; 

 3 species. 



1. nx. ferrea, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. i 662; leaves drooping linear-lanceolate 

 acute or acuminate, peduncles short stout. Ghois. GvM,%f. Ind. 40 ; Planch. & 

 Trian. Mem. Guttif. 271 ; Roxb. Ft. Ind. ii. 605; W.& A. Prodr. 102; Wall. 

 Cat. 4834; Wight III. 127, Ic. t. 118; Beddome Fbr. Sylvat. Gen. xxiii. 

 M. speciosa, Ghois. in DC. I.e. ; Guttif. Ind. 40 ; Wight Ic. t. 961 ; Wall. 

 Cat. 4835 : Beddome l.c. xxiii. M. pedunculata Wight III. 127, Ic. t. 119. 

 M. coromandeliana, Wight III. 129, Ic. t. 117; Beddome Flor. Sylvat. t. 64. 

 M. Roxburghii, Wight III. 127 ; Beddome I.e. xxiii. M. salicina,*M. Walkeriana 

 and M. pulchella, Planch. & Trian. l.c. 373, 374, and 379. M. sclerophylla, 

 Thwaites Enum. 407 ; Beddiyme l.c. xxiii. M, Nagana, Gard. in Oalc. Journ. 

 Nat. Hist. viii. 4. 



Mountains of Easteew Benoal, the Easteen Himalaya, and the- Eastern and 

 Western Peninsolas, and Andaman IsLiNDs ; cultivated elsewhere in India. 



A middling-sized glabrous tree; trunk, erect,, straighit; twigs slender, sub-4-angled. 

 Leaves 3-6 by IJto If in., base acute orrocunded, dai-k-green and shining above, covered 

 mcire or less with fine waxy meal beneath; veins very fine, close-set, and equally incon- 

 spicuous on both surfaces ; petiole J-J, in. Flowers f-3 in. diam., usually^ terminal 

 and solitary or in pairs. Sepals orbicular, thick, with membranous margins, inner pair 

 largest. Peieits 4, spreading, cuneate-obovate, pure white. Anthers large, oblong, 

 golden-yellow. Fruit ovoid, conical-pointedy size variable, often of a large chestnut; 

 base surrounded by the persistent sepals, 1-4-seeded, Seeds dark-brown,,testa smooth. 

 —A very variable plant, the absence of the pruinose under-eurface of the leaves is by 



