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nate at the base : stamens about 80 : ovary 4-celled, rusty -tomen- 

 tose, at length softly echinately tubercled : tubercles floccose : 

 capsules echinate : seeds ellipsoid, very lightly tubercled. 

 Silhet. Assam. Mysore. Carnatic. Canara. 



(4) M. MTJBiOATus. (Muller.) 



Idmt. MuU. Arg. 1. c. p. 191.— Dec. 1. c. p. 972. 



Syn. Olaoxylon muricatum, B. PFiy/j^.-^Axenfeldia inter- 

 media, Bail. JStud. gin. Ev/ph. p. 419. — Eottlera muricata, 

 Thwaites Envmt. pi. Zeyl. p. 273. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1886. 



Spec. Chae. Small tree : young parts densely covered with 

 rusty, shining, resinous, small discs : leaves short-petioled, bi- 

 maculate at the base above, lanceolate-elliptic, acuminate, obtuse 

 or subacute with a narrowed base, repand-toothed, stiffly mem- 

 branaceous : flowers spicately racemose : female racemes long, 

 terminal, soon made axillary by the development of the uppermost 

 branches, males sometimes very large, and then pale and densely 

 imbricated with bracts : bracts short, broad, concave : male calyx 

 globose : segments 3, suborbiculate, segments of the female calyx 

 narrow lanceolate, shortly connate at the base : stamens about 50 : 

 ovary globose, muricate-echinate : prickles soft, hairy: capsule 

 echinate. 



Courtallum. Belgaum. 



(5) M. sxENANTHrs. {MulUr.') 



Ident. Mull. Arg. 1. c. — Dec. 1. c. 



Spec. Chae. Small tree : leaves opposite, unequally petioled, 

 acuminate, acute at the base, repand-toothed or entire, stiffly 

 membranaceous, above at the base many-spotted, beneath resin- 

 ous-dotted : male racemes axillary : flowers almost sessUe : bracts 

 very small, ovate : segments of the male calyx elliptic : stamens 

 18—23. 



Southern Peninsula. 



(6) M. AUEEO-PUNCTATTTS. {Muller.) 



Ident. Dee. 1. c. p. 973. 



Syn: Eottlera aureo-punctata, Dalz. Bomb. Mora p. 230. 



Spec. Chae. Shrub: leaves opposite, not peltate, oblong- 

 obovate, acuminate, attenuated towards the base, short-petioled, 

 glabrous, shining, sprinkled beneath with few hairs and frequent 

 golden-dotted glands : stipules linear, rusty, caducous : racemes 

 shorter than the leaf, females about 4— 5-flowered, axillary and 

 terminal : male flowers fascicled in fives : segments of the female 

 calyx cohering into a spathe cleft on one side : stamens numerous : 



