184 



(4) M. PLEXtJOSA. (R. Wight.) 



Ident. Wight Icon. vol. 5. p. 2. p. 23.— Dec. 1. c. p. 1010. 



Engrav. "Wight Icon. t. 1949. fig. 3. 



Spec. Chae. Tree : branches of the male inflorescence flexuose : 

 bracts leafy at the axils of the panicles, rhomb-ovate, acuminate, 

 coarsely cut and serrated, lanceolate-linear from the triangular 

 base of the glomerules, ending in a thick gland : segments of the 

 male calyx orbicular-elliptic, entire : stigma broad, torn, crenated : 

 ovary adpresaed. 



Courtallum. 



(5) M. TOMENTOSA. {B. Wight.) 



Ident. "Wight's Icon. vol. 5. p. 2. p. 23.— Dec. 1. c. p. 1010. 



Mtigrmi. "Wight's Icon. t. 1949. fig. 1. 



Spec. Chae. Tree : young parts obscurely rusty -tomentose : 

 stipules largish, triangular-ovate, acuminate, rusty-pubescent : 

 leaves orbiculate-ovate, acute, broadly round from a peltate base, 

 rusty-tomentose, afterwards puberulous, beneath sprinkled with 

 brown, shining glands : inflorescences axiUary, half equalling the 

 leaves, straight, shortly branched, racemiform, interruptedly 

 glomeriile-flowered : bracts denticulate, males rhomb-ovate, many- 

 flowered, females afterwards ovate, 1 — 2-flowered, cuneate at the 

 base : segments of the male calyx cuneate-obovate : ovary much 

 incurved : stigma subovoid, obtuse,' deflexed : filaments 3, free : 

 seeds globose, smooth. 



Malabar and Travancore. 



(6) M. PELTATA. (Muller.) 



Ident. Dec. 1. c. p. 1010. 



Sgn. Osyris peltata, Boxh.Jlor. Ind. III. p. 755. — M. Eox- 

 burghii, B. Wight. — M. "Wightiana, Baill. Etud. gin. Euph. 

 p. 432.— Mappa (P) peltata, B. Wight. 



Engrav. "Wight's Icon. t. 817 and 1949. fig. iv. 



Spec. Chae. — Tree : leaves orbiculate-ovate, short acuminate, 

 rounded at the base : stamens 3 : bracts toothed, males ovate, 

 acute, many-flowered, females elliptic-lanceolate, 1— 2-flowered : 

 segments of the male calyx ovate, acuminate : ovary [incurved, 

 dotted with glands. 



Circar mountains. 



(7) M. iNTOiucEATA. (Muller.) 



Ident. Dec. 1. c. p. 1011. 



Spec. Chae. Female bracts 2 — 3-flowered, leafy, subpetioled. 



