130 D. Pram — Mezoneuron from the Andaman Group. [No. 1, 



tapering to the curved, truncate stigma, 2-ovuled. Ripe carpels unknown. 



Penang, on Government Hill at 1,200 feet ; Curtis, No. 2266. 



A species with rather longer, thinner leaves than M. Herveyana, 

 and a different calyx. 



II. — Novicia? Indicae V. An undescribed Mezoneuron from the Andaman 

 Group. — By D. Prain. 



When in the Andamans in 1889 and again in 1890 and 1891 the 

 writer met with a species of Mezoneuron which occurs rather frequently 

 in the neighbourhood of Port Blair and which has not hitherto been 

 described. During each of these visits only fruiting specimens were 

 obtained ; at length, however, the native collectors who are under the 

 care of Mr. E. H. Man have sent flowering specimens to Calcutta. The 

 subjoined synopsis, in which the position of the new species among the 

 Indian Mezoneura described by Mr. Baker, in the Flora of British India, 

 257-259, is shown, is followed by a description of the plant. 



MEZONEURON, Desp. 

 Calyx deeply cleft, disk basal (§ Eumezoneuron) 

 filaments hirsute : — 



pods one-seeded, filaments faintly ciliate ; 

 leaflets glabrous, rigid, opposite, 8-10, 

 large, ovate, acute; calyx glabrous ... M. cucullatum. 

 pods several-seeded, filaments densely pilose : — 

 leaflets glabrous : — 



leaflets rigid, alternate, 8-10, large, 



obovate, retuse ; calyx glabrous M. andaraanicnm . 

 leaflets membranous : — 



leaflets alternate, 14-16, small, 

 oblong, obtuse ; calyx exter- 

 nally puberal ous ... M. glabrum. 

 leaflets opposite, 18-22, small, 

 oblong, obtuse ; calyx glabrous M. ennea/phyllum. 

 leaflets pubescent ; membranous, opposite, 

 12-16, oblong, obtuse ; calyx externally 

 and internally pubescent ... M. pubescent. 

 Cl lyx shallowly cleft, disk extending above tbc 

 base (§ Tubicaltx) ; filaments glabrous, pods 

 several seeded ; leaflets glabrous, rigid, opposite, 

 8-10, large, obovate-oblong ; calyx glabrous ... M. sumat cannm 



