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[3inmsa 



t. 202a., a small glabrous tree of Sikkim, 2,500-6000 ffc., Assam and the Klaasi hills, 

 leaves lanceolate acuminate 5-7 m., ripe carpels cylmdric I in. long. 3. M. Wightiana, 

 Hook. f. & Tlioms. ', Bedd Ic. PI. Ind. Or t. 86 ", Ann. iv t 202b, a small glabrous tree 

 of the Tinnevelli and Travancore hills, leaves 2-4 in , ripe carpels J in. long. Two 

 glabrous shrubs : 4. M. nilagirica, Bedd. 1 c i. 88 ; Ann. iv. t. 203a, of the Nilgiris. 

 Leaves 2-4 in. long. 5. M. mdica, Lesch •, Bedd. l.c t. 85 ; Ann. iv. t. 205. Evergreen 

 forests fromKanara to Malabar, leaves 2 m , ripe carpels } in. long, purple. 



6. Mo Roxburghiana, Hook. f. & Thorns. ; Ann. iv. t. 189b. 



A tree; attains 50 ft., branchlets softly pubescent. Leaves lanceolate, long- 



FxG» 3. — Miliusa Eoxburghiana, Hook. f. & Thorns. Leaf, fl., fruit. J. 



acuminate, 3-6 in. Fl. dicBcious or polygamous, sepals and 3 ouier petals 

 green, lanceolate or linear, reflexed, inner petals obtuse, fleshy, ^ in. long, daik 

 greenish-red. Ripe carpels nearly gbbose, I in. diam. on slender stalks. Seed 

 1, rarely 2. 



Snbhimalayan tract in Sikkim, ascending to 2,000 ft , As-'iam., Ciiittagong hills, 

 Burma. PL H.S. M. tristis^'KuTz F. Fl, i. 47, possibly a vaxiety Auth larger leaves 

 and flowers. 



3. PH^ANTHUS, Hook. fil. & Thorns. ; M. Brit. Ind. i 72. 



Trees or shrubs, often climbing, the outer petals small like the sepals, the 

 inner large, fiat, cox-iaceous, ovate-triangular from a broad base. Stamens 

 numerous, anther cells distant, connective broad, obtuse, often produced beyond 

 anthers. Ovaries numerous, style cyliudrio or clavate, ovules 1-2. Bipe 

 carpels stalked, 1-seeded. 



1. P, andamanicus, King, Ann. iv. t. 201aj Andamans. Leaves thin, elliptic-lanceolate 

 acuminate, glabrous, 5-7 in., secondary nex^ves slender, nearly at right angles to 

 midxnb, not much more pi^ominent than tertiaiy nerves and intra-mai'ginal veins. 



2. P. malabaricus, Bedd- Ic. PL Ind. Or. t. 36c. Ann. t. 201b. South Wainad, 2,000 ft. 

 Outer petals twice as large as sepals, inner red, thick and fleshy, twice the size of the 

 outex\ 



4 SAGE.RJEA, Dalz. ; Gen. PL i. 22. 



Glabrons evergreen tx^ees or shrixbs, leaves shining coriaceous, second, nerves 

 not much more prominent than intermediate and tertiary nerves. EL globose, 

 bisexual or unisexual, fasciculate on wocdy tubercles, often on the old wood. 

 Sepals small, connate at base or fx^ee and si igbtly imbricate. Petals injbricate^ 



