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374, anil 37?. M, scleropkylla, Thwaites Ennm. 407 ; Beddome 1. c, 
xxiii. M. Nagana, Gard. in Calc. Journ. Nat. ilisfc. vii, 4. 
In all the Provinces. Diatrib. Eastern and Southern provinces 
of British India; Ceylon: often cultivated. 
A variable species to which many names have been given. A form 
with narrow leaves (*5 in. broad) and small flowers is found in Ceylon, 
and was distinguished by Thwaites as var. anyusiifulia (M. saliciua, 
PL and Tri.). In other forms from Ceylon and the South of India, the 
loaves havo very little of the characteristic wkito waxy powder on their 
uudcr surfaces ; and these formed the bases of PJanchon and Triaua*R 
species M. pulchella, and of Wight's M. Coromandeliana, 
2. Mesua i.epidota, T. Anders, in Hook. fil. WL Br. Ind. I, 288. 
A slender glabrous tree, 60 to 80 feet high ; the branches pale brown, 
the youngest minutely rugose when dry. Leaves coriaceous, shining, 
narrowly elliptic or oblong- lanceolate, the apex shortly acuminate, the 
base acute ; lowor surfaco palo, nerves indistinguishable but the midrib 
prominent on both surfaces ; length 2 to 3 in., breadth '75 to 12 in., 
petiole *15 in. Flowers unknown. Fruit solitary, terminal, pedicellate, 
broadly ovoid or depressed-globular when young, slightly pointed when 
mature, apieulate, 1 in. or more in diam., subtended at the base by the 
4 lignitied sub-rotund spreading sepals : pericarp thick, woody, rugulose, 
dehisciug vertically by 2 (rarely 3) pointed valves. Seeds two, plano- 
convex, or one depressed-globose; the testa brown, brittle; pedicels 
1 to 1*5 iu. long, thickened upwards, and with several minute subulate 
deciduous bracts at their bases. 
Malacca; Griffith (Kcw Distrib. No. 845). Perak ; Scorteohini, 
No. 183 A , King's Collector, Nos. 4551 and 5881. 
It is suggested in Fl. Br. Ind. (I, 278) that Griffith's No, 845, 
although now put with Mesua, is probably the type of a new genus 
between Kayea and Mesua, Griffith's specimens have no flowers, and 
unfortunately neither have those of the Perak collectors, The Urttei 
appear to belong to the same plant as Griffith's ; but their leaves are 
rather smaller, the branch lets more slender, and the pericarp slightly 
thinner. It may therefore be found, when fuller material is forthcoming, 
that there are two species here, and that neither belongs to Mesua. 
Order XV. TERNSTRCEMIAGE^E. 
Shrubs rarely climbing, or trees. Leaves alternate, simple (in 
Indian species) entire or often sorrate, usually coriaceous, cxstipulato. 
Flowers handsome, seldom small, usually subtended by 2 sepal-like 
bracts, rarely dicliuous, axillary, 1 or more together, rarely in lateral or 
terminal racemes or panicles, ffqpofe 5, rarely 4-7, free or slightly con- 
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