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1. Mezzettu i.eptopopa, Oliver in Hook. Ic. PI. t. 15G0. A tree : 
young branches dark-coloured, glabrous, striate, rather stout. Leaves 
coriaceous, oblong or narrowly elliptic, obtusely acuminate or acute ; 
the base rounded or acute; upper surface glabrous, shining; the lower 
dull, obscurely reticulate ; main nerves 8 or 9 pairs, forming wide arches 
far from the margin, very faint ; length 2 5 to 4 in., breadth 1 to l'7o 
in. t petiole 35 in. Flowers 5 in. long, on long slender pedicels in axil- 
lary fascicles of 2 to 6 ; pedicels '5 to 75 in., pubescent : bracteoKs 
minute. Sepals broadly ovate, connate at the base, tomentose, renexed. 
Petals tomentose, on both surfaces ; the outer linear, obtuse, '2 in, long ; 
the inner shorter and broader. Ovary ovoid. Ripe carpels unknown, 
Lonchomera leptopoda, H. f. and Th. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 94. 
Malacca : Maingay (Kew Distrib.) No. 102. 
This plant is very imperfectly known. The carpels associated with 
Maingay '.s specimen* do not agree with his description of them (Fl. Br. 
End. I, 94) and they are evidently those of some species of Poly alt hia. 
2. Mezzettia Hkrveyana, Oliver Hook. Ic. Plant, t. 1560. A tree ; 
young branches rather stout, nodose, glabrous. Leaves coriaceous, ellip- 
tic-oblong, shortly acuminate, the base cuneate, both surfaces glabrous, 
the upper shining; main nerves about 10 pairs, spreading, inter-arching 
within the margin, faint; length 25 to 3 in., breadth 1 to 125 in., 
petiole "25 to 35 in. Flowers 4 in. hmg, rather crowded, in sessile axillary 
or extra-axillary fascicles of 3 to 8: pedicels *3 in. long, puberulous, 
ebrae-teohitc. Sepals broadly ovate, obtuse, connate at the base, pubes- 
cent like the petals. Outer petals ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, Bat, the inner 
smaller, broadly elliptic, obtuse, the tips incurved. Anthers sessile, 
obovate- quadrate, about 12. Ovary oblong, tapering into the style : 
ovules 2, superposed. Ripe carpels unknown. 
Malacca : H ervey. 
3. Mezzettia Cljktisii, King n. sp. A tree, 30 to 40 feet high : young 
branches cinereous, rugose. Leaves thinly coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate 
or oblong, more or less acuminate, the base acute ; both surfaces gla- 
brous ; the upper shining, the lower dull ; main nerves about 10 pairs, 
spreading, faint ; length 2 5 to 5 in., breadth *5 to 1*5 in., petiole "25 in. 
Flowers *25 in. long, in crowded, sessile, axillary or extra-axillary fascicles 
of 5 to 1U ; pedicels slender, cbraeteolate, scurtily pubescent, '35 to -6 
in. long. Sepals semi-orbicular, with reflexed tips, connate and forming 
■iprcading, shallow cup, densely and minutely tomentose. Outer petals 
ligulate, acute, tomentose like the sepals but with a glabrous patch at 
the base inside. Inner petals like the outer, but less acute and one-third 
shorter. Stamens about 12, short, about as broad as long, the connec- 
tive very broad, truncate at the apex. Ovary solitary, broadly ovoid. 
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