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Desciiptlvo Notes on Piqnian Phints. 
MYRTACE/E. 
Tkistania macrospehma. 
Leaves scattered or few of the upper opposite^ oval-lanceolai’j soon 
glabrous ; cymes paniculate 5 peduncles, pedicels and petioles as well as 
the }■ oung branchlets finely tomentose 5 lobes of the calyx deltoid, 
hardly half as long as the tube, the latter almost glabrous; base of the 
petals and the short connate portions of the stamens fnely downy ; 
filaments in each bundle 11-13 ; stigma hardly broader than the style ; 
valves of the capsule half exserted ; fertile seeds winged at oneendxis 
well as the sterile ones large and flat. 
Geelvink-Bay ; Dr, Beccari. 
Well developed leaves 2-3 inches long, unless the upper ones smaller, 
attenuated into a slender petiole of ^ an inch or less length ; pellucid 
punctures hardly visible. Panicles trichotomous, terminal. Pedicels 
mostly shorter than the calyx; tube of the latter while petal-bearing 
about 1-| line long. Petals scarcely above 1 line broad, their color 
probably white or pale. Stamens longer than the petals ; their united 
portion shorter than the filaments ; anthers roundish-oval, versatile, 
opening by anterior longitudinal slits. Style capillary, about 2 lines 
long. Fruit three-valved, 3-4 lines high. Seeds forming one circular 
row, 11 or less in each cell, pendent from the placentas which terminate 
the finally seceding central column, filling the cavity to the bottom, both 
fertile and sterile of about equal size, brown, oval-semiorbicular, 1 ^- 2 J 
lines long. 
In external appearance the Papuan species resembles much T, suaveo- 
lens (Sm. in Rees’s C^xl. 1817); but the base of the })etnls and stamens 
is not unbearded, the number of filaments in each bundle is less, the 
stigma is not peltate-dilated, the fruit-valves are not remaining in height 
equal with the calyx tube, while the seeds are much less numerous, much 
larger and neither spreading nor very slender, but the fertile ones pro- 
vided with a membranous appendage. Whether considerable distinctions 
exist in bark and wood, remains to be ascertained. In some respects the 
approach of this new plant is nearer to T. exiliflora (F, v. M. Fragm. v. 
11 ), notwithstanding the narrower leaves, the minute flowers, paucity 
of stamens and turgid and shorter seeds of the hitter. Among Indian 
congeners the Papuan one ditfers from T. obovata (Bennett in llorsf. 
PL Javan. Rarior, 127, t. xxvii.) in acute leaves, longer ]»etioles, lurger 
