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imbricate ; the tube adnate to the ovary, sometimes with resinous lines. 
Corolla shortly campanulate, 4-5-lobed ; the lobes usually as long as 
the tube or rather shorter, rounded with indexed tips, sometimes 
resinous-lineate. Stamens 4 or 5, inserted on the corolla-tube ; fila- 
ments short ; anthers introrse, oblong-cordate. Ovary adnate to the 
calyx-tube ; style short ; stigma small, entire or shortly 3-5-lobed ; 
ovules numerous, placenta globose. Fruit small, dry or fleshy, ovoid 
or subturbinate, crowned with the persistent style, many-seeded. 
Seeds numerous, angular, immersed in hollows of the placenta, and 
arranged around it with hexagonal surfaces, embryo small, oblique or 
transverse, cotyledons narrowly ovate. — Distrib. Species over 100 
(according to Mez), chiefly in the tropical regions of the Old World, 
a few in Australia and the Pacific Islands ; all the Malayan species 
belonging to sub-genus Eiuncesa, Mez. 
Leaves entire : — 
Flowers in large terminal leafy panicles ; branches of the 
inflorescence pubescent . . 
Flowers in large axillary or pseudo-terminal panicles of 
racemes ; branches of inflorescence glabrous . . 
Leaves faintly lobed : — 
Leaves very slightly dentate, almost coriaceous, under 3-5 in. 
long, midrib and main-nerves very prominent ; inflorescence 
as long as or only a little shorter than leaves 
Leaves membranous, over 4 in. long : — 
Leaves pale when dry, under 3 in. broad, distantly den- 
tate, inflorescence longer than the petiole 
Leaves dull green when dry, over 4 in. broad, inflorescence 
scarcely longer than the petiole 
Leaves prominently dentate 
1. 31. macrothyna. 
2. AT. ramentacea. 
3. 31. impressinervis. 
4. 31. striata. 
5. 31. pahangiana. 
6. 31. indica. 
1. MiESA macrothyrsa, Miq. PI. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 573 (1862). A 
slender climbing shrub reaching 30 to 50 feet in length ; branches brown, 
somewhat angled and flexuose, striate. Leaves entire, chartaceous ; 
elliptic, shortly bluntly acuminate at apex, rounded at base ; smooth and 
dull on both surfaces ; 3 to 4 in. long, 1*5 to 2 in. broad ; midrib promi- 
nent, impressed above ; main-nerves 5 to 7 pairs, distant, starting from 
the midrib at about 60° and curving upwards ; secondary nerves and 
reticulations indistinct ; petiole '5 to *7 in. long, channelled above by 
the decurrent margins of the blade. Inflorescence a large leafy terminal 
many-flowered tripinnate panicle, the branches rusty pubescent ; pedi- 
cels about -025 in. long, supported by a slightly shorter ovate-acute 
bract, and bearing 2 similar bracteoles below the flowers. Calyx 
superior, cupular ; lobes 4, occasionally 5, rounded, denticulate, *04 in. 
long, gland-dotted ; tube very short. Corolla dull white or pink, longer 
than calyx ; tube as long as lobes ; lobes 4 or 5, rounded, often with 
