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small lobules between, denticulate, with about 3 to 4 glandular lineoles. 
Stamens inserted near the base of the corolla-tube; anthers globose; 
filaments about twice as long aS anthers. Ovary rounded, depressed, 
crowned with a short cylindric style and obtusely 3-4-lobed stigma. 
Fruit very small, '05 in. in diam., globose, glabrous, faintly striate, 
crowned about one-tliird of the way down with the persistent calyx- 
teeth. Seeds very minute, angled. Scheff. Myrs. 29 ; Mez Monog. 
Myrs. 49. M. floribunda, Scheff. Myrs. 18. M. Korthalsiana, Scheff. 
Myrs. 18 (?) 
‘ Pekak : Wray 2684 ; Scortechini 122, 1655 ; King’s Collector 725, 
2722, 3777, 4968, 5326. — Disteib. Sumatra, Korthals, Beccari 887 ; 
Borneo, de Vriese, Teysmami. 
We have always found the flowers tetramerous, as described by Miquel and 
Scheffer. Mez describes them as either 4- or 5-merous. This is a well-marked 
species on account of its large terminal inflorescence, whose pubescent branches easily 
distinguish it from those occasional forms of M. ramentacea, which have part of the 
inflorescence pseudo-terminal. 
2. MiESA eamentacea, Wall, in Roxb. FI. Itid. ed. Carey & Wall. II. 
231 (1824). A large shrub or small tree, usually branched from the 
base and sending out many straggling or climbing branches often 
30 to 40 feet long or more ; branchlets smooth, somewhat striate when 
dry. Leaves entire, chartaceous ; ovate-lanceolate or elliptic, acuminate 
at apex, rounded or cordate at base ; 3 to 8 in. long, 1'5 to 4 in. broad ; 
smooth on both surfaces and generally shining above ; midrib promi- 
nent, often impressed above ; main-nerves slender', distant, 5 to 10 pairs, 
starting at 45° with the midrib and curved upwards ; secondary nerves, 
and reticulations not apparent : petiole ’3 to -5 in. long, slightly winged 
by the decurrent margins of the blade, which are often connivent 
above. Inflorescence axillary or sometimes pseudo-terminal, glabrous, 
many-flowered, consisting of more or less closely packed racemes 
arranged in bipinnate panicles, shorter or longer than the leaves ; pedi- 
cels -1 to -15 in. long, slender, supported by a minute lanceolate bract 
and with 2 very minute ovate-lanceolate braeteoles below the flower; 
buds minute, globose, depressed at top. Calyx superior, cupular; tube 
very short, about -025 in. long ; lobes 5, ovate, faintly ciliate, as long as 
the tube. Corolla '075 in. long; lobes half the length, ovate or ovate- 
reniform, edges undulate, with a few brown glandular lineoles. Stamens 
short, longer in ? flowers, inserted a little below the top of the tube ; 
anthers rounded, filaments as long as the anthers, dorsifixed. Ovary 
in ? flowers adnate to the base of the calyx-tube, style short, stigma, 
minutely 4-lobed, ovules many. Fruit globose, -1 to -15 in. long, 
crowned with the persistent teeth of the calyx ; seeds minute, angled. 
