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cence a simple axillary raceme, as long as or slightly longer than the 
petiole; pedicels slender, about -1 in. lohg, supported by a minute 
subulate bract below and with two similar bracteoles below the flower. 
Calyx superior, cupular, with a very short tube and 5 triangular 
imbricate teeth -6 in. long, glabrous, hyaline at the edges and very 
faintly brown-glandular. Corolla as long as calyx ; lobes 5 imbricate, 
glabrous, rounded, somewhat crenate, with 2 to 3 prominent brown 
glandular lineoles ; tube half the length. Stamens nearly as long as 
corolla, inserted near its base ; filaments about twice as long as the 
anthers ; anthers emarginate, cells somewhat divaricate. Fruit globose 
with a conical tip surrounded by the remains of the corolla and the 
persistent calyx, and surmounted by the short persistent style, ribbed, 
•125 in. in diam., glabrous. 
Pahang : at Tanjong Antan, Ridley 2175a. 
Only one specimen is unfortunately available, and that in fruit, with only remains 
of flowers. 
6. M^isa indica, Wall, in Roxb. FI. Ind. ed. Carey & Wall. II. 230 
(1824). A shrub reaching 4 to 6 feet in height ; branchlets brown, smooth, 
lenticellate. Leaves chartaceous ; elliptic or elliptic-oblong, acuminate, 
rounded or acute at the base ; repand-dentate, about 3 teeth to each 
main-nerve ; 3 to 7 in. long, 2 to 3 in. broad ; midrib very prominent, often 
broad ; main-nerves 8 to 12 pairs, others closely reticulate ; glandular 
striae long, prominent ; petiole - 5 to 1 in. long, channelled above by the 
decurrent bases of the blade. Inflorescence of simple or compound 
axillary racemes, much shorter than the leaves, usually 1 to 3 in. long ; 
pedicels slender, -05 to 1 in. long, longer in fruit ; bracts subulate, in 
flower as long as pedicels; bracteoles 2, minute. Calyx superior, with 
5 imbricate lobes, which are ovate, ciliate, striate, about -04 in. long, 
almost acute or rounded at apex. Corolla as long as calyx ; lobes denti- 
culate, glandular- striate; tube as long as lobes. Stamens inserted at base 
of corolla-tube ; anthers ovate, cells divaricate ; filaments dorsifixed, 
rather longer than anthers. Ovary rounded ; style short cylindric, 
stigma obtuse; ovules many. Fruit round, smooth, striate, - 15 in. 
long, crowned at the summit by the persistent calyx-lobes and the 
remains of the stigma. Seeds angular. A. DO. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 
XVII. 134, Prod. VIII. 80 (in part)-, Wall. Cat. 2318 B. ; Clarke in 
Hook. f. FI. Br. Ind. III. 509 (in part) ; Koord. & Val. Bijd. V. 222 ; 
Mez Monog. Myrs. 29. Bceobotrys indica , Roxb. Hort. Beng. 16, FI. 
Ind. I. 557. 
Perak: Wray 3314, 3349; Scortechini 16, 733; Ridley 3007,. 
9741 ; King's Collector 7712. — Distrib. Burma, Java. 
