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1. MARLEA, Roxb. 
(An Indian name of one of the genus.) 
(Rhytidandra, A. Gray : l'seudalangium, F. v. M.) 
Calyx-limb minutely toothed. Petals narrow-linear. Stamens the same 
number as petals, the filaments adhering to the petals at the base and connecting 
them in an apparently tubular corolla ; anthers adnate, long and linear. Ovary 
1 or 2-celled ; style filiform, with a 2 or 1-lobed or capitate stigma. Drupe 
often reduced to 1 cell and seed. — Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate. Flowers 
in axillary cymes. 
Besides the Australian species, which is also in the islands of the South Pacific, there are 
several others in tropical Asia and Africa. — Bentli. 
1. IVI. vitiensis (of Viti), Benth. FI. Austr. iii. 38b. A tree, attaining a 
considerable height, glabrous or the young branches pubescent or villous. Leaves 
ovate, ovate-lanceolate, or oblong, shortly acuminate, more or less oblique and 
unequal at the base or rarely equal, 3 to 5in. long, glabrous or slightly pubescent 
underneath in the normal form. Flowers in short axillary cymes on slender 
peduncles, rarely much exceeding the petioles. Calyx-limb cup-shaped, about 
§ line diameter. Petals 4 to 6, varying in length from 4 to 6 lines, connected 
by the stamens up to from J to A their length, revolute at the ends. Filaments 
villous ; anthers about the length of the corolla, the valves involute, dividing each 
cell into 2 before they open and marked with transverse constrictions, which give 
them the appearance of being chambered. Disk cup-shaped, enclosing the base 
of the style. Style divided at the end into 2 linear stigmatic lobes. Ovary 
1 -celled with 1 ovule. Drupe ovoid, about iin. long. — Rhytidandra vitiensis, A. 
Gray, Bot. Amer. Expl. Exped. i. 303 t. 28, and in Proc. Amer. Acad. vi. 55 ; 
Pseudolangium pohjosmoides, F. v. M. Fragm. ii. 84 ; Rhi/tiiUnuIra polyosuioides, 
F. v. M. Fragm. ii. 176. 
Hab.: Rockingham Bay and Herberton district (both forms), J. F. Bailey. 
The apparently chambered anthers are not really so, and traces of the constrictions may often 
be seen in M. begonifolia, the latter differs also in the large thick disk, the *2-celled ovary, and 
shortly 4-lobed style; but M. barbata has the thick disk with a 1-celled ovary and 2-lobed style, 
and an unpublished Malayan species has a small disk, with a 1-celled ovary, and almost entire 
style, all these distinctions proving thus to be specific, not generic. — Benth. 
Var. tomentosa. Musk-wood. “ Cartalogoor,” Herberton, J. F. Bailey. Softly villous all 
over, or the upper side of the leaves alone glabrous. Flowers villous, the petals more deeply 
free than usual.— Fitzroy River. l'hozet : Rockhampton, DaUaclnj ; Moreton Bay. W. Hill. The 
wood of the variety is of a yellow colour towards the bark, but a large portion of the centre-wood 
is brownish-black ; close in grain, and when freshly cut has a somewhat Musk-like fragrance ; 
an excellent wood for cabinet-work. Bailey's Cat. QI. Woods No. 237. 
