192 xviii. guttifeRvE. [Kayea. 
filaments filiform; anthers oblong 2-celled. Ovary 2-celled; style 
long; ovules'2 in each cell erect. Stigma peltate. Fruit thinly 
woody i-celled, at length 4-valved, 4-seeded. Species 2 or 3, 
tropical Asia. 
(1) M. ferrea Linn. Sp. PI. 73 4; Wight. III. 127, Ic. t. 118; 
King , l.c. 184. 
Usually a tall straggling tree when wild, bush-shaped with short 
stem in cultivation. Leaves linear-lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate 
acute, base acute, deep smooth green above, white or glaucous 
beneath.(when young pink); 3 to 6 in. long, *75 to 1*25 in. wide. 
Flowers 3 in. across. Sepals orbicular fleshy. Petals obovate 
long white. Stamens white; anthers yellow. Very fragrant. 
Fruit ovoid-conic or sub-globose 1 to 2 in. long. Hah. Dry woods 
not rare. Malacca. Negri Sembilan. Pahang. Selangor, Perak. 
Province Wellesley. Penang, Lankawi. Disirib. India, Cambodia, 
Siam. Native names: Matopus; Penaga Lilin, Penaga Sabut; 
Penaga Putih; Penaga Suga; Penaga Kunyet. Use: The wood, 
though small, is extremely hard, and used for cart axles, tool- 
handles, etc. Flowers dried used in medicine. 
(2) M. lepidota T. Anders, in Hook. fil. F.B.I. i. 288; King, 
l.c. 185. 
A glabrous tree 60 to 80 ft. tall. Leaves coriaceous narrow 
elliptic or oblong-lanceolate acuminate, base acute; nerves indis¬ 
tinguishable, 2 to 3 in. long, 75 to 1*2 in. wide; petioles *15 in. 
long. Fruit solitary terminal pedicelled, ovoid or depressed 
globular apiculate 1 in. through with 4 lignified sepals at base; 
pericarp thick dehiscing vertically into 2 or 3 valves. Seeds 2 
planoconvex or 1 globose. Hab. Malacca, Sungei Hudang; Mer- 
bimau and Batang Malacca (Derry). Pahang, Ben tong (Foxworthy). 
Perak, Doping (ICunstler). Native names: Jambu Dulek; Kelat 
putih. 
Flowers of this remarkable tree have never been met with. Young trees 
cultivated in the Singapore Botanic Gardens resembled M. ferrea in habit. 
Order XIX. TERNSTRCEMIACE^E. 
Trees or shrubs (rarely climbers, Actinidia). Leaves alternate, 
entire or serrulate. Flowers white or pink, often showy, bisexual 
or unisexual, solitary on pedicels, rarely racemed or panicled. 
Sepals 5, often unequal. Petals 5, imbricate. Stamens numerous, 
adnate to corolla; anthers basi-fixed or versatile. Ovary superior, 
free (except Anneslea half-inferior) 2- to 3- (or many)-celled; 
styles as many as cells; ovules 2 to 8 in cell. Fruit capsular or 
baccate. About 300 species, tropics of Asia and America, rare in 
Africa, few in temperate zone. The Sauraujas are sometimes 
nowadays referred to Dilleniacece ; I retain them here as they have 
been so long classed as Ternstrcemiacece. 
