120 SIR DIETRICH BRANDIS—AN ENUMERATION 
under each flower, as well as under the last branches of the 
panicle. Pedieel 5-ribbed, the ribs alternating with sepals. 
Anthers shortly apiculate. Ovary with large shallow pits; style 
nearly as long as ovary, ribbed; stigma densely papillose, 
obscurely 3-lobed. Pericarp coriaceous, thicker at base than at 
apex. Testa thin, adhering to endocarp. Hypocotyl with petioles 
as long as embryo. Cotyledons thick, fleshy, plane-convex, bifid 
to base. Cells of cotyledons and hypocotyl filled with starch. 
2. Varica OBSCURA, Trimen, Fl. Ceylon, i. (1893) 129, t. 13. 
Gregarious in the eastern province of Ceylon, “ Tumpalai,” 
Tam. (Zrimen). 
Anthers shortly apiculate. Stigma capitate, obscurely 3-lobed. 
Pericarp coriaceous, 4); in. thick throughout, splits into 3 valves 
in germination. Testa thin; no remains of placenta, dissepiments, 
and abortive ovules. Hypocotyl with distinct petioles, half 
the length of embryo, imbedded in the middle of the embryo 
between the two cotyledons, which are thick, fleshy, plane- 
convex, and bifid to base. Starch in the cells of cotyledon and 
hypocotyl, 6 resin-ducts in the latter. 
3. V. AFFINIS, Tha, Enum. Pl. Zeyl. (1864) 404; Dyer in 
Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 303 ; Trimen, Fl. Ceylon, i. 128. 
Moist low country of Ceylon, rare (Zrimen). 
Anthers ovate-oblong, cells nearly equal, appendage thick, 
short. Style cylindric, thickened at apex. 
B. Eastern Peninsula. 
4. . V. LANCEXFOLIA, Blume, Mus. Bot. ii. (1852) 31; Dyer in 
Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 802.— P]. III. figs. 2-4. 
Assam, in the valley as well as on the hills surrounding it, 
probably not ascending beyond 2000 ft.; Cachar; Chittagong 
hills district; Irawadi river in Upper Burma; 2nd Kyaukdweng 
near Bhamo (Griffith). 
A large shrub, sometimes growing into a tree. Leaves thinly 
coriaceous, nearly membranous. One or two pseudo-terminal 
flowers frequent in a bifurcation of the panicle (fig. 4). Calyx 
on the outside densely clothed with 1-celled hairs, on the inside 
with thin pluricellular hairs, valvate in flower, edges overlapping 
in fruit. Anthers ovate-oblong, each of the 4 cells terminating 
at base in a blunt beak; appendage of connective thick, cylindric, 
as long as anthers. Ovary pitted. Fruit ovoid, apiculate, 1-13 
