^^y^k^^ XXIX. LiNE^. (J. D. Hooker.) 415 



obtus 



ise or emarginate glaucous beneath nerves horizontal faint not forming 

 mtraniarginal nerve, pedicels :^ in. solitary or geminate. E. suma- 



tranum, Miq, Flor. Ind, Bat 6\ippL i. 572. E. retusum, Bauer ex Teysm. 



(j^MnnmcL in Tydsd^^^^ v. Naturch. Ver. Ned. Lid, xxviil 71 (according 



JUALACCA, Griffith, Mahigay; Penang, PhilUps,- 

 yerj near to E. Kuntldanum, bat with more o 



Eastern Peninsu^la, Tenasserim, and Andaman Islds., Htlfer; Mergui, Griffith; 

 and .11!^.^^^^^^^^ ^^ ^ *^y tree, whilst the Khasia pknt is a mere bush7 The^Penan'g - 



•DiSTKJB. Sumatra, 

 bovate and more obtuse leaves ; it is 



some Malaccan specimens have much smaller leaves than the Mergui ones. — I have 

 Ken no Sunaatran specimens. ' ' . ^ 



». Leaves not glaucous beneath, but more or less shining on both sur- 

 faces. \} .'. 



'Ir: 



eir f- i' ^^^^^^ola-tum, Wiglit III i. 136 (Sethia); leaves 2-4 by fin. 

 |iiptic-lanceolate obtuse shining on both surfaces nerves oblique, pedun- 

 ^^^ 4-T in. very slender. Sethia lanceolata, Thwaites Enum. 54. 

 a erythroxyloides, Wight, U 



Western Peninsula ; Courtallum, Wight; CErLON, banks of streams, Galagamadis- 

 *^t, alt. 2-3000 ft, Thwaites, &c. 



n erect branching shrub. Leaves sometimes slightly contracted towards the base, 

 ofcr^Vr^^ connate into a distinct intramarginal one; petiole ^-| in.— Wight's var. 

 etoTt 1 r ^"^ ^^^ ^' ^^y^^^o^^yloides are hardly distintruisbable ; the latter is a 

 short f'^**"ij with alternately longer stamens ; another form with longer styles and 



rtcr stamens occurs; as is the case with the two following species;— a) J are no doubt 



iious. 



ellipt 



^;. B; lucidum, Moon Cat Ceyl. PL 36; leaves 2-3 by |-1 in. 



ppic-lanceolate obtusely caudate-acuminate opaque or^ shining above 

 min^f^ f^^eath nerves nearly horizontal, pedicels y^^-^in. Sethia acu- 

 ^^nata, Am, in Act Acad. Nat Cur. xviii. 324 ; Wight III \. 135 ; Thwaites 



num. 54. 





Ceyl 



jfj ^^'.i Ambagamowa and Saffragam districts, alt. 1000 ft., Walker. 

 troad* ^ ^^"^ ^^*^^ ^- lanceolatum in the long points to the comparatively 

 T..,j ^\ leaves, which have furthermore horizontal nerves : and in the short stout 



P^dun ] rn ' ""*'^" iiave lurmerraore nonzouiai ut* rvt:» , anu m luc oiiuii. oiuuu 



8tam { Thwaites notices two forms of flower, one {styjosa) with the alternate 

 Joj^^^^®J^"^er, and a shorter style; i\\Q ot\xev (staminea) with equal stamens and a 

 tn^f r .'^'|!--^The expressed juice of the fresh leaves is given by the Cinghalese as an 

 Born *^ children. There is a very similar species to this, a variety of it, iu 



- b _ 



x>liuzn. Thwa ites 



obovaf Y^*'"»"Oiium, Ttiwaites Enum. oi; leaves z-of uy 14-14 iu. 

 shini ^^ broadly oblong tip rounded or obtusely pointed rather 



stout ° ^^ ^^^^ surfaces nerves rather oblique elevated,, pedicels short 



j?Tf*^N; Central Provinces, alt. 2-4000 ft., Thwaites, 

 itsbein [^^a^^es in retaining this as a distinct species, though I can scarcely doubt 

 \i^l^^^l^^^-^^^y^A^iiiiQ(^E. lanceolatum, its nerves arc less oblique however. 

 5nThw -t""' '" *^® ^^^ ''^^^^s of long stamens and short style and vice versa. ^ 

 the 5 ;®^ 8 drawing J in. long, linear-oblong, straight, red. Thwaites refen 

 Tariet'v f T; ' ^^^- obtusi/oUa of Wight, which is, however, clearly a very tnfling 

 ^ ^y^^ lanceolatum. \ - -.::;-:;:■>■ ^ 



Fruit 

 8 to this 



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DOUBTFUL SPECIES. . ,':. ■'', ., U \ 



iacdot n^'"^ been sent froiii Ceylon to the Botanic Garden of Calcutta by General 

 CaanotT^ '♦'^^^i as being also amative ofCoromandet As^ no description is given I 

 ^y to \s hich of the above Roxburgh's Coromandel species it should be referred. 



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