Sderopyrum.] cxxxmr sawTALAOEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 235 
[ood 5000 ft. in Coorg. CEYLON, in the Central Province, alt. 4-6000 ft., 
Branches very stout and woody, bark pale. Z i in 
; „and pale. Leaves 3-6 in. penninerved, and 
the med at the base, which is sometimes cordate ; petiole 4 in. Racemes 1-2 in. long, 
minuta. f and peduncle stout, of female thickening much after flowering; bracts 
imbri ai owers reddish. Perianth jj in. diam.; segments ovate, subacute, distinctly ` 
lon "i m ih one outer, all with a tuft of hairs behind the stamens. Fruit 1 in. 
$ "d ont 2 M the very stout pedicel, crowned with the persistent perianth.— Wight 
FA he e leaves as sometimes cordate, upon which A. De Candolle founds his var. 
ten’ quoting under it “S. Wallichianum, Bertie in Wight Ic. t. 241 ;” but Wight 
Live Arnott as the author both of the genus and species, and I do not find any 
Sueco to the name Bertie in Wight or elsewhere. I have referred with doubt 
on’s Champereia Perrottetiana to this plant, of which it may be an unarmed 
Owerlng specimen with an occasionally 4-merous flower. 
f A S. Maingayi, Hook. f.; unarmed (always?) glabrous, except the 
ah y tomentose inflorescence, leaves oblong or ovate obtuse, perianth-lobes 
valvate. P Pyrularia moschifera, 4. DC.; Benth. in Gen. Plant. iii. 228. 
Matacca ; Maingay. - . 
but d medium-sized tree," Maingay, resembling 8. Wallichianum in habit and foliage, 
kun ee branches are unarmed, the flowers smaller, and the perianth-segments strongly 
n vate. Bentham in Gen, Plant. refers this doubtfully to Spherocarya moschifera, 
while Mus. Bot. i. 245 (Pyrularia moschifera, A. DC.), a plant I have not seen, but 
the is described as having leaves acuminate and pubescent beneath, and in which 
8 d stamens are not described as bifid. P. moschifera is more probably a true 
p^crocarya.—] have seen no fem. fl. or fruit of Maingay’s plant. 
s DOUBTFUL AND EXCLUDED SPECIES. . 
PHEROCARYA LEPROSA, Dalzell, is Strombosia ceylanica ; see Vol. I. 579+ 
7. PHACELLARIA, Benth. 
Small leafless parasitic shrubs, stems fascicled. Flowers minute, scat- 
pred on the branches, solitary or fascicled, sessile or sunk in the branch, 
° Uracteate, monccious. Perianth-tube of male solid, of fem. adnate to the 
they lobes 4-8, short, valvate. Stamens 4 or 5, inserted on the bases of 
e lobes, filament short thick; anther-cells diverging below. Disk flat. 
od y inferior; style short, stout, stigma entire or 3-lobed ; ovules 3, pen- 
tink from and appressed to the top of a conical central column. ruit 
n qu n. Species 3, Indian. * 
e Speci : : : . "m 
Preserved in spiri this genus should be described from specimens in a living state, or 
Hoty Pe rigidula, Benth. in Gen. Plant. iii. 229; quite glabrous, stems 
gid terete crowded in a tuft on a small stock simple or sparingly branched, 
Perianth 4—5-cleft, 
py NASSERIM ; at Mergui, parasitic on a Loranthus, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 
274 
ibo tiem 4-6 inches long, strict, rather slender; 
broad? Flowers scattered along the branches, y; in. 
y triangular; females with a longer tube. 
: " P. compressa, Benth. in Gen. Plant. iii. 229; stems very stout 
Caberulously puberulous quite simple, perianth 5-8-cleft. 
TENASSERIM ; at Moulmein, Parish. uu 
" tems fewer from the stock than in P. rigidula, and quite simple, much stouter, 
Owering almost from the base, when dry } in. diam., described by Bentham as com. 
branches alternate, ascending, 
diam.; males subglobose, lobes 
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