Hemicyclia.] ^ oxxxv. gupmommrcEE. (J. D. Hooker.) 339 
thinner. Drupe over i in.; peduncle 4—4 in., usually deflexed.—I have seen only an 
indifferent specimen, the leaves of which are almost entire, 
6. H. venusta, Thwaites in Hook. Journ. Bot. viii. (1855) 272 ; branch- 
lets glabrous, leaves elliptie or oblong obtuse or acuminate quite glabrous base 
often oblique, flowers finely tomentose, males clustered, fem. long-pedicelled, 
stamens 5-8, stigma disciform, fruit obovoid pericarp very thick. Muell. 
Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 488; Dalz. à Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 229; Beddome 
Forester’s Man. 198. Astylis venusta, Wight Ic. t. 1992.— Wail. Cat. 8007. 
DECCAN PENINSULA ; from Canara to the Nilghiris and S. Tinnevelly, ascending 
to 4000 ft., Heyne, Wight, Stocks, &c. LL 
A tree; branches rather stout. Leaves 3-5 in., very coriaceous, shining above, 
guite entire, base acute or cuneate, coarsely reticulated beneath, nerves many and 
Suder ; petiole j in. Flowers } in. diam, ; male pedicels } in., fem. 1-2} in. Fruit 
il In., sometimes gibbous, at the top crowned with the pulvinate stigma ; pericarp 
thick and hard when dry.—Dalzell (in a letter) observes that the ovary is 1- or 2- 
celled, that when I.celled the stigma is an entire disk, and not unilateral, when 2- 
celled the stigma is double ; also that the 2 ovules in each cell are so closely packed 
as to appear like one. l 
7. H. elata, Beddome Fl. Sylvat. t. 279; glabrous, leaves lanceolate 
acuminate, male flowers in few-fld. axillary fascicles, pedicels slender, sepals 
oblong pubescent on both surfaces, stamens 8-12, ovary 1-celled, stigmas 
Sessile disciform, fruit long pedicelled pyriform pericarp very thick. 
pre u^ PENINSULA; in the Wynaad, Anamalay and Tinnevelly forests, alt. 
-» Beddome. 
A large tree, 90-100 ft. Leaves 4-5 by 13-2 in., quite entire, shining on both sur- 
Pom? petiole 3-4 in. Male fl. 4-5 in a cluster ; pedicels 3-1 in.; flowers } in. diam. 
em. fl. solitary, rather larger than the male; pedicel elongating in fruit. Disk 
annular, Pruit ł-1 in. long.— Beddome distinguishes this from H. venusta by 
m. being a very large tree with less coriaceous leaves. My specimens do not enable 
me to distinguish it from that plant. 
8. H. Wightii, Hook. >; nearly glabrous, leaves elliptic- or oblong- 
lanceolate obtusely taper. pointe many-nerved and finely reticulate entire 
er obscurely crenate, base acute unequal-sided, flowers axillary shortly pedi- 
celled Solitary or 2-3 together, sepals 4-7 oblong and pedicels fulvous- 
tomentose, disk orbicular pubescent, stamens 6-10, fruit on a short stout 
Pedicel ovoid puberulous, pericarp thick, stigma reniform. 
Deccan PENINSULA ; Nilghiri Hills, Wight. 
„Habit of H, venusta, but the leaves are uniformly narrower, thinner, more finely 
nonculate, and the pedicels are shorter than the fruit, which is Ẹ in. long and sub- 
17. CYCLOSTEMON, Blume. 
, Trees. Leaves alternate, quite entire or crenulate, base often unequal- 
sided, Flowers axillary, dicecious, apetalous, all racemed or clustered and 
Pedicelled. Mare rr, Sepals 4-6, broad, imbricate (buds globose). Sta hort 
ew or many, inserted round a flattened or depressed disk ; filaments á ort 
we; anthers erect, cells parallel. Pistillode 0 or minute. FEM. FL. Calyx 
of the male. Disk annular or 0. Ovary 2-4-celled, styles elongate or 0, 
migmas dilated fleshy or connate into a peltate disk; ovules 2 in each gell, 
rut subglobose or ovoid, indehiscent; pericarp thick, hardened, 2-celled. 
solitary in the cells, albumen fleshy ; cotyledons broad, flat.—Species 
about 18, Tropical Indian, Malayan and African. 
