272 NEW GENERA OF CEYLON PLANTS. 
Nore. The Astylis venusta, R. W., found by Dr. Wight on the west- 
ern slopes of the Neilgherries, has st yet been met with in this Island. 
It may be characterized as follows :— 
3. Hemicyclia venusta.—Astylis venusta, R. W., Icones, tab. 1992. 
Arbor mediocris, Sokis glabris, lanceolatis, acuminatis, basi angustatis, 
5-7 poll. longis, 12—12 lin. latis; floribus 6 lin. latis.. Masc. sta- 
minibus 5-8, a. planum cingentibus ; ovarii rudimento minuto 
vel nullo. 
Nov. Gen. II. Eccremantuus, Thw. Nat. Ord. SAPINDACER. 
Char. Gen. Flores polygami. Calyx 5-partitus, equalis. Corolle pe- 
tala 5, calycis laciniis alterna, esquamulata. Discus annularis calycis 
fundum oceupans, regularis. Stamina 5; petalis alterna, disco intus 
inserta, æqualia ; filamentis filiformibus, in floribus fertilibus brevio- 
ribus; antheris rotundatis, bilocularibus, rima dorsali insertis, longi- 
tudinaliter dehiscentibus, versatilibus. Ovarium. centrale, substipi- 
tatum, obcordato-bilobum, biloculare. Ovula in loculis solitaria, € 
basi erecta. Stylus inter lobos simplex. Stigma bilobum. Fructus 
indehiscens, unilobus (lobo altero eff@to, minuto), monospermus ; ; 
vel rarius bilobus, dispermus. Semina oblonga, erecta, sin, - arillo 
carnoso inclusa; česta coriacea. Embryonis exalbuminosi c a 
dones crasse, incumbentes; radicula cylindrica, versus hilum directa. 
—Arbor ingens Zeylanica ; folis alternis, exstipulatis, abrupte pin- 
nalis, 5-13-jugis ; foliolis oppositis, penniveniis, dentatis; foribus 
~ plurimis, minutis, in ramis paniculi pendulis elongatis cylindricis dense 
—— aggregalis. : 
 Eceremanthus eximius, Thw. (Tas. IX.)—O.P. No. 1153 in Herbario 
eradeniensi. * 
A fine forest-tree, conspicuous from its very large, abruptly pinnate 
leaves, which frequently measure more than 3 feet in length, and have 
from five to thirteen pairs of opposite, lanceolate, nearly sessile leaflets, 
each full-sized leaflet measuring a foot or rather more in length, and 
84 inches in width. The few pairs of leaflets towards the base of the 
leaf are gradually smaller, and there is a very small, oblique, deciduous 
pair seated on the upper part of the tumid base of the petiole, and 
which, without a close inspection, might be taken for stipules. Pri- 
veins of the leaflets straight, every alternate one terminating in & 
= Tenth on the margin of the leaflet, the others curved forward be- 
