or CEYLON PLANTS. G7 



summo calycis tubo inserta, petalis altema ; 5 interna infra calycis 

 marginem afRxa. Filamenta brevia, dilatata, eestivatione inflexa. 

 Aniherm adnatse, dorso affixae, introrsse, longitudinaKter deliiscentes, 

 connective postice valde producto, quadrato. Ovarium calycis tubo 

 adnatum, 6-loculare, loculis monospermis. Omla erecta, anatropa. 

 Stylus brevfssimus, cylindricus. Stigma simplex. Capsula 6-locularis, 

 lignosa, locnlicide 2-6-valvis (saepissime 3-valvis). Semina erecta, 

 oblonga, compressa, testa membranacea, margine superiore in alam 

 membranaceam producta, umbilico basilari. Emhryonis exalbumi- 

 nosi cotyledones oblongse, sagittatse; radicula umbilicum attingens. 

 Arbor ingens^ ramosa ; ramulis tetragonis (suh 7iodis dilatatis 

 alatis); foliis oppositis^ breve petiolatis^ ovafo-lanceolaiis, integerri- 

 miSf glabris, 4|- polL longis, 3 polL latis ; venatioue pennata^ venis 

 secondariis vena intramarginali anastomosantihis ; iuflorescentia ra- 

 cemosa; racemis 1-2 axillaribus^ simpUcibuSy 12-20-^oris; floribus 

 parvis, 2-3 tin, longis^ albis^ hreve pedicellatis ; pedicellis nnifloris 3- 

 bracteatis; bracteis linearibuSy scabris, marginibus involuiis, pedicel- 



lum cequantibus, 



Axinandra Zeylanica, Thw,, C,P. No. 2668, in Herbario Peradeniensi. 



(Tab. L C.) 

 Hab. a large, handsome tree, from 50 to 60 feet in height, and which 



appears to be rare, as I have met with it but in one spot, in the 



Ambagamowa district, at an elevation of about 1500 feet. 



Plate I. 0. Pig. 1. Branch oi Axinandra Zeylanica. 2. Portion of 

 raceme. 3. Expanded flower, the petals having fallen, 4. One of the 

 inner series of stamina. 5. Longitudinal section of ovary and calyx. 

 6. Transverse section of the same. 7. Ovule, 8. Old capsule. 9. 

 Seed. 10. Embryo- 



Nov. Gen. I, Stemonoporus, Thw. Nat. Ord. Dipterocarpeaj. 



Char. Gen. Calyx 5-partitus, laciniis sequalibus ^ fructiferis vix auctis. 



petala 5, sequalia, sestivatione convolutiva. Stamina 15, bi- 



Corollm 



fila 



Ova- 



brevem, ovarium cingentem, coalita; a?dherce oblonga?, inti 

 singidae poro terminali dehiscentes, connectivo non producto. 

 rium 3-loculare ; loculis bi-ovulatis ; ovula ex apice anguli centralis 

 collateraliter pendula, anatropa. Stylus fdiforrais, simplex. Stigma 

 simplex. Fructus sphsericu8, calyce reflexo suffultus, coriaceus, 



