4 



To this genus belongs Roxburgh's PhyUanfhus 



small 



tetrandms, and doubtless had Willdenow introduced ceolate,acute, slightly unequal-sided, glabrous: flowers 

 descriptions of the flower into his characters, some axillary 



mg, many-leaved, and with the leaves 



of his species would also be found referable here. 



1903. Reidia fju>ribunda (R, W.), shrubby, ra- 

 mous, branches virgate : floriferous ramuli spread- 

 pubescent; 



leaves ovato-elliptic, blunt, slightly unequal-sided, 

 nearly glabrous above, pubescent and pale reddish 

 beneath : flowers axillary, numerous, fascicled, sev- 

 eral short pedicelled, males and one long pedicelled, 

 reddish-purple, female in each axil, flowers pube- 

 scent : capsules globose, drooping, glabrous. 



Neilgherries, on the Eastern slopes, about 2 miles 

 below Coonoor, but rather rare. 1 have this plant 

 from other localities, Pulney Mountains, &c. The 

 artist has not been successful in conveying a good 

 idea of the plant which is a very handsome one, 

 but difficult to represent. The figure No. 4 represents 

 the stamens with the anthers artificially separated 



to show the structure of that part of the flower, that 

 is, to show that the apparent 4 anthers, as described 

 by Roxburgh, in his PhylL tetrandrus^ are in truth 

 only two with the cells placed end to end, lying hori- 

 zontally across the flower, 



1904-1. . Reidia fimbeiata (R, W.), shrubby, 

 leaves broad ovate, acuminate, glabrous : flowers fas- 

 cicled, axillary, male sepals broad ovate, membranous 

 and fringed on the margin : female sepals like the 

 male, the 3 interior ones fringed. 



Western slopes, Neilgherries. 



1904r-2. Reidia rATiroLiA (R. W.), shrubby, flo- 

 riferous branchlets congested on the ends of the pri- 

 mary branches, many-leaved : leaves ovate, acute, 

 unequal-sided, glabrous : flowers numerous, axillary : 

 females solitary in the lower axils, often wanting in 

 the upper ones : sepals ovate, quite entire on the mar- 

 gin ; capsule about the size of a small pea, glabrous. 



Courtallum, flowering during the autumnal months* 



This species is also a native of Ceylon- The spe- 

 cimen selected is, for want of room, a small one, not 

 much in accordance with the name. The floriferous 

 branchlets are often more than a foot long. 



i 



[N, B. The numbers on the plate have been tranS' 



posed by the Lithographer » This figure is marked III 

 in the plate^ aim the following " 2 ;" these numbers 

 require to be reversed.^ 



1904-3. Reidia ovalifowa (R, W.), a very ra- 

 mous shnib: floriferous branchlets congested on the 

 ends of the branches, leaves numerous, close-set, oval 

 obtuse, unequal-sided (fig. 8.), glabrous above, pale 

 glaucous beneath : flowers numerous, axillary : male 

 sepals somewhat obovate, quite entire, glabrous : fe- 

 male like the male : styles 2-cleft, stigmas reflexed. 



Courtallum. In this the female flowers are more 

 numerous on the ends of the ramuli, and the styles 

 are difierent from those of the preceding species. 

 The leaves are represented too small for the average 

 size. Fig. 8 is about the natural size of full-grown 



leaves. 



three of the female, membranous and fringed on the 

 mar^n. 



Ceylon, Thwaites. I only know this species by 

 a single specimen communicated by Mr. Thwaites. 



It approaches R, fimbriata in the flowers, but is in 



all other respects widely different. In addition to 



the above, there are still two or three species in my 

 collection. 



1904-4. Reidia poltphiixa (R. W.), shrubby, 



Glochisandra (R. W.). 



Gex- Char* Monoecious. Male flowers six-parted. 

 Corolla and glands none. Stamens six, free to ^ear 

 the base, conulvant round the rudimentary ovary ; 



connective strap-like, prolonged beyond the anthers, 

 sub-lanceolate ; anthers 2-celled, aduate their whole 

 length. Pistil rudimentary, 3-lobed, concealed by the 

 connivant anthers. Female calyx as in the male. 

 No corolla nor disk. Ovary free, six-celled with 2 

 ovules in each ; style short, thick and fleshy, slightly 

 six-lobed at the point ; channeled in the centre. 



Arboreous, ramuli somewhat flexuose, lax : leaves 

 alternate, oblong, elliptic, acuminate, entire, glabrous : 

 flowers fascicled in the axils ; males numerous, pedi- 

 celled 5 females few, sub-sessile. 



1905. Glochisandra acuminata (R. W-). 



I am only acquainted with this tree through the 

 medium of a specimen received from the Calcutta Bot. 

 Garden, labeled " Briedelia spiTiosa^'' evidently a mis- 

 take, as it has no resemblance to that plant, but has 

 much the aspect of a Glochidion, This differs from that 

 genus in the male flowers being distinctly hexandrous, 

 with stamens free, not connate into a central column, 

 and in having a well-developed rudimentary pistil : 

 but at the same time, though thus amply technically 

 distinct, it has so much the habit of Glochidion that 

 I think, in the event of a revision of that genus, the 

 character might be so far enlarged as to admit both 

 this plant and the genus Gynoon^ both of which I cer- 

 tainly think are true congeners though technically 

 distinct. This I shall endeavour to show in the fol- 

 lowing remai'ks on these two genera. 



Gix>CHiDioN, (Forst., Gtnoon, AAj'. de Jnssieu.) 



These two, as hinted above, are so near each other, 



as to be in fact indistingmshable by the characters of 

 either Endlicher or Meisner. For this confusion I 



fear Dr. Arnott and ittyself are principally to blame, 

 a« we, in ^ving an amended character of Gynoon to 

 admit what we considered a new species, broke it 

 down, our supposed new one being a species of Glo- 

 chidion. The genus Gynoon^ as it came from the 

 hands of Jussieu, had monoecious flowers, the male 

 having a 5-parted calyx, 3 filaments united" at the 

 base, distinct at the apex and 3 extrorse anthers ad- 



nate below the apex of the filaments. Female calyx 

 6-parted, 3 stigmas, convex outside, angled within, con- 

 nate into an ovoid mass double the size of the ovary. 

 Ovary globose, 3-celled ; cells 2-ovuled- In all these 

 particulars our plant more or less agreed, except that 

 we gave it 6-stamens and a 6-celled ovary. The 

 apparent difference in the number of stamens is easily 

 reconciled, both plants are triandrous with the cells of 



ramous : floriferous branchlets congested on the ends the anthers so distinct and prominent that they each re- 



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