30 FLACOURTIANEJE. Hypnocarpus 
scarcely prominent beneath — Wight ! cat. n. 62.—Flacourtia crenata, Wall. ! 
L. n. 6679 (partly.)——Neelgherries. 
108. (2) P. lanceolatus (Wight :) without thorns?: leaves oblong-lanceo- 
late, acuminated, slightly and obtusely serrated, without glands at the base, 
beneath paler with the veins prominently reticulated.— Wight ! cat. n. 68.— 
Flacourtia crenata, Wall. ! L. n. 6679 (partly.) Neelgherries. 
The flowers are larger, and the specimen before us has quite a different ap- 
pearance from P. crenatus. 
109. (3) P. Wightianus (W. & A.:) very thorny: leaves roundish-ovate 
with a short obtuse acumination, without glands at the base, scarcely serrate, 
the serratures often resembling mere glands, very coriaceous and hard, be- 
neath somewhat prominently reticulated.— Wight! cat. n. 64.— Flacourtia 
Wightiana, Wall. L. n. 6672? 
We believe this is also from the Neelgherries; it was sent formerly to Dr 
Wallich marked “ Phoberos," and our only uncertainty arises from his not 
having quoted that synonym in his list. 
* 110. (4) P. macrophyllus (W. & A. :) arborescent, thorny: leaves broadly 
lanceolate, acuminated, obtuse or somewhat truncate at the base, bearing 
there a gland on each side of the petiole.— Wight ! cat. n. 288.—Flacourtia 
inermis? Wall.! L. n. 6673. g, h. 
Our specimens are from Klein's herbarium. It is cultivated in the mission- 
ary garden, and is said to have come from Ceylon. Klein describes it as an 
arborescent thorny shrub, with a dry berry: the upper branches are free 
from thorns. The P. chinensis of Loureiro, which Mr Arnott has in his herba- 
rium from Canton, has likewise a gland on each side of the petiole at the base 
of the leaf, but the leaves are very coriaceous, nearly entire, and elliptical, 
with scarcely any acumination. d 
III. HYDNOCARPUS. | Gertn. fr. t. 60. 
Flowers dicecious. Sepals 5; the two outer ones ovate; the three inner 
much larger, exceedingly concave, somewhat petaloid ; estivation twisted. 
Petals 5, fringed with elose soft snow-white hairs: sstivation twisted. Scales 
(abortive stamens?) 5, almost half the size of the petals to which they are op- 
posite, somewhat fleshy, densely hairy. Marr. Stamens 5, in the centre of the 
flower; filaments subulate, hairy at the base: anthers flattish, nearly reni- 
form; cells separated by the broad connectivum. No vestiges of a pistil. 
Fem. Stamens as in the male, but anthers without pollen. Style 0. Stigma 
peltate, flat, closely pressed on the summit of the ovary and crowning it, 
5-parted ; each segment cuneate and deeply bifid. Ovarium globose ; ovules 
numerous. Berry globose, crowned with the undivided portion of the stigma 
now thickened and erect (resembling a short stout style) and bearing the re- 
mains of its lobes, Seeds numerous.— Trees, Leaves glabrous; secondary 
nerves simple, connected with transverse small nearly simple and straight 
veins. 
111. (1) H. inebrians (Vahl.)—Vahl, . 3. p. 100 ; DC. 1. p. 257 ; 
Spr. a) 1. p. 7925 Wall.! L n. Gob; Wah] cat. n. aiit den 
coast, common. . " 
Vareca moluccana, Roxb., and perhaps his other Species, cannot be united 
to Hydnocarpus as Sprengel has done; they seem to form a genus among the 
Bixinec. 
