Arfadofrys.] AnOfiaceCB. 21 



capitate ; fr. 2|-3 in. long, ovoid or subglobular, bluntly 

 pointed, smooth, green, rather glaucous; seeds several, i^in. 

 long, ovoid, compressed, testa bony, pale brown, margined, 

 transversely rugose on the sides. 



Upper part of moist low country at an elevation of 1 500-3000 ft. ; 

 common in forests. Kandy ; Hantane ; Deltota ; Ambagamuwa ; Galle ; 

 Ratnapura. FI. May-July ; pale apple-green, stigma dark red. 



Also in Southern India. 



The essential organs are completely enclosed by the connate cup- 

 shaped bases of inner pet. 



The tree grows very rapidly, and the enlarged scars of the leaves 

 remain visible on trunks of large size, showing well their spiral arrange- 

 ment. It often attains an immense height. Wood yellowish, soft, 

 medullary rays distinct. The lacquered sticks used by Kandyan chiefs 

 and others are usually made of this wood. 



3. ARTABOTRVS, Br. 



Woody climbers ; fl. borne on flattened, hooked, woody 

 branches or peduncles ; pet. in 2 rows, nearly equal, with 

 concave bases, inner row coherent at base and covering in the 

 essential organs ; carp, numerous, each with 2 ovules ; ripe 

 carp, fleshy, 2-seeded. — Sp. 15, 10 in FL B. Ind. 



The younger branches climb by means of the hooked peduncles. 



Petals equal ; fruit smooth, shining . . i. A. odoratissimus. 

 Inner row of pet. narrower, fruit hairy . . 2. A. zeylanicus. 



I. A. odoratissimus, Br. in Bot. Reg. t. 423 (1820) non BI. 

 Una uncinafa, Dun., Moon Cat. 43. Hk. f. and Th. Fl. Ind. 128. 

 Thw. Enum. 9. C. P. 1042. 



FI. B. Ind. i. 54. Blume. Fl. Jav. Anon., t. 29 and 31 c. {A. /mniattes). 



A powerful, far-reaching, many-stemmed woody climber, 

 the old stems of great thickness, covered with rather smooth 

 grey bark, and furnished with thick woody pointed spreading 

 spines about an inch long in pairs, young shoots slightly 

 pubescent or glabrous ; 1. shortly stalked, 4-7 in., lanceolate, 

 bluntly acuminate, tapering to base, thin, glabrous on both 

 sides ; fl. solitary or 2 together; ped. terminal or leaf-opposed, 

 f in. long, slender, springing from edge of dilated, flattened, 

 strongly curved and hooked, rigid, pubescent ends of the 

 branches ; sep. small, ovate, acute, recurved ; pet. equal, f in. 

 long, linear, acute, finely pubescent, contracted at base to 

 form a concave cup more or less covering the stam. and carp., 

 fr. of 3-8 carp., on a small woody recept, each i| in. long, 

 oblong-ovoid or obovate bluntly pointed, tapering at the base. 



