1 04 Guttiferce. \Kayea, 



The large tomentose flower-buds readily distinguish this handsome 

 species. 



n. C. ■Walkerii, Wight, III. i. 128 (1840). Kina, S. 



Planch, and Tri. 1. c. 263. C. P. 11 70. 



Fl. 15. Ind. i. 275 (localities omitted). Wight, 111. i. t. 45 (poor). 



A very large tree, with a thick, straight, tall trunk and a 

 rounded head, bark reddish-brown, thick, twigs quadrangular,, 

 glabrous; 1. small, \\-2 in., crowded, rotundate or obovate- 

 oval or obcordate, cuneate or rounded at base, obtuse, very 

 stiffly coriaceous, lat. veins coarse, not prominent, petioles 

 very short, stout ; fl. large, i in. diam., numerous, in axillary 

 and terminal racemes forming together a large terminal 

 panicle much exceeding the 1., ped. \-\ in., glabrous ; sep. 4, 

 inner twice as long ; pet. usually 8, longer than sep., inner 

 row smaller; stam. very numerous, slightly coherent at base ; 

 fr. globose, \ in. or rather more, apiculate, smooth, pale yellow 

 mottled with brown. 



Upper montane zone in forests; common. N. Eliya; Adam's Peak; 

 Ambagamuwa; Knuckles. There is a specimen from Moon in Mus. 

 Brit, without definite locality. Fl. Jan.-April ; white or pinkish (not 

 yellow as in Wight's fig.). 



Endemic. 



The well-known ' Kina ' tree of the mountains, growing often to an 

 immense size. The flowers are very beautiful and sweet-scented, and 

 are said to be produced only once in 3 or 4 years. Wight's plate gives a 

 very poor idea of this fine species. 



Wood pale reddish-brown, hard, rather light, durable. 



This is liable to very curious terminal galls which have been often 

 mistaken for fruit; they are urceolate in form with a 2-lipped chink at the 

 summit, and appear to be formed by the fusion and malformation of a 

 pair of opposite leaves. They occur in other species also of this genus. 



3. KAYSA,-^ Wall. 



Trees ; 1. with lateral veins arched, inconspicuous ; fl. 

 bisexual, in axillary racemes ; sep. 4, in 2 rows, much enlarged 

 in fr. ; pet. 4, imbricate ; stam. very numerous, distinct, anth. 

 dehiscing vertically; ov. i -celled, with 4 erect ovules, style 

 very long, stigma 4-fid ; fr. coriaceous, indehiscent, enclosed 

 in enlarged sep., 1-4-seeded, embryo with large fleshy coty- 

 ledons. — Sp. 4 ; all in Fl. B. hid. 



IL. stylosa, TInv. Etiinii. PI. Zeyl. 50 (1858). Suwanda, 5. 

 K cuspzdiila, Planch, and Tri. 1. c. 268. C. P. 2708. 

 Fl. B. Ind. i. 276. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 102. 



* Commemorates Ur. Robert Kaye Greville, of Edinburgh, a dis- 

 tinguished botanist Died 1866 



