1 50 MalvaceCE. {Dkellostyles. 



connate half way up ; fruit indehiscent, i-(or 2 ?) seeded ; 

 cotyledons foliaccous, plicate-convolute, no endosperm. — 

 Monotypic, endemic. 



J. ang'ustifolia, T/nu. Eman. 30 (1858). 



Kydia angusti/olm, Arn. in Nov. Act. xviii. i, 322. C. P. 1146. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 2,2,2,. Bedd. Ic. t. 280. 



A small, slender, slightly branched tree, bark smooth, 

 shoots with scurfy stellate pubescence ; 1. large, 5-7 in., lance- 

 olate, rounded at base, tapering to obtuse apex, nearly entire, 

 with a few scattered stellate hairs above, paler and stellate- 

 hairy on veins beneath, base 3-nerved, petiole {in., pubescent, 

 stip. leafy, oval-spathulate, very obtuse, ~ in. puberulous, 

 caducous; fl. numerous, about hm. diam. pedicellate, in large 

 lax spreading often drooping axillary and terminal panicles, 

 bracteoles 4, combined below to form a cup-shaped involucre, 

 oval, acute, completely enclosing bud; sep. 5, connate halfway 

 up, rather shorter than bracteoles, stellate-tomentose ; pet. 

 oblong, longer than sep., covered outside with stellate hairs ; 

 ov. stellate-hairy, styles densely hairy, stigmas flat ; fr. globular, 

 ^ in., indehiscent, densely stellate-hairy, enclosed in enlarged 

 bracteoles and sep. ; seed oblong. 



Moist low country, extending into its upper zone ; rather common, 

 Ambepusse (Gardner); Ruanwelle; Ambagamuwa. Fl. October; 

 yellowish with a red centre. 



Endemic. 



7. DICZ:X.ZiOSTVI.X:S, Bcnt/i. 

 Trees ; fl. solitary, axillary ; bracteoles 4, slightly connate 

 below; sep. 5 combined into a campanulate cal.; pet. 5, 

 slightly connate at base ; stam. about 30, fil. combined at very 

 base only, anth, reniform ; ov. 2-ceIled, with 2 erect ovules in 

 each cell, styles 2, connate more than half-way up, stigmas 

 globose; fruit splitting into 2 indehiscent i -seeded cocci. — 

 Sp. 2 ; both in Fl. B. Ind. 



D. axillaris, BciitJi. in Gen. PL i. 207 (1862). 



Tliw. Enum. 401. Kydia axillaris., Thw. Enum. 30. C. P. 3126. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 2>ZZ- Bedd, Ic. t. 279. 



A moderate-sized tree with smooth bark, young parts 

 nearly glabrous ; 1. 4-7 in., ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute or 

 obtuse at base, tapering to obtuse apex, glabrous on both 

 sides, petioles !| in., stip. linear, \ in., acute, with a strong 

 midrib; fl. large, campanulate, solitary, pcd. {-^ in., much 

 dilated at apex, bracteoles i-i{ in., erect, dilated at base, 



