I go LinaceCB. {Eiythroxylo?i. 



nearly globose, I in., supported on persistent sep., pulp scanty, 

 stone bony, grooved, lo-cellcd, with usually 2 or 3 seeds. 



Low country, especially in the dry region ; rather common. Jaffna 

 (Gardner); Kurunegala : Doluwe Kande ; Hambantota ; Galle. H. 

 May-Aug. ; yellow. Fruit scarlet. 



Also on the west coast of Peninsular India. 



There are specimens collected by Jonville in 1800, in Hb. Mus. Brit. 



Some of Hermann's specimens are Ancistrodadus Vahlii (q. v.). 

 H. znllosa, Moon Cat. 49, appears to be a mere variety, judging from a 

 drawing so named in Herb. Perad. 



2. K. ferrug-inea, W. and A. Prod. 72 (1S34). 

 Thw. Enum. 25. C. P. 11 84. 

 Fl. B. Ind. i. 413. 



A sarmentose scrambling shrub, .shoots and young parts 

 densely covered with orange tomentum, spines as in H. Mystax ; 

 1. 2-3 in., ovate, shortly acuminate, entire or faintly toothed, 

 finely golden-silky, ultimately glabrous above, densely golden- 

 silky beneath, lat. veins prominent, arched, not reticulate, 

 bracts subulate ; fl. 2 or 3 together, on short ped. from leaf- 

 axils, buds pointed ; sep. ovate, acuminate, densely tomen- 

 tose, pet. about twice as long ; fruit not seen. 



Moist low country ; rare. Kalutara (Moon) ; Galle ; Heneratgoda. 



I do not know whence Wight's specimens (n. 286, collected by Col. 

 Walker in March, 1836) were obtained. Fl. Dec; yellow. 



Endemic. 



I have not met with this living, and the dried specimens are not very 

 good, 



3. ERVTKROXVZiON, L. 



Trees or shrubs, glabrous ; 1. entire, with combined, intra- 

 petiolar stip. ; fl. axillary, heterostyled ; sep. 5, slightly con- 

 nate below ; pet. 5, distinct, imbricate, spreading, with a large 

 double erect scale on the inner surface ; stam. 10, fil. connate 

 into a tube ; ov. 3-celled, with i ovule in each cell ; styles 3, 

 nearly free or connate ; stigmas capitate ; fruit a drupe, stone 

 1-3-celled, i-seeded. — Sp. 50; 6 in Fl. B. Lid. 



Tree ; stip. persistent I.E. monogynum. 



Shrubs ; stip. caducous. 



Leaves tapering to apex ; styles connate. 



Lat. veins horizontal 2. E. LUCIDUM. 



Lat. veins oblique 3. E. l.\nceolatum. 



Leaves rounded at apex ; styles free. . . 4. E. OUTUSI folium. 



I. E. monog-ynum, Roxb. Cor. PI. i. 61 (1795). Devadaram, 

 Chemmanatti, T. 



Moon Cat. 36. Sethia indica, DC, Thw. Enum. 53. C. P. 1168. 

 Fl. B. Ind. i. 414. Wight, 111. t. 48, copied in Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 81 

 {E. indiciim). 



