<Canariian.'\ BMrsefClCeCB. 239 



readily separable, leathery, thin, stone very thin, hard, brittle, 

 somewhat compressed, pointed at both ends, greyish-white, 

 I -celled, covered externally by a thick layer of watery, pulpy 

 tissue (forming the bulk of the fruit) through which radiate 

 from the stone numerous very fine long hairs ; seed solitary, 

 cotyledons very large, cordate-ovate, acute, entire, very much 

 folded and crumpled. 



Upper zone of the moist low country ; rare. Allagala ; Kadugannawa ; 

 Morankanda, W. Matale; Kuruwita Korale. Fl. March-May; brownish- 

 white. 



Endemic. 



Scutinanthe seems to be a good genus, abundantly distinct from 

 Canarmm, with which, however, it is combined by nearly all recent 

 authorities. Marchand, however, places it under Garuga, which, if it is 

 to be reduced, would seem a better position for it. The fruit is very in- 

 correctly figured both by Beddome and by Engler (Mon. Phan. iv. t. iii. 

 f. 9-14). The structure of the flowers is perigynous. 



The pulp of the fruit, which is very watery and a development of the 

 fine long hairs which cover the surface of the pyrene, is pleasant but 

 .slightly bitter to the taste and devoid of any resinous flavour, as indeed 

 is the whole plant.* The seed is very bitter. 



2. C. zeylanicum, Bl. Mus. Bot. i. 218 (1849). K^kuna, S. 

 Pakkilipal, T. 



Herm. Mus. 52. Burm. Thes. 28. Ainyris zeylmiica, Retz. Obs. iv. 

 25. C. balsamiferum^ Moon Cat. 68. Engler in Mon. Phan. iv. 113. 

 Thw. Enum. 79. C. P. 2649. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 532. 



A very large much-branched tree, with smooth, pale, 

 thin bark, young shoots covered with dense fulvous pubes- 

 cence ; 1. imparipinnate, rachis 6-8 in., cylindrical, thick, 

 almost woody, pilose, lenticellate, brown, Iflts. 3 pair and a 

 terminal one, on short, stout, pilose, brown stalks, 2-3 in., 

 broadly oblong-oval, subcordate at base, very shortly acu- 

 minate, entire, margin somewhat reflexed, glabrous, not 

 shining, subcoriaceous, rigid, deep apple-green, veins yellow, 

 very broad, very conspicuous above, lateral ones prominent 

 beneath, stip. on the petiole and looking like a lower pair of 

 small Iflts., rotundate-sagittate, shortly stalked, quickly falling 

 and leaving prominent raised scars; fl. on short, stout ped., 

 arranged in narrow, rufous-tomentose, pedunculate, terminal 

 panicles, the male numerous, ^-f in., crowded, the female 

 few, \-\ in., bracts rotundate, tomentose, soon falling ; male 

 fl. : — cal. cup-shaped, 3-lobed, pilose ; pet. 3, twice as long as 

 cal., acute, erect, very thick, pilose outside ; stam. 6, erect, 

 shorter than pet., ov. a mere rudiment ; female fl. : — cal. and 



* There is a slight resinous odour in the bark when fresh. 



