Sirombosia.] OlaciueCB. 257 



subacute or obtuse, entire, glabrous and shining, petiole | in., 

 glabrous ; fl. numerous, \ in., ped. glabrous, \ in., in lax, 

 divaricate, axillary panicles, bracts deciduous, buds clavate, 

 blunt; cal. minute, glabrous; pet. narrowly linear, somewhat 

 coherent but readily separable, spreading at the ends ; stam. 

 and staminodes as long as pet., somewhat exserted ; drupe 

 |— f in., broadly ovoid, apiculate, loosely enclosed, except at 

 top, by the greatly enlarged cal, orange-yellow. 



Low country ; rather rare. Hunasgiria ; Hanguranketa ; near Kala- 

 wewa; Hiniduma; near Nalande. Fl. Feb., March; cream-coloured. 



Also Malabar Coast and Malacca. 



A handsome climber, covering large trees. 



Vahl (1. c.) quotes Koenig as the authority for O. psittacoriim in 

 Ceylon. I cannot, however, find with certainty Koenig's specimen in 

 Mus. Brit. The original O. psittacoriim {Fissilia, Lam.) is from 

 Mauritius, and a different plant. 



3. O. zeylanica, L. Sp. PL 34 (1753). ]>I^Ila, 6". 



Herm. Mus. 13. Burm. Thes. 26. Fl. Zeyl. n. 34. Moon Cat. 5. 

 Thw. Enum. 42. C. P. 12 14. 

 Fl. B. Ind. i. 576. 



A small tree, young branches acutely angled, finely ridged 

 transversely, glabrous, yellow ; 1. 2-3 in., ovate-oblong, acute 

 at base, attenuate to acute or obtuse apex, entire, rather thick, 

 glabrous and shining, petiole very short ; fl. \ in., few, pedi- 

 cellate, in very small axillary racemes, buds slightly clavate, 

 blunt; pet. oblong; stam. and staminodes rather shorter than 

 pet. ; drupe | in., broadly ovoid, strongly apiculate, smooth, 

 scarlet, less than half covered by the cup-shaped, enlarged cal. 



Moist low country ; common. Fl. April. 



Endemic. 



The leaves are eaten as a salad. 



3. STROBIBOSZA, Bl. 



Trees ; fl. in axillary fascicles ; cal. with a fleshy tube, 

 limb 5-toothed ; pet. 5, distinct, inserted on cal. -tube, hairy 

 within ; stam. 5, opp. pet. and adnate to them ; ov. inferior, 

 completely adnate to cal.-tube, 5-celled, with 5 ovules pen- 

 dulous from central placenta ; disk large, epigyjioiis, fleshy, 

 tapering upwards round base of the style ; fruit an inferior 

 drupe, stone i-celled, i-seeded, embryo minute, at summit of 

 fleshy endosperm. — Sp. 6; 2 in Fl. B. hid. 



S. zeylanica, Gardn. in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. vi. 350 (1845). 

 S. javanica^ Thw. Enum. 42 (non Bl.). Lavallea ceylanica^ Bail!. 

 Adansonia, ii. 361. C. P. 1237. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 579. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 137 (not good). 



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