258 Olacinece. [opnia. 



A moderate-sized or large tree, with erect, straight trunk 

 and drooping branches, bark smooth, yellowish, rather thin, 

 young parts glabrous ; 1. 4-6 in., lanceolate, often unequal- 

 sided, acute at base, shortly acuminate, acute, entire, rather 

 thick, glabrous and shining, paler beneath, lat. veins oblique, 

 petiole h in., glabrous ; fl. small, nearly sessile, in small axillary 

 fascicles; cal.-tube glabrous, campanulate; pet. erect, oblong, 

 glabrous outside, hairy within ; anth, appearing as if sessile in 

 centre of pet.; fr. oblong-ovoid or sub-pyriform, f-i in., 

 crowned when young by persistent limb of cal., smooth or 

 slightly worted. 



Upper zone of moist low country; rather rare. Hantane; Watagoda; 

 Gangaruwa. Fl. July, Aug., Sept.; pale greenish-white. 



Also occurs in Southern India. 



The ovary appears to be entirely inferior and the disk epigynous, and 

 the plant should perhaps form a separate genus as proposed by Baillon. 



Wood moderately heavy, rather soft, pale yellowish-brown, shining. 

 Received from Pasdun Korale under the name ' Pub-beriya.' It is also 

 called ' Liyan' in some parts, but that name properly belongs to Black- 

 wellia. 



4. OPILZA, Roxb. 



Sub-scandent shrubs ; fl. minute, in axillary spikes ; cal. 

 minute, annular, scarcely toothed ; pet. 5, distinct ; stam. 5, 

 distinct, opp. pet. ; staminodes 5, fleshy, alternate with pet.; 

 ov. I -celled, with solitary pendulous ovule ; fruit a drupe, 

 stone I -seeded, embryo long, in axis of endosperm. — Sp. 2 ; 

 I m FL B. Ind. 



O. amentacea, Roxb. Cor. PL ii. 31 (1798). 



Thw. Enum. 41. C. P. 2916. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 583. Wight, 111. t. 40. 



A weak, semi - scandent shrub, young branches finely 

 pubescent ; 1. 2-3 in., lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acute at 

 base, tapering to acute apex, often somewhat falcate, entire, 

 glabrous, petiole very short ; fl. on slender pcd., arranged in 

 little clusters of 2-4 in narrow, erect, shortly stalked, axillary 

 spikes about i in. long, each cluster covered before expansion 

 by a rotundate, acute, ciliate bract (these overlapping give the 

 unexpanded infl. the appearance of a catkin); cal. a mere 

 ring; pet. oblong; stam. a little shorter than ptt., staminodes 

 very fleshy, shorter than stam. ; ov. narrowly oblong, style 

 very short ; drupe ^ in., ovoid, blunt, pubcrulous, glaucous- 

 green, stone very thin. 



Dry country; rather rare. Pomparripu; Gonagama; Kalpe, E. Prov. 

 Fl. April ; yellow. 



