262 Olacinece. \_Mappia. 



A. Gardneriana, Miers, in Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 2, ix. 389. 



(1852). 



Thw. Enum. 42. C. P. 204. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 588. Miers, Contrib. t. 5 (poor). 



A small or moderate-sized tree, with smooth grey bark, 

 young parts puberulous ; 1. 2J,-5i in., variable, from broadly 

 oval to oblong-lanceolate or slightly obovate, tapering to 

 base, rounded, obtuse or slightly acuminate at apex, entire, 

 the margin usually strongly revolute, glabrous, more or less 

 coriaceous, petiole l-'{ in.; fl. small, on short ped., in small 

 terminal, rarely axillary, lax panicles with divaricate branches, 

 buds oval-oblong; pet. strap-shaped, apiculate, recurved; 

 stam. spreading, anth. linear, versatile; ov. gibbous, pubescent, 

 style as long as ov. ; drupe \ in. long, h in. wide, compressed, 

 lop-sided, flat on one side and with a flat, shield-like appendage 

 there, very gibbous on the other side, black, shining, style 

 persistent, terminating the flat side. 



Montane zone up to 6000 ft. ; rather common. Nuwara Eliya ; Hak- 

 gala ; Uda Pusselawe ; Maturata ; Ambagamuwa ; Madulkelle ; Matale 

 East ; Rangala. Fl. all the year ; white, sweet-scented. 



Endemic. 



This is very close to A. Benthainiana, Wight, of the Nilgiris (Wight, 

 Ic. t. 1 153), and if it prove the same must take that name. The plant 

 turns black in drying. 



9. MAPPZA, Jacq. 



Small trees ; fl. bisexual, in terminal cymes ; cal. cup- 

 shaped, 5-toothed ; pet. 5, connate below, hairy within ; 

 stam. 5, alt. with pet., free ; disk cup-shaped, lobed ; ov. 

 I -celled, with 2 pendulous collateral ovules, style short, 

 stigma capitate; fruit a drupe, stone hard, very thin, i -seeded; 

 embryo in axis of fleshy endosperm, cotyledons foliaceous, 

 ovate. — Sp. about 8 ; 4 in Fl. B. Ind. 



TDH. ovata, Miers in Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 2, ix. 395 (1852), 

 G-andapana, S. 



M. (Jardncriana, Miers, Contrib. 1. c. 66. M.fatida, Thw. Enum. 43. 

 (non Miers). C. P. 492. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 589. Miers, Contrib. i. t. 8. 



A small tree, bark whitish, buds pubescent ; 1. 4-8 in., 

 ovate or oblong-ovate, acute at both ends, usually shortly 

 acuminate, entire, glabrous above, lat. veins oblique, G-'i on 

 each side, prominent beneath, usually with a tuft of hair in 

 the axils or hairy throughout, petiole \-i\ in.; fl. % in., on 

 very short ped., in a stout, erect, pubescent, terminal, corymbose 



