268 CelastraceCE . [Microtropis. 



crcnatc-scrrate, entire at base, glabrous; fl. I in., on very short 

 ped., solitary or in threes, sessile in the axils, or on a very short 

 peduncle; sep. very obtuse; capsule | in., pyriform-turbinate; 

 seeds with a very large aril, smooth, yellowish. 



Moist low country to upper limit; common. Fl. Jan. -April ; greenish- 

 crimson. 



Endemic. 



Foliage varies considerably, but the inflor. is uniform. The inner 

 bark is a brilliant dead orange-colour. 



2. GZiVPTOPSTAIiUm, Thw. 



Small trees ; fl. in extra-axillary, paniculate cymes ; cal. 

 small, 4-lobed ; pet. 4, oblong, with 2 deep pits on upper 

 surface; disk large, tumid, quadrangular, tapering into style; 

 stam. 4, inserted at angles of disk, connective very large, 

 anth. -cells small, divergent at base ; ov. immersed in disk, 

 4-celled, with I pendulous ovule in each cell, style very short, 

 stigma minute ; fruit a loculicidal, 1-4-celled and -seeded 

 capsule ; seed nearly covered by aril, embryo large, in axis of 

 endosperm, cotyledons flat, leafy. — Sp. 6 ; 3 in FL B. Iiid. 



G-. zeylanicum, Thw. in Kew Journ. Bot. viii. 263 (1856). 

 Thw. Enum. ^t^. C. P. 589. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 612. Kew Journ. Bot. viii. t. 7 B. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 

 anal. 9 f. 5. 



A small tree, young parts glabrous ; 1. "^^-^ in., oval or 

 lanceolate, tapering at both ends, usually acuminate, acute, 

 sharply and shallowly serrate or nearly entire, glabrous, 

 petiole I in.; fl. \-% in., arranged in smooth, stalked, dicho- 

 tomously paniculate, extra-axillary cymes shorter than 1., 

 ped. over 5 in.; pet. very obtuse or truncate, fleshy, reflexed; 

 disk very conspicuous ; capsule 1-4-lobed, depressed, green, 

 smooth; seed if in,, ovoid, aril crimson. 



Moist low country to its upper limit; rather common. Pasdun 

 Korale; Morowak Korale; Kaduganawa; Ambagamuwa; Hantane; Uva. 

 Fl. P^b.; pale green. 



Also in Annamally Hills, S. India. 



3. BIZCROTROPIS, Wall. 



Shrubs or trees ; fl. sessile, in small clusters ; sep. 5, 

 rounded, strongly imbricate; pet. 5, often slightly connate at 

 base; disk annular, slightly lobed; stam. 5, inserted on upper 

 edge of disk ; ov. 2-celled, with 2 collateral ovules in each 



