' Kokoona^ Celastrace<^. 269 



cell, style short, stigma faintly 4-lobed ; fruit a tardily 2-valved 

 capsule, I -celled, i -seeded; seed erect, without an aril, embryo 

 straight in axis of copious endosperm, cotyledons foliaceous. — - 

 Sp. 98 ; in Fl. B. Ind. 



L. acute or tapering at base i. M. Wallichiana. 



L. rounded or subcordate at base . . . 2. M. ramiflora. 



I I. M. Wallichiana, IVii^/if, in Thw. Emim. 71 (1858). 



^ C. P. 43- 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 613. 



A small or moderate-sized tree, young parts glabrous ; 

 1. 2^-6 in., shortly petiolate, oval or lanceolate, acute or 

 tapering at base, obtuse, usually acuminate, glabrous, entire; 

 fl. very small, about yV in., sessile or very nearly so, in small, 

 dense, axillary or extra-axillary fascicles ; pet. broadly oval, 

 somewhat narrowed at base ; capsule \-% in., fusiform-oblong, 

 narrowed to base, acute, apiculate, striate. 



Lovver montane zone ; rather common. Kellebokka ; Hunasgiria ; 

 Hantane; Deltota; Galagama; Adam's Peak; Haputale. Fl. Feb., 

 March ; white. 

 Endemic. 

 The Haputale specimens have the fruit shorter, only \-% in. long. 



y 2. JUL. ramiflora, IVight, Ic. iii. 3, 7 (1845). 

 Thw. Enum. 72. C. P. 148. 

 FL B. Ind. i. 613. Wight, Ic. t. 977. 



A much-branched shrub or small tree, twigs somewhat 

 angular, glabrous; 1. \-2\ in., variable, rotundate or broadly 

 or narrowly oval, rounded or subcordate at base, usually very 

 obtuse, entire, glabrous, very coriaceous, the margin often very 

 strongly revolute, petiole short, thick ; fl. about ^ in., sessile, 

 in small, dense, sessile or shortly pedunculate, axillary or 

 extra-axillary clusters; capsule | in., ovoid, tapering to apex, 

 apiculate, scurfy. 



Upper montane zone ; rather common. Nuwara Eliya ; Horton 

 Plains; Totapella ; Maturata ; Adam's Peak; Rangala. Fl. Nov.-Feb.; 

 white. 



Also in the Nilgiri Mts. of S. India, but Wight's figure above quoted 

 is not very good for our plant. 



Varies a great deal in the leaves ; in the Adam's Peak plant they are 

 remarkably cucullate. 



4. KOBLOONA,^ Thw. 



Large trees ; 1. opp., with minute stip. ; fl. in axillary 

 panicles; cal. cup-shaped, shallowly 5-lobed; pet. 5, contorted 



* From the Sinhalese name. 



