2/0 Celastracece. \Pleurostylia. 



in bud ; disk large, pcrigynous, annular, lobed ; stam. 5, 

 inserted on top of disk; ov. 3-cclled, with 2 pairs of ascending 

 ovules in each cell, style short, stigma capitate, slightly 

 3-lobed ; fruit a 3-celled, 3-valved, loculicidal capsule, with 

 4 seeds in each cell ; seeds with a large wing, cotyledons flat, 

 oval, no endosperm. — Sp. 3 ; 2 in Fl. B. Ind. 



K. zeylanica, Tlno. in Ke%u Journ. Bot. v. 380 (1853). Kokun^ 

 Wana-potu, 6". 



Thw. Enum. 52. C. P. 2584. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 616. Kew J. Bot. v. t. 6. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 146. 



A very large tree, much branched, bark rough, corky, 

 grey, bright yellow within, young parts glabrous ; 1. 2 J-4 in., 

 obovate, cuneate at base, rounded or retuse at apex, entire or 

 faintly serrate, coriaceous, glabrous, paler beneath and there 

 punctate with numerous, minute, glandular dots each covered 

 by a red scale, petiole about \ in., stip, very minute, triangular, 

 persistent; fl. | in., in axillary or extra-axillary panicles much 

 shorter than 1., ped. glabrous, bracts minute ; cal. glabrous, 

 lobes very shallow ; pet. rounded, concave, thick, dotted 

 within; stam. shorter than pet.; disk fleshy, dark green; 

 capsule nearly 4 in., oblong-ovoid, bluntly trigonous, valves 

 thick, coriaceous, glabrous ; seed compressed, over 3 in. long 

 (with the wing), wing broadly oblong, straight on one side, 

 obtuse, veined, orange-yellow. 



Forests in moist region, between 1000-4000 ft.; rather rare. Pela- 

 wata, Pasdun Korale ; Ratnapura ; Porey (Ferguson) ; Ambagamuwa ; 

 Dimijula ; Sabaragamuwa (IVIoon) ; Udugama and Hiniduma Forests 

 (Capt. Walker). Fl. March-May; dull yellowish-brown. 



Also in the Annamally Hills, S. India. 



Moon's specimen is a young branch with leaves only, he appears to 

 have referred it to ' Siuietcnia Jcbrifuga'' (see under Soyniida). 



Wood pale yellowish-brown, smooth, light, readily splitting. The 

 inner bark is of a brilliant yellow colour, and is used by jewellers for 

 polishing gold embroidery, and also as a snuff when powdered. 



5. PZiEVaOSTVIiZA, Wight. 



A tree; 1. opp., with very minute stip.; fl. in axillary 

 cymes ; cal. cup-shaped, shallowly 5-lobed ; pet. 5 ; disk 

 perigynous, small, annular, lobcd; stam. inserted outside disk; 

 ov. 2- (or I-) celled, with 2 collateral ovules in each cell, style 

 very short, stigma large, capitate; fruit a small drupe, endo- 

 carp thin, crustaceo-fibrous ; seed solitary, erect, cotyledons 

 flat, rotundate, in axis of copious endosperm. — Monotypic. 



