78 Sapotacece. {Bassia. 



style exserted ; berry over f in., cylindrical, often narrowed 

 at base, smooth, soft, brilliant scarlet ; seed over \ in., hard 

 and highly polished, bright brown. 



Van /3, ang-ustata, Thw. I. c. C. P. 179. 



L. linear-lanceolate, gradually narrowed from below the 

 middle to apex. 



Var. y, montana, Thiv. I. c. C. P. 3092. 



L. obovate, very obtuse, coriaceous, smaller venation not 

 parallel. 



Var. ^, compta, Thw. in Fl. B. Ind. iii. 540. C. P. 3912. 



L. oval, densely covered beneath with fine fulvous hair, 

 smaller venation not parallel. 



\'^ar. e, major, Clarke, I. c. C. P. 45 (part). 



L. linear-oblong, 6-9 in., very acuminate. 



Moist region, 1000-6000 ft.; common in the lower montane zone, 

 rarer below it. Var. 7, Nuwara Eliya; Hantane. Var. ^, Adam's Peak. 

 Var. e, Hiniduma. Fl. Jan.-April ; pale yellow. 



Also in the Hills of S. India. 



I cannot see how to separate /. Wightiana, A. DC, from this. The 

 plant is extremely variable in foliage, but not otherwise. Wood hard 

 and heavy. 



4. BASSIA, Kcenig, ex Linn. 



Trees, 1. alt., with usually caducous stip., fl. in small axillary 

 clusters ; cal. cut nearly to base into 4 segm., in two pairs, 

 outer pair enclosing inner, persistent ; cor.-tube campanulate, 

 lobes 6-12 (usually 6), twisted; stam. twice as many as cor.- 

 lobes, usually 12, inserted on cor.-tube in one or two tiers, 

 anth. acute, usually mucronate; ov. 6- (rarely 8-) celled, style 

 simple, long; fruit ovoid, usually pointed ; seed solitary, coty- 

 ledons large, hemi-cylindric, fleshy, no endosperm. — Sp. 30; 

 13 in Fl. B. Ind. 



All the species but B. longifolia are endemic. 



Cor. -lobes 8-12 ; stam. in two tiers . . . i. B. LONGIFOLIA. 



Cor.-lobes 6 (very rarely 5) ; stam. in one tier 

 {Dasyaulns) 

 Mature leaves glabrous. 

 L. over 3 in. long. 



L. oval ; buds rusty-pubescent . . . 2. B. MoONIl. 



L. oblong-linear; buds glabrous . . . 3. B. nkriifolia. 



L. under 3 in. long 4. 1^. microphylla. 



Mature leaves hairy on veins beneath . . 5. B. fulva. 



