Palaqmum.'] SapOtaceCB. 8 1 



Forests of moist low country; rather rare. Colombo; Negombo; 

 Galle; Pasdun Korale. Fl. March-April, September; brownish-white. 



Endemic. 



Varies much in size of leaves. The wood of this also seems to be 

 called ' Wana-Mi ' in S. Prov. 



5. B. fulva, Bedd. Fl. Sylv. For. Man. 140 (1873 ?) Wana-mi, 5". 



Dasyaulus fulvus^ Thw. Enum. 176. Illipe fiilva^ Engl. 1. c. C. P. 

 3446. 



Fl. B. Ind. iii. 545. 



A moderate-sized tree, bark brownish-grey, young shoots 

 densely covered with copious orange tomentum ; 1. few, on 

 stout, densely tomentose petioles about f in. long, broadly 

 oval or oblong-oval, acute or subacute at base, shortly acu- 

 minate, glabrous above when mature and fulvous-hairy on the 

 veins beneath (when young densely covered on both sides 

 with orange-fulvous tomentum), rather thick, venation promi- 

 nent beneath, depressed above; fl. numerous, in clusters of 

 4-8 from tomentose prominent bosses in axils of fallen I. 

 ped. \\ in., glabrous; cal. nearly \ in., outer segm. oval 

 acute, glabrous, recurved, inner obtuse, densely fulvous- 

 tomentose, erect ; cor. not seen ; fruit (immature) \\ in. 

 ovoid, pointed, glabrous. 



Moist low country below 1000 ft; rare. Hewesse; Eknaligoda, FL 

 April, August. 

 Endemic. 

 Wood very hard and heavy, yellowish-brown. 



5. PAI.AQUIUM, Blanco (1837). 



Trees, 1. alt., entire, fl. small in axillary fascicles ; cal. 

 deeply cut into 6 segm., in 2 series, the outer valvate, the 

 inner imbricate; cor.-lobes 6, imbricate; stam. 12, inserted in 

 one row on cor.-tube, anth. acute, sometimes 2-horned ; stami- 

 nodes o; ov. 6-celled, style long, simple; fruit globose or 

 ovoid, fleshy ; seed solitary, without endosperm. — Sp. over 

 30 ; 1 5 in Fl. B. Ind. 



Our species are apparently ill-defined, but I have had little opportunity 

 of examining them in a living state. All are endemic, and inhabit the wet 

 forests of the low moist region. They yield a milky juice (Gutta-percha), 

 but none is collected from Ceylon species. (The best sort is obtained 

 from P. Gutta, Burck, of the Malay Peninsula, figured in Bentl. and 

 Trim. Med. PI. t. 167). 



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