Linociera. ] OUdCecE. 117 



ciliate; cor. divided almost to base, lobes or pet. \ in., linear; 

 drupe about \ in., obovate-ovoid, apiculate. 



Dry and intermediate regions ; very common, but scarcely extending 

 into the moist region. Fl. March, Sept., Oct.; white. 



Endemic. 



The Fl. B. Ind. gives a var. dichotoma from Ceylon only, but the 

 Chi07ianthus dichototna of Roxburgh was from Coromandel. Chionanthus 

 Ghceri, Gaertn. Fruct. i. 190, t. 39, from Ceylon, is indeterminable. 



\L. cotinifolia^ Willd. {Chionanthus zeylanica, Lam., non L.) is based 

 wholly on the imperfect figure of Plukenet (Phytogr. t. 241, f. 4), made 

 from a specimen said to have been brought from Ceylon by Tancred 

 Robinson. Moon (Cat. 3) also includes it, and gives the locality Kalu- 

 tara and a native name ' Hin-geriata.' But the specimens in Plukenet's 

 herbarium (in British Museum) prove to be the American Chionanthus 

 virginicus, L., and the statement that they came from Ceylon was, doubt- 

 less, an error (see Britten in Journ. Bot. xxxii. 38.)] 



2. Ii. albidiflora, Clarke, FL B. Ind. iii. 608 (1882). 

 Chionanthus albidiflora, Thw. Enum. 189. C. P. 472. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iii. 608. 



A large bush or small tree, bark smooth, whitish, young 

 parts glabrous; 1. 3-5 in. (occasionally larger), oval or oblong- 

 oval, on very short petioles, tapering to base, caudate-acuminate, 

 obtuse, glabrous, paler beneath, rather thick ; fl. few, on very 

 short ped., in opp. pairs on short racemose cymes f-i| in. 

 long from axils of present and fallen l, bracts small, pilose, 

 caducous ; cal. glabrous, segm. shallow, rounded ; cor. split 

 quite to base on two sides, but adjacent lobes connate at 

 base into 2 pairs, lobes or pet. about f in., linear, with 

 involute edges so as to be deeply channelled along upper 

 surface, spreading ; stam. very small ; ov. conical, style o ; 

 drupe a little over \ in., obovate-ovoid, minutely apiculate, 

 somewhat truncate at base, smooth, dull bluish-purple, pulp 

 juicy, scanty, stone thin, with 8 obscure vertical ribs. 



Var. j8, rostrata, Clarke, I. c. Chionanthus rostrata, Thw. 1. c. C. P. 

 3472. 



Cal. -segm. ciliate; fruit over i in., fusiform-oblong, bluntly 

 pointed. 



Low country, rather common, up to 3000 ft. Kitulgala; Hewaheta: 

 Balangoda; Galagama; Nilgala; Batticaloa Dist.; Doluwa Kande, Kuru 

 negala Dist. Var. /3, moist region only, rare. Hiniduma; Karawita. F 

 Sept.-March; yellowish-white. 



Also in Australia (Queensland). 



3. Zi. leprocarpa, Clarke, Fl. B. Ind. iii. 608 (1882). 

 Chionanthus leprocarpa, Thw. Enum. 189. C. P. 247 ^ 

 Fl. B. Ind. iii. 608. 



