458 Thymelcsacece. [Lasiosiphon. 



Fruit indehiscent. 



Ov. i-celled; fruit dry. 



Fl. 4-merous i. Wikstroemia. 



Fl. 5-merous 2. Lasiosiphon. 



Ov. 2-celled ; fruit fleshy . . .3. Phaleria. 

 Fruit a 2-valved capsule {Aqiiilariecr) . 4. Gyrinops. 



I. -WZKSTROEDIZA, End/. 



Shrub, 1. opp. (rarely alt.), entire, fl. small, in axillary 

 racemes ; perianth tubular, lobes 4, short, without scales in 

 mouth; stam. 8 in 2 rows, inserted in upper part of tube; ov. 

 surrounded by a disk composed of a {e\v linear processes, 

 i-celled with a single suspended ovule, style o, stigma 

 globose ; fruit a dry drupe, included in persistent base of 

 perianth, indehiscent, i-seeded, stone crustaceous. — Sp. 20 ; 

 2 in F/. B. Ind. 



VT. canescens, Meissn. in Denkschr. Re^ensb. Bot. Ges. iii. 288. 



(1841). 



DapJine inania'jia^ Gardn. in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. vii. 454. W. 

 znatna'na, Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 547. W. virgata, Meissn., Thw. 

 Enum. 250. C. P. 2206. 



Fl. B. Ind. V. 195. Bedd. For. Manual, t. 25, f. 4. 



A small shrub, 1-3 ft., with slender erect branches, bark 

 reddish-brown, smooth ; 1. numerous, on very short petioles, 

 \\-2 in., oblong or obovate-oblong, acute at base, rounded 

 but sometimes apiculate at apex, glabrous, somewhat glaucous 

 beneath, lat, veins numerous, inconspicuous; fl. articulated on 

 short silky ped., in short, stalked, slender, drooping axillary 

 racemes, no bracts ; perianth about \ in., pubescent, segm. 

 oval, obtuse, spreading, fil. very short ; ov. hairy, very shortly 

 stalked. 



Upper montane zone. Nuwara Eliya ; Pedurutalagala ; Horton 

 Plains ; also near Peradeniya, but, no doubt, escaped from Bot. Gardens. 

 Fl. April, &c.; pale yellow. 



Also in E. Himalaya, N. China, Afifghanistan. Not in Indian 

 Peninsula. 



The inner bark gives a tough fibre. 



2. ZiASZOSZPHON, Frcsen. 



Small bush, 1. alt., fl. in terminal bracteated heads; peri- 

 anth with a long narrow tube; limb with 5 spreading segm. 

 and, alternating with them at the mouth, 5 small scales 

 (? pet.) ; stam. 10 in 2 rows inserted in top of tube ; ov. 

 superior, with a single pendulous ovule, style long, stigma 



