Scieropyrum^ Santalacecs. 475 



with a pair of acute bracts at base; per.-segm. broad, acute, 

 with a small tuft of hair on upper surface, fil. very short ; fruit 

 \ in., ovoid, truncate, yellowish-white. 



Lower montane zone, 3-5000 ft., on patanas. Confined to the Province 

 of Uva, where it is abundant. Fl. April and August; pale green. 

 Also on the mountains of India. 

 Turns black when dry. 



\Santalum alburn^ L., the Sandal-wood, is given in Moon Cat. 11 as if 

 a native; the locality, ' Kandy.' It is C. P. 2915, but these specimens 

 are not localised. The tree is a native of Central Peninsular India, and 

 known in Ceylon as a cultivated tree only ; it was introduced (or re- 

 introduced) here in 1850.] 



2. SCIiEROPVRITM, Am. 



A tree with axillary spines, 1. alt., fl. small, polygamous, 

 crowded in short axillary spikes; perianth-tube in male fl. 

 solid, in bisexual fl. adnate to ov., segm. 5 ; stam. 5, opp. segm., 

 fil. bifid, the anth.-cells on separate stalks; ov. inferior, im- 

 mersed in per.-tube, placenta free, central, style short; fruit 

 large, pyriform- ovoid, indehiscent ; seed solitary, globose, 

 embryo in axis of copious endosperm. — Sp. 2 ; both in 

 Fl. B. Ind. 



S. Wallichianum, Am. in Mag. Zool. &^ Bot. ii. 550 (1858). 

 Pyrularia zeyla7iica, A. DC. in DC. Prod. xiv. 629. P. Wallichiana^ 

 A. DC, Thw. Enum. 251. C. P. 2555. 



Fl. B. Ind. v. 234. Wight, Ic. t. 241. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 304. 



A small tree, bark smooth, greyish-white, branchlets stout, 

 cylindrical, rather zigzag, armed with short sharp spines in 

 the axils ; 1. "^^-6 in., oblong-oval, acute or rounded at base, 

 obtuse or subacute, glabrous, coriaceous, 3-nerved at base, 

 brilliant red when young, petiole very short, stout ; fl. nearly 

 sessile, spike stout, catkin-like, densely pubescent, often several 

 from axil, bracts filiform, deciduous; perianth pubescent out- 

 side, segm. ovate, acute, with a tuft of hair in centre ; fruit 

 i^ in., tapering to stout stalk below and capped with per.- 

 segm., smooth, bright brick-red. 



Moist region, chiefly in montane zone, 4000-6000 ft., very rarely lower ; 

 rather rare. Gongalla; Maturata; Hakgala; Avisawella (Jowitt) ; Han- 

 tane. Fl. Nov.-March ; salmon-pink. 



Also in S. India. 



