Cleistafit/ius.'] EupJiorbiacecs. 1 3 



3. C. robustus, Muell. Arg. I. c. 504 (1866). 



Amanoa indica^ Thw. Enum. 428 (non Wight). C. P. 3721. 

 Fl. B. Ind. V. 279. 



A small tree with slender twigs ; young parts glabrous; 1. 

 3-7 in., oblong-oval or ovate, acute at base, acuminate-caudate, 

 subcoriaceous, glabrous and shining above, pale and with 

 rather conspicuous reticulate venation beneath ; petiole stout ; 

 fl. sessile, in axillary clusters, or in distant spreading spikes 

 shorter than 1.; cal. pubescent, segm. acute; disk of fern. fl. 

 with acute lobes; capsule f in., globose-pyriform, 3-lobed, 

 glabrous. 



Moist low country, below 1000 ft. ; rare. Hewessee. Fl. March. 



Endemic. 



Dries a dark coppery brown. 



4. C. patulus, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 505 (1866). 

 Amanoa iiidica., forma minor, Thw. Enum. 428. C. P. 2151. 



Fl. B. Ind. V. 279. Wight, Ic. t. 191 1 {Amanoa indica). Bedd. For. 

 Man. t. xxiii. i. iv. 



A small tree with very slender twigs ; young parts pubes- 

 cent; 1. numerous, small, i|-3 in., ovate, rounded or subacute 

 at base, acuminate-caudate, obtuse, stiff, glabrous and shining 

 above, paler beneath; fl.-clusters very small, in very lax 

 axillary spikes; cal. pubescent, segm. lanceolate, acute; pet. 

 very small, rotundate; ov. hairy; capsule over \ in., faintly 

 3-lobed, usually apiculate, smooth. 



Moist low country, below 1000 ft. ; rather rare. Radnapura and other 

 places in Sabaragamuwa. Fl. March ; yellow. 

 Also in S. India. 



5. C. pallidus, Muell. Arg. I. c. 508 (1866). Visa, T. 

 Ama?toa pallida, Thw. Enum. 280. C. P. 2166. 



Fl. B. Ind. V. 279. Bedd. For. Man. t. 23, f. 4. 



A small much-branched tree; twigs slender; bark greyish- 

 brown ; young parts hairy ; 1. very numerous, on very short 

 petioles, i|-4| in., lanceolate or oval-lanceolate, tapering to 

 base, acuminate acute or obtuse, glabrous above, slightly 

 pilose, pale, and with prominent venation beneath ; stip. subu- 

 late, semi-spinous ; fl. sessile; bracts subulate; cal.-segm. 

 lanceolate, acute, pubescent; ov. densely tomentose, styles 

 very shortly bifid; capsule near f in., distinctly 3-lobcd, at 

 first hairy, but becoming glabrous, or nearly so. 



Var. fi, subg-lauca, Trim. Syst. Cat. 78. C. P. 3981. 



L. smaller, narrower, more acuminate, glaucous beneath. 



