Putranjiva.'] E'UpIiorbiacecB . 35 



distinct imbricate sep.; disk o ; stam. 2 or 3, distinct; pis- 

 tiilode o; fern. fl. : — sep. 4-6; disk o; ov. 2- or 3-celled, with 

 2 ovules in each cell, styles 2 or 3, stigmas short, spreading, 

 broadly dilated ; fr. a drupe, with a hard thin endocarp, i- 

 celled by abortion ; seed solitary, testa crustaceous, embryo 

 with foliaceous cotyledons, in axis of copious endosperm. — 

 The only 2 species. 



Sep. of fern. fl. 5-6 ; fr. globose .... i. P. ROXBURGHII. 

 Sep. of fern. fl. 4 ; fr. pointed ... . 2. P. 2EYLANICA. 



I. P. Roxburg-hii, Wall. Tejif. Fl. Nep. 61 (1826). Vitchu- 

 runai, Karippalai, T. 



Thw. Enum. 287. P. spka:rocarpa, Muell. Arg. 1. c. 443. C. P. 2122. 

 Fl. B. Ind. V. 336. Wight, Ic. t. 1876. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 275. 



A moderate-sized tree ; bark whitish ; buds pubescent ; 

 1. 2i-3^ in., oval or lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acute and 

 unequal at base, shortly acuminate, faintly serrate, glabrous; 

 male fl. sessile, crowded in rounded clusters on a very short 

 axillary peduncle, fem. fl. solitary or in pairs; male fl.: — cal.- 

 segm. acute; stam. 3, fil. short, anth. globose; fem. fl. : — sep. 

 5-6, small, oval, subacute, ciliate; ov. flask-shaped, finely silky, 

 3-celled, styles 3, recurved, stigmas large, flabellate; drupe 

 nearly J in., globose, not pointed, densely finely tomentose, 

 pale green, stone hard, wrinkled. 



Dry region; rare. Haragama ; Kondesale ; Minneri. Fl. Feb.; 

 green. 



Also India and Burma. 



2. P. zeylanica, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. 2, 444 (1866). 

 Pelan, S. 



Pale/tg-a* zeylanica, Thw. in Kew Journ. Bot. viii. 271 ; Enum. 287. 

 C. P. 3349- 



Fl. B. Ind. V. :^2>7- Kew Journ. Bot. viii. t. 7, f. C. 



A tree, 40-50 ft. ; bark pale, smooth; young part glabrous; 

 1. 3^-4! in., on short glabrous petioles, oval-lanceolate, acute, 

 nearly equal at base, caudate-acuminate, slightly undulate, 

 but scarcely serrate at margin, rather coriaceous, glabrous, 

 and shining; fl. shortly pedicellate, the male numerous, the 

 fem. 1-3 together; male fl.: — sep. 2, obtuse, slightly ciliate; 

 stam. 2; fem. fl.: — sep. 4, rotundate, obtuse, slightly ciliate; 

 ov. as long as sep., densely pubescent, 2-celled, stigmas 2, 

 flat, sessile ; drupe (not seen ripe) ovoid, bluntly pointed, 

 nearly f in. long, densely finely tomentose. 



* From the Sinhalese name. 



