Daphtiiphyliuni.] Euphovbiacecs. 41. 



4. A. aoumlnata, Thw. Ejium. 288. 

 Muell. Arg. 1. c. 473. C. P. 2530. 



Fl. B. Ind. V. 348. 



A small tree, slightly branched; twigs very slender; young 

 parts pubescent; 1. 2-^-3 in., lanceolate, acute at base, caudate- 

 acuminate, acute, glabrous, thin; petiole \ in., slender; male 

 fi.: — spikes short, under f in., usually solitary; cal. pubescent; 

 fern. fl. solitary; ov. silkily hairy, stigmas shortly bifid, spread- 

 ing; fr. I in. long, ovate-ovoid, hairy, tipped with reflexed 

 styles, pericarp hard-fleshy, irregularly dehiscent, smooth, red; 

 seeds 3, each with a reddish pulpy covering. 



Moist region, 2-3000 ft. ; rare. Ambagamuwa ; Pitigalakande, near 

 Balangoda. Fl. Sept.; greenish. 

 Also at Tinnevelly, S. India. 

 Dries a pale whitish-green. 



5. A. Aisiforinis, T/nc. Enuin. 288 (1861). 



A. Tkwailesu, Baill. Et. Euph. 645 (name only). Muell. Arg, 1. c. 

 471. C. P. 30. 



Fl. B. Ind. V. 351. 



A middle-sized tree; bark brown; twigs stout; young 

 parts glabrous; 1. 2^-4^ in., from broadly oval to almost 

 rotundate, acute or rounded at base, very obtuse at apex, 

 often with revolute edges, glabrous, thick and coriaceous, 

 purple when young; fl. sessile, male spikes 1-4 together, 

 f-i in., bracts rounded, ciliate and ferrugineo-pubescent ; fern, 

 fl. 2-6 in a cluster; ov. glabrous; fr. about f in., in short 

 axillary spikes, fusiform, capped with stigmas, glabrous, 

 pericarp rather thin, cells hairy within ; seeds i or 2, oblong, 

 plano-convex. 



Forests of the montane zone, 4-6000 ft.; rather common. Dimbula; 

 Dickoya ; Ramboda ; Adam's Peak ; Ambagamuwa, &c. FI. Dec- 

 March ; yellowish. 



Endemic. 



17. DAPKNIPHVXiXiUM, Bl. 



A tree; 1. long-petioled, entire, without stip. ; fl. apetalous, 

 dioecious, in axillary racemes; male fl. : — sep. 5-8, minute; 

 stam. 5-8 with very large apiculate anth. ; no disk or pistillode ; 

 fern. fl. : — sep. as in male, but deciduous; ov. imperfectly 

 2-celled, with 2 ovules in each cell, stigmas thick, recurved, 

 undivided; fr. an ovoid drupe; seed solitary, testa mem- 

 branous, embryo small in thick fleshy endosperm, cotyledons, 

 narrow. — Sp. 11; 7 m Fl. B. Ind. 



