350 THYMELEACEiE. 



Fruit seated on the flat or slightly saucer-shaped 

 perianth. 



NcolitsaBa zcylanica Men-ill; F.B.I, v 178 as 

 LITS^A, XII 63 ; Tallow tree. 



A small tree, glabrous. Leaves elliptic or elliptic- 

 lanceolate, acute at both ends, prominently three-nerved 

 at the base, but with fainter nerves beyond the middle : 

 lower surface impressed with very fine white reticulation 

 or rounded pits. Buds enclosed in scaly bracts, young 

 leaves silky. Flower-clusters, in bud Ye inch, in dense 

 masses at the leaf-axils. Perianth tube J^ inch, broaden- 

 ing to the lobes, silky. Fruit globose, /^ to ^ inch, 

 seated on a shallow cup % inch across. 



Nilgiris : on Elk hill near Ootacamund very abundant. 

 Kotagiri, Coonoor, etc. Flowering December. Pulneys. 

 Fyson 452, 1733, 1470, 2018/^ Bour?ie 1157, 2027. 



Gen. Dist. Western end of the Himalayas, South India from sea level 

 at Quilon to 7,000 feet, Burma, Malay Peninsula, Ceylon. 

 A form on the Pulneys has oblong fruits. Bourne 399. 



THYMELEACE/E. 



EUTHYMELEM. tribe, 



Dapline, Spurge-laurel- 

 Shrubs or trees with simple entire leaves, and clus- 

 ters, spikes or racemes of flowers, with simple tubular 

 perianth having four or five lobes, and sometimes near the 

 mouth also scales, two or ten stamens attached at varying 

 heights inside the tube, a superior one-celled ovary and 

 indehiscent fruit. 



Genera about 40. Species 360 in temperate and tropical 

 climates. 



LASIOSIPHON. F.B.I. 130 VII. 



Shrubs with slender twigs, opposite or alternate leaves 

 and dense terminal heads or clusters of silky-woolly 

 llowers, whence the narne (lasios soft, siphon tube). 



