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3. ISONAIMDRA, Wight. 



Trees with milky juice. Leaves coriaceous with prominent primary 

 nerves. Plowers small, in axillary clusters, subsessile or shortly pedi- 

 cellate. Calyx-segmeuts 4, 2-seriate. Corolla deeply 4-fid ; lubes 

 broad, imbricate. Stamens 8, subequal, attached at the base of the 

 corolla, 1-seriate ; filaments erect ; anthers oblong-lanceolate ; stanii- 

 nodes 0. Ovary hispid, 4-celled ; style subulate. Berry ellipsoid. Seed 

 usually solitary ; testa crustaceous, shining ; hilum lateral ; albumen 

 fleshy; cotyledons flat. — Disthib. India (W. Peninsula), Ceylon; 

 species 6. 



1. Isonandra CandoUeana, Wlgld, Icon. t. 1220. Leaves 2-3| 

 by 1-1 1 in., obovate-oblong, bluntly acuminate, glabrous on both sides, 

 i'lowers in rounded nearly sessile fascicles with small bracts at their 

 base. Calyx g in. long, divided almost to the base ; segments 4, broadly 

 ovate, veiy unequal, the exterior much larger, hairy and cihate. Corolla 

 deeply 4-partite; lobes obovate-oblong, emarginate, longer than the 

 tube. Stamens much shorter than the corolla-lobes ; anthers pubescent 

 at the apex. Ovary denselv hairy ; style much exserted. Berrv | by 

 \ in. I'l. B. I. V. 3, p. 539'; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 139 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb, 

 ed. 2, p. 206.— Flowers : Mar.-May. 



On the Ghats, not uncommon, Dalzell cf Gibson. 



This species is included on the autlioritv of Dalzell & Gibson {I. c). I have 

 seen no specimens from tlie Eombaj' Presidency; there are none in Herb. Kew. 

 Woodrow does riot inchide the phiut in his Hst, and Talbot has never seen it nor have 

 any of the Poona plant-collectors found it. Dalzell & Gibson say that it is not 

 uncommon, b>it as it has not been met with by any other botanists, T think its existence 

 in the Bombay Presidency more than doubtful. — Distkib. Nilghiri mountains. 



Isonandra StocJcsii, 0. B. Clarke, in Hook. f. Fl. B. I. v. 3; p. 539, is stated in the 

 Fl. B. I. to occur in the Konkan, but it has never, so far as I know, been found there by 

 any botanists. Neither Talbot nor Woodrow have seen it. There are 2 specimens in 

 Herb. Kew., the tickets on which are printed ones on which appear the words " Hab. 

 Malabar, Concan &c. Coll. Stocks, Law &c." 



There is therefore no certainty as to the locality from which these specimens came, 

 and they are not authenticated by the signatures of either Law or Stocks. 



4. BASSIA, Koenig ex Linu. 



Trees with milky juice. Leaves coriaceous, clustered near the ends 

 of the branches ; stipules caducoits. Flowers fascicled, crowded near 

 the apices of the branches among the leaves, or from the axils of fallen 

 leaves, pedicellate, often nodding. Calyx-segments 4, much imbricate, 

 2-seriate, the 2 outer enclosing the 2 inner. Corolla campanulate ; tube 

 broad ; lobes 6-12, erect, subcontorted in bud. Stamens at least twice 

 as many as the corolla-lobes, 12-40 (usually 16-20); filaments usually 

 short; anthers lanceolate, acute, the connective often produced; stami- 

 nodes 0. Ovary usually villous, 4-12-celled ; style subulate, often 

 elongate. Berry globose or ovoid, fleshy, 1-3 (rarely 4-5) -seeded. 

 Seeds ellipsoid, more or less compressed ; testa crustaceous, shining ; 

 hilum long, oblong or linear ; albumen ; cotyledons thick, fleshy ; 

 radicle very short. — Distkib. Ea^t Indies, Ct^lon, Malayan Archipelago ; 

 species 30. 



