94 LXiVir. SAPuTACK.E. 



terminal tuft of leaves, pedicellate. Calyx-segments G in 2 series, 

 subequal, the 3 exterior subvalvate, enclosing the 3 imbricate interior 

 ones. Corolla-lobes 6 in 2 series, usually acute, imbricate or contorted. 

 Stamens 12-18 (usually 12), attached to the base of the corolla, 1-seriate 

 or the alternate ones attached a little higher up ; filaments rather long 

 or the alternate shorter ; anthers lanceolate, dehiscing subextrorsely, 

 acute, obtuse, emarginate or bifid, the connective produced beyond the 

 cells ; staminodes 0. Ovary villous, 6-celled ; style subulate. Berry 

 fleshy, ellipsoid or ovoid. Seed solitary (or 2) ; testa crustaceous, 

 shining; albnm'^n ; cotyledons thick, fleshy ; radicle very short. — 

 DiSTEiB. S. India, Ceylon, and the Malayan Archipelago, 1 species in 

 Samoa ; species 30. 



1. Palaquium ellipticum, Enr/Ier, in Engl. ^- Prantl, PJInnzenf. v. 

 4, part 1 (IS97) p. 135. A large tree reaching 100 ft. high; trunk 

 without branches for a considerable height. Leaves 3-41- by lg-2-j- in., 

 elliptic or elliptic-obovate, shortly and obtusely acuminate, coriaceous, 

 dark-green above, paler beneath, glabrous on both sides, base acute ; 

 main nerves 8-12 pairs ; petioles 1-1 in. long, glabrous or faintly 

 puberulous. Plowers axillary ; pedicels solitary or 2 or 3 (rarely more) 

 together, pubescent or nearly glabrous, |-1| in. long. Calyx 6-partite, 

 densely villous with fulvous appressed hairs ; segments ^ in. long, 

 2-seriate, the 3 exterior broadly ovate, subacute, transversely rugose, 

 the 3 inner lanceolate, acute, narrower and a little longer than the 

 outer. Corolla | in. long, dark-red ; tube shorter than the lobes, hairy 

 inside ; lobes ovate-oblong, subobtuse, silky on the back. Stamens 

 12-18; filaments very short, hairy ; anthers narrowly lanceolate, acute, 

 the connective much produced and bifid at the apex. Ovar}'' villous ; 

 style exserted, glabrous. Berry 1| in. long, oblong, subacute, glabrous. 

 Dichopsis elliptica, Benth. & Ilook. f. Gen. PL v. 2, p. 658 ; C. B. 

 Clarke, in Hook. f. Fl. B. I. v. 3. p. 542; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, 

 p. 207; AVoodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) p. 163; AVatt, 

 Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 3, p. 102. Bassia elliptica, Dalz. in Kew Journ. 

 Bot. V. 3 (1S.")1) p. 36 ; Dalz. & Cibs. p. 139 ; Bedd. Plor. Sylvat. t. 43. 

 — Flowers : Feb. A'kux. Pdnchoti-pdUa. 



Western Ghats from Bombay southwards ascending to 4000 ft. Kanaka : Stocks I, 

 Bidzelll — DiSTRin. Southern jiarts of tlie W. Peninsula of India. 



'The Indian Gutta-percha Tree. Yields a gummy product known as ^^a'rf gum, which 

 lias been exported to Singapore for the purpose of adulterating gufta-pc rcha, the best 

 quality of which is the product of the Palaqiuum {Dichopsis) Gutta. See Watt, Diet. 

 Econ. Trod. 1. c. 



G. MIMUSOPS, Linn. 



Trees with milky juice. Leaves coriaceous, often with slender parallel 

 nerves. Flowers fascicled or solitary, axillary. Calyx- segments 6-S, 

 in 2 series, the exterior subvalvate, enclosing the interior imbricate 

 ones. Corolla-tubo short, broad ; lobes 18 or 24, of which 12 or ]6 

 are exterior and 1-2-soriate, 6 or 8 interior 1-seriato. Stamens 6 or 8, 

 attached at tlie base of the corolla and opposite the lobes of its interior 

 series; filamcnis short, dilated, free, or connate into a tube with the 

 staminodes ; anthers lanceolate, the connective usually produced beyond 

 the cells; staminodes 6 or 8, subpetaloid, variously toothed or lacerate, 

 alternate with the stamens in the same series, or connate at the base 



