Eriobotyya.] xlviii. rosace.e. 68 i 



less connate at base, apices dilate. Drupe or berry ovoid, i- to 

 5-locular, cells i- to 2-seeded. 



(i) E. bengalensis Hook. fil. F.B.I, ii. 371. Photinia dubia, 

 Wall. Cat. 



A shrub or tree. Leaves elliptic or oblong acuminate, narrowed 

 to base, crenate, glabrous ; nerves 8 to 12 pairs, 4 to 5 in. long, 

 175 in. wide; petioles 75 to i in. long. Panicles 2 to 3 in. long, 

 usually dense woolly, rather stout. Flowers "3 in. across, white, 

 fragrant. Calyx-tube obconic. Petals orbicular, claw woolly. 

 Styles 2, base woolly. Fruit 75 in. long, ellipsoid-ovoid, crowned 

 with the sepals, i- to 2-seeded, green. Hab. Rocky spots. Pahang, 

 Gunong Tahan (Robinson). Malacca at Bukit China (Griffith). 

 Bindings at Segari (Ridley). Disirib. Himalayas, Burma. 



Order XLIX. SAXIFRAGACE.E. 



Trees, shrubs or herbs. Leaves alternate or opposite ; stipulate 

 or not. Flowers bisexual, regular. Calyx more or less adnate to 

 ovary, sometimes free, sometimes inferior. Petals 5 or 4, peri- 

 gynous or epigynous. Stamens as many or double, rarely numerous. 

 Ovary of 2 to 3 or 5 united carpels, 2- to 3- or 5-celled with axile 

 placentas or i-celled with parietal placentas. Styles as many as 

 carpels, free or combined nearly to top. Ovules numerous. Fruit 

 capsular or berried. Seeds numerous (one in Polyosma). Species 

 600 in cold or temperate regions and mountains of tropics, with 

 a few tropical trees or shrubs. 



Sub-herbaceous shrub; leaves simple; flowers blue; 



fruit succulent . . . . . . . i. Dichroa 



Shrubs or trees ; leaves pinnate, stipulate ; fruit capsular, 



2-celled; seeds few . . . . . .2. Weinmannia 



Shrubs or small trees; leaves simple. 



Flowers 4-merous; fruit drupaceous, i-seedcd, 



inferior . . . . . . . • 3- Polyosma 



Flowers 5-merous ; fruit capsular, conic . . .4- Itea 



1. DICHROA, Lour. 



A sub-herbaceous shrub. Leaves opposite, lanceolate serrate, 

 membranous. Panicle terminal, many-flowered. Flowers and 

 fruits dark blue. Calyx-tube adnate to ovary, 5- to 6-toothed. 

 Petals 5 to 6 valvate. Stamens 10 to 12 epigynous. Ovary three- 

 quarters inferior, i-celled ; styles 3 to 5 ; ovules numerous on 

 3 to 5 parietal placentas. Berry blue. One species. 



(i) D. febrifuga Lour. Fl. Cochinchine, 301 ; Wall. PI. As. 

 Rar. t. 213; Bot. Mag. t. 3046; King, I.e. 298. 



Shrubby at base, 3 to 6 ft. tall, nearly glabrous. Leaves caudate- 

 acuminate, 4 to 5 in. long, 1-4 to I'S in. wide ; petioles "6 to 175 in. 

 long. Panicles large, lax, about 6 in. or more long and wide. 



