XIII. BIXACE.^:, 57 



Sepals 5, much imbricate in bud. Petals 5, with a scale at the base of 

 each. Male flowees : Stamens 5-8 ; anthers oblong or reniform ; 

 connective broad. Ovary 0, or rudimentary. Female elowees : 

 Stamens as in the male, but without pollen or reduced to staminodes. 

 Ovary 1-celled ; ovules many, on 3-6 parietal placentas ; stigmas 3-6, 

 sessile or subsessile, spreading, dilated, lobed. Berry large, subglobose ; 

 pericarp woody. Seeds numerous; testa crustaceous ; albumen oily; 

 cotyledons foliaceous, broadly ovate, flat. — Disteib. Tropical Asia ; 

 species about 6. 



1. Hydnocarpus "Wightiana, Blume, liumpMa, v. 4 (1848) 

 p. 22. A tree, reaching 40-50 ft. in height. Leaves 5-9 by 1^-3 in., 

 ovate, oblong or lanceolate, acuminate, entire or serrate, glabrous, base 

 rouuded or acute ; petioles ^-| in. long; stipules lanceolate, deciduous. 

 Flowei's |-i in. in diam., solitary or in small racemes. Sepals 5, the outer 

 ovate, the 3 inner much larger, very concave. Petals 5, broadly oblong 

 or orbicular, rounded at the top, fringed with soft white hairs ; scales 

 about i the size of the petals, ovate, densely hairy. Male elowees : 

 Stamens 5, opposite the petals ; filaments subulate, hairy at the base, 

 about equalling the petals. Female flowees : Stamens 5, as in the 

 male; anthers without pollen. Ovary globose, hairy; stigmas flat on 

 the top of the ovary, each cuneate and 2-lobed. Berry globose or 

 obovoid, size of a small apple, tomentose. Seeds obtusely angular, 

 numerous, vellowish. PI. B. 1. v. 1, p. 196 ; Dalz. & Oibs. p. 11 ; Talb. 

 Trees, Bomb. p. 13; AVoodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 124; 

 "Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 4, p. 308. Hydnocarpus inebi-ians, AVall. 

 Cat. 6670; Wight, 111. v. 1, t. 16; Grab. Cat. p. 10.— Plowers: Jan.- 

 Apr. Veen. Kadu-Kavatli. 



The Konkaiis and Kanara, chiefly on hill ranges near the coast. Konkan : SfocJcsl, 

 Law I; near Goa, Sioc/csl, Balzclll; Vingorla, Blichie, 31!; S. Konkan, Talbot, 

 Dalzell ^~ Gibson; W. Ghats, widely, Woodrow. Kanaka: N. Kanara, Ritchie, 31 !; 

 evergreen forests, Talbot. 



Ordee XIV. PITTOSPORACE^. 



Shrubs or small trees. Leaves alternate or subverticillate, usually 

 quite entire, exstipulate. Flowers usually hermaphrodite and regular, 

 terminal or axillary. Sepals 5, imbricate, free or rarely connate at the base. 

 Petals 5, hypogynous, imbricate, longer than the sepals. Stamens 5, 

 hypogynous, free, alternating with the petals ; anthers versatile. Torus 

 small. Ovary 1-celled with 2-5 parietal placentas, or 2-5-celled by the 

 projection of the placentas; ovules many, parietal or axile, anatropous ; 

 style simple ; stigma terminal, entire or lobed. Fruit capsular or inde- 

 hiscent. Seeds usually numerous; testa thin, smooth or rarely rugose; 

 albumen hard ; embryo minute ; radicle next the hilum ; cotyledons 

 short or indistinct. — Uistrib. Genera 9 ; species about 90, chiefly 

 Australian. 



1. PITTOSPORUM, Banks. 



Erect shrubs or small trees, usually evergreen, glabrous or rarely 

 tomentose. Leaves entire or sinuato-dentate, subverticillate at the 



