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1. Eurya japonica, Tluinh. Nov. Gen. (17S3) p, 68, vae, Tlmn- 

 ber(jii, Tlnv. Eniim. (1858) p. 41. A shrub reacliiug 15 feet in height; 

 young branches glabrous, striate. Leaves 2-4 in. long, lanceolate, acu- 

 minate serrate, acute at the base ; petioles | in. long. Flowers in 

 axillary fascicles of 1-3, small ; bracts 2, beneath the flowers, small, 

 oblong, obtuse; pedicels short. Sepals unequal, the 2 outer the smaller, 

 ovate or suborbicular, glabrous, persistent. Petals white, elliptic- 

 oblong, about twice as long as the sepals. Stamens 5-15. Styles 3. 

 Fruit J-| in., ovoid or subglobose, tipped with the persistent style, 

 glabrous. Fl. B. I. v. 1, p. 284; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 1, p. 109. Euri/a 

 japonica, Thunb. Fl. Japon. (1784) p. 191, t. 25 ; Bedd. Flor. Sylvat. 

 V. 1, t. 92; Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. IG ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 3, 

 p. 302. 



Flowers all the year (Trhnen). 



Tliis plant has been included on the authority of a specimen in Herb. Xew. ticketed 

 " Konkan, Stocks," without any further information as to the locality from which it 

 was obtained. It does not seem to have been found by any other collector. 



2. GORDONIA, Ellis. 



Trees. Leaves evergreen, entire or crenate. Flowers solitary and 

 axillary, or crowded at the ends of the branches, often subsessile, 

 bracteate. Sepals usually 5, unequal, graduating from the bracts to the 

 petals. Petals free or slightly connate, much imbricate, the inner the 

 larger. Stamens indefinite, usually 5-adelphous, or conuate into a ring, 

 or adnate to the base of the petals. Ovary 3-5- (rarely 6-) celled ; 

 ovules 4-8 in each cell, pendulous ; style simple ; stigma 5-lobed. 

 Capsule woody, oblong, loculicidal ; axis persistent. Seeds flat or com- 

 pressed, prolonged upwards into an oblong wing ; albumen ; embryo 

 generally straight, oblique ; cotyledons ovate, flat or slightly crumpled ; 

 radicle small, superior. — Distrib. jN". America, tropical Asia and Malaya; 

 species about 10, 



1. Gordonia obtusa, Wall. Cat. (1828) 1459. A tall tree. Leaves 

 2-4 by 1-1 5 in., elliptic-lanceolate, obtuse, often emarginate, crenulate, 

 acute at the base, glabrous, shining; petioles ^ in. long. Flowers 14 in. 

 across, white ; pedicels | in. long. Sepals orbicular-oblong, silky out- 

 side. Petals obcordate, pubescent outside, slightly connate at the base ; 

 styles combined to the apex ; stigma peltate, 4-5-lobed. Capsules 

 I-I5 in. long, oblong; valves deeply sulcate towards the apex. Seeds 

 terminated by a leafy wing. Fl. B. I. v. 1, p. 291 ; Wight, Spicil. 

 Nilgher. v. 1, t. 20 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 17 ; Watt, Diet. Econ, Prod. 

 V. 3, p. 533. — Flowers : July-Sept. 

 Konkan : Stocks I ; Ghats, Talbot. 



Oeder XXIIL DIPTEROCARPACE^. 



Eesiniferous trees. Leaves alternate, entire or sinuate-creuate, penni- 

 nerved ; stipules usually small, deciduous or inconspicuous, sometimes 

 larger and persistent, or caducous leaving an annular scar. Flowers 

 regular, hermaphrodite, fragrant, in axillary or terminal panicles ; bracts 

 usually minute or 0, rarely large and persistent. Flowering calyx free 



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