222 IXXVIII. OLA0ACB.E. 



KoNiCAN : liigh hills, Dahell !, Laxv ! ; Oampuli, Woodrow ! Deccan : Dabili, near 

 Poona, Wuodrow ! Kanaka. : common in the evergreen forests of the Ghats of 

 ^. Kanara, from Ainshi southwards, Talbot; Falls of Gairsoppa, Talbot'. — Distrib. 

 India (W. Peninsula) ; Ceylon, Malacca. 



3. Olax nana, Wctll. Cat. (1828) 6783. A low undershrub ; 

 branches from a woody rootstock, twiggy. Leaves subsessile, 1-2| by 

 |-| in., oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, glabrous, base usually acute ; midrib 

 strong, riowers 4~f\- in. long, white, solitary, axillary ; pedicels slender, 

 \-k in', long. Calvx free, miniite, cup-shaped, truncate or obscurely 

 lobed. Petals 3, oblong-obovate, rounded at the apex, the tip inflexed, 

 cohering about half M'ay up but readily separable. Stamens 3, one in 

 the centre of each petal, a little more thari half the length of the petal 

 and adnate to it about half way up ; anthers yellow. Staminodes 6, 

 one at each edge of each petal and a little shorter than it. Ovary 

 ovoid ; style shorter than the stamens. Fruit globose, \ in. long, 

 apiculate, deep yellow when ripe, nearly covered by the accrescent calyx, 

 1-seeded. Fl. B. I. v. 1, p. 576; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 

 (1897) p. 270; AVatt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 5, p. 479. 



Gujarat : Rajkot (Kathiawar), C. Macnaghten ! — Distuib. India (W. Himalaya, 

 Punjab, Nipal). 



3. STROMBOSIA, Blume. 



Trees or shrubs, usually glabrous. Leaves alternate, coriaceous, quite 

 entire. Flowers small, in axillary cymes, regular, hermaphrodite. 

 Calyx : a shallow cup, more or less 5-lobed. Petals 5, free, hairy within, 

 valvate. Stamens 5, opposite the petals aiad adnate to them ; anthers 

 2-celled. Staminodes 0. Ovary inferior or superior, more or less 

 imperfectly 4-5-celled, surrounded by a lobed disk ; ovules 4-5, pendu- 

 lous from a central i)lacenta. Fruit drupaceous : stone crustaceous. 

 Seed pendulous ; embryo minute, within fleshy albumen. — Distrib. 

 Species 6, one in Tropical Africa, the others Tropical Asiatic. 



1. Strombosia ceylanica, Gard. in Calc. Journ. Kat. Bist. v. 6 

 (1846) p. 350. A large tree with greyish bark. Leaves coriaceous, 

 3l_(3i by 1 J_2i in., oblong-lanceolate, shortly acuminate, acute or ol)tuse, 

 gfiibrous, base inequilateral, usually acute ; petioles ^ in. long, glabrous. 

 Flowers subsessile, crowded in heads on axillary scaly tubercles. Calyx 

 mintite; lobes very short, suborbicular. Petals longer than the calyx, 

 linear-oblong, acute, externally glabrous, hairy within, recurved at the 

 apex. Filaments opposite the petals and adnate to them throughout 

 their whole length, the anthers appearing as if sessile in the centre of 

 the petals about one-third the way bdow their apex. Disk large, fleshy. 

 Ovary inferior, adnate to the calvx-tube,5-celled. Fruit pyriform when 

 young, more or less globose when old, apiculate, rugose, deep purple, 

 tuberculate when ripe. F'l. B. I. v. 1, p. 579 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 1, 

 p. 257 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 45 ; AVoodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 

 (1897) p. 270. SpJuerocarya leprosti, Dalz. in Hook. Kew Journ. v. 3 

 (1851) p. 34; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 223.— Flowers : Dec. 



Konkan: Law\; in the Wari Oom\try, Da I eel I if- Gibson; Konkan Gliats, Talbot. 

 Kanaka: Dahell'.; Puteli (N. Kanura), Woodruw ; N. Kanara Ghiits, Talbot.— Distihu. 

 India (W. Peninsula); Coylou. 



