278 xxrii. GUTTIFER^E. (T. Anderson.) 



no means confined to the small-flowered states from S. India, to which the name of coro- 

 mandeliana has been applied ; the latter is a small and distinct-looking form. 



2. BE. Thwaitesii, Planch. & Trian. Mem. Guttif. 277 ; leaves linear- 

 oblong acute or acuminate, flowers subsessile. M. speciosa var. a, Thwaites 

 Eitum. 50, not of Choisy. 



Banks of streams in the Katnapoora district, CEYLON, Thwaites. 



A tree resembling M.ferrea, but distinguished by the form of the leaves and large 

 sessile or subsessile flowers. Leaves 8-12 by 1 1-2 in., base acute, glaucous and faintly 

 nerved beneath. Flowers nearly 4 in. diam., axillary, solitary or in pairs. 



3. 1H.? lepidota, T. Anders. ; leaves elliptic- or oblong-lanceolate 

 acuminate, racemes terminal. 



EASTERN PENINSULA ; Malacca, Griffith (distrib. Kew, No. 845, named M. speciosa 

 by error). 



Branches short, rather slender, terete. Leaves coriaceous, 2^-3^ by f-lj in., shortly 

 cuspidate, tapering to the obtuse base; veins very numerous^ close set. line, equally 

 faint on both surfaces. Flowers unknown. Fruit size of a chestnut, snbglobose, pointed, 

 subtended by the thickened obtuse sepals, valves thiek, surfaee rupulose as if scurly. 

 Seed with a brown brittle testa. Probably a new genus between Kaijea and M> MM, 

 on account of the small woody non-accrescent sepals. 



6. FCECILONEURON, Beddome, 

 (\V. T. Thiselton Dyer.) 



Trees. Leaves opposite, smooth, coriaceous, with close-set spreading lateral 

 veins* minutely reticulated. Flowers yellowish-white, in a terminal panicle, 

 or solitary at each node. >SV ///.. -l-f>, small, imbricate. Petals 5-6, nntrtnl. 

 slightl 



numerous, free or slightly connate at the base, filaments short or (); 

 anthers basifixed, narrow-linear, erect. Ovary 2-celled ; styles 2, subulate, 

 stigmas punctit'onn ; ovules 2 in each cell, ascending from the base. CV/yw/A- 

 ovoid, 1-celled, septicidal?, with a single erect seed, albumen 0; cotyledons 

 fleshy ; radicle minute, inferior. DISTKIB. S. India ; species 2. 



1. P. indicum, Bedd. in Jonrn. Linn. S<>c. viii. 267, t. 17 ; Flor. 

 Sylvat, t. 3 ; flowers in a pyramidally spreading terminal panicle 4 in. long, 

 sepals and petals each 5, anthers lobulated. 



WESTERN PENINSULA ; on the west slopes of the Ghats, from South Canara to Mala- 

 bar, alt. 3-4000 feet., Beddome. 



A large tree. Leaves 4-10 by H~24 in., elliptic, with a long acumination, petioled. 

 Peduncles, pedicel*, and sepals slightly puberulous. Flowers f in. diam., yellowish 

 white. Fruit ellipsoid. 



2. P. pauciflorum, Bedd. Flor. Sylvat. t. 93 ; flowers about 4 together 

 and terminal or solitary at each node, sepals 4 the 2 innermost larger, 

 petals 6, anthers simple. 



WESTERN PENINSULA ; Travancor, alt. 4-5000 ft., Beddome. 



A tree with red wood. Leaves about 5 by 14 in., narrowly elliptic. Petals oblong, 

 obtuse. Fruit 1 in. long, 4 in. diani., at first obpyriform, finally ovoid and rather 

 smaller than in P. indicum. 



