414 xxix. LINEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Houcltcria. 



1. R. Griffithiana, Plnnch. in Hook. Lond. Jour. Sot. vi. 143, vii. 

 527 ; leaves lanceolate or elliptic- or obiWate-lanceolate obtusely caudate- 

 acuminate crenate-serrate, drupe 1 -celled 1 -seeded. 



MALACCA, Griffith, Main gay. DISTRIB. Sumatra, Borneo. 



A climbing shrub, perfectly glabrous. Leaves 3-5 in., alternate, coriaceous, compli- 

 cate, shining above, nerves few, arched; petiole in., slender. Flowers in. ilium., 

 7-8 in a cluster; pedicels very short, densely bracteate. Petals narrow, very fugacious. 

 Drupe the size of a small pea. There cannot be much doubt of this constituting the 

 genus Sarcotheca, Blume, though he describes tin- calyx as cbrncteate, the ovules as 

 superposed, and the fruit as a bacciform capsule, dehiscing by 5 apical fissures. 



6. ERYTHROXYLON, Linn. 



Shrubs or small trees, usually quite glabrous. Leaves alternate, quite 

 entire, often Btibdistichous ; stipule intrapetiolar, often imbricating mi 

 short arrested leafless tranche-. Axillary, small, white or pink, 



solitary or fascicled ; peduncles bracteolate, S jmln :>, rarely (>, free or 

 connate. Petals 5, hypogynous, deciduous, with an erect double ligula on 

 the inner face, imbricate. Stitnim* lo, rarely 12, iilaments united into a 

 glandular or eglandnlar tube. O/v//-// :j- rarely 4-celled ; styles 3, rarely 4, 

 free or connate (connate in all Indian .species), stigmas capitate ; ovules 1, 

 rarely 2 in each cell. />////*> 1-celled, 1-seoled. S<-<tl witli a thin trsta, 

 alliumen variable in quantity or 0; embryo straight, cotyledons plano- 

 convex, radicle short. DISTRIB. Species about 50, four-fifths of them 

 American, and almost all tropical. The Indian species are not easy of 

 discrimination. 



* Leaves glaucous brown beneath when dry. 



1. E. monogynum, llo.rl*. ('<>,-. /'/. i. t. 88; Fin-. I ml. ii. 449; 

 leaves 1-2 by -|-l in. ubovate or elliptic- or cuneate-obovate tip rounded 

 hardly shining above pah- gluumus brown heneath when dry, nerves 

 oblique much reticulated, peduncles | \ in. E. indicum, Bedaome I-'lr. 

 M//t>,tf.t.Kl. Sethia indica, DC. Prodr. i. 570 ; \VII. <'/. <;s4b ; II 

 Prodr. 10(5 ; Wnjht III. t. 48. 



Hilly parts of the Yu STI:I:N I'F.XINSULA, fiottler, &c. ; CEYLON, in hot dry parts of the 

 Island. 



A shrub with pale bark. Leaves the smallest of the Indian species, always more or 



tie;i1e-ol>i>vate, the primary nerves hardly distinguishable from the secondary, 



and these last not connected with an evident intramarginal one : petiole sometimes in. 



The Ceylon specimens have larger leaves and longer pedicels. This is very closely 



allied to, if not identical with, an Eastern African species. 



2. B. Kunthianum, Wall Cat. 6849 (Sethia ?}; leaves 2^-3 J by 

 f-li in. elliptic-lanceolate rarely elliptic-obovate acute or acuminate 

 rarely obtuse or rounded at the tip opaque above pale glaucous-brown 

 beneath when dry with a reddish midrib, nerves sub-horizontal very faint. 

 ? E. Kunthianum, Kurz in Jouni. Beng. Asiat. Soc. xli. pt. ii. 294. 



EASTERN BENGAL, and Khasia hills, alt. 3-5000 ft. ; ? Martaban, Kurz. 



A shrub, 3-6 ft. ^ Leaves very faintly reticulate on both surfaces, the secondary 

 nerves not collected into an obvious intramarginal nerve ; petiole very short. Drupe 

 4 in. long, slender, equalling the pedicel. 1 have not seen Kurz's specimens. 



VAR. ? Parishii; leaves smaller 1^ in. acute pale with more prominent nerves. 

 Top of Thounggyun in Moulmein, Parish. 



3. E. burmanicum, Griff. Notul. iv. 468 ; Ic. Plant. Asiat. t. 581, f. 3 

 (flower}} a tree, leaves 1-2| by |-1| in. obovate -oblong or obovate very 



