Atalantia.] xxxui. RUTACE^:. (J. D. Hooker.) 513 



Cur. xviii. 324. Sclerostylis zeylanica, Wight III. i. 109; Thwaites Enum. 46. 

 S. Arnottia,na, Wight III. I.e. 



WESTERN PENINSULAR Phoondah Ghat, in the Concan, Ritchie; Nilghiris, Beddome ; 

 CEYLON, common in the warmer parts of the island; ? MALACCA, Griffith. 



A bush or small tree, unarmed or armed with very straight spines, \-\ in. long. 

 Leaflet extremely variable, 17 in., elliptic-oblong ovate-oblong obovate or almost lan- 

 ceolate, simply obtuse or with an emarginate or 2-lobed tip. Racemes rarely exceeding 

 =| in. Flowers quite similar to those of A., racemosa, and on equally short pedicels ; 

 buds globose. Ovary sunk in the annular disk. The Malacca specimens have no 

 flowers, the leaf is 5-6 in., elliptic-lanceolate, more attenuate at the obtuse entire tip, 

 and the globose fruit f in. diam. when dry. 



VAR. rotund/folia, Oliv. I.e. ; Thwaites, Enum. 405 ; leaves rounded or obovate or 

 everi obcordate. Sclerostylis rotundifolia, Thwaites, I.e. 46. Ceylon, at Maturatte, 

 alt. 4000 ft. and upwards, Thwaites. 



4. A. caudata, Hook.f. ; leaflet elliptic-lanceolate caudate-acuminate 

 with a broad 2-lobed tip, flowers small in very short glabrous racemes, 

 calyx very small 4-5-lobed, ovary 2-celled, ovules 2 collateral. A. Kox- 

 burghiana, Okv. in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. Suppl. ii. 25. Limonia 1 caudata, 

 Wall. mss. in Herb. Hook. 



KHASIA MTS., at Churra, alt. 4000ft., H. f & T. (Hort. Bot. Calc. Wallich). 



A glabrous unarmed shrub, with slender branches. Leaflet 3-4 in., much narrower 

 and more narrowed at each end than in any congener, margin quite entire, tip some- 

 times dilated. Racemes ^ in., peduncles and pedicels much more slender than in its 

 congeners. Flowers |-g in. diam., white, fragrant, usually 4-merous, buds rather 

 longer than broad. Calyx very small. Petals obovate-oblong. Stamens quite free ; 

 anthers ovoid. Ovary sessile on a disk narrower than itself; stigma subcapitate. A 

 very distinct species, distributed as S. Roxburghiana ? by T. Thomson and myself. 



5. A. Roxburg*hiana, Hook.f. (not of Oliver) ; leaflet elliptic-lanceolate 

 acute, racemes axillary short few-flowered, calyx 4-lobed, filaments free, 

 ovary 2-celled. Amyris simplicifolia, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 244. Sclerostylis 

 Eoxburghii Wight Ic. t. 72. 



PENANG, Roxburgh ; ? MALACCA, Griffith. 



Branches slender, apparently without spines. Leaflet 4-5 in., narrowed at both 

 ends, subacute, nerved exactly as in all its congeners (except L. missionis} ; petiole 

 \ in. Racemes 1 in., 5-6-flowered. Flowers nearly ^ in. diam., buds globose. Califx 

 obtusely 4-lobed. Petals obovate. Filaments free short subulate ; anthers ovoid-oblong. 

 Ovary ovoid, apparently sessile ; the disk not being represented in Roxburgh's drawing 

 tapering into a toothed stigma (probably incorrectly figured) ; cells with 2 collateral, 

 ovules in each. Berry (in Griffith's specimen) globose, in. diam. when dry. A .very 

 little known plant, of which there is a figure amongst Roxburgh's drawings (copied by 

 Wight in his Icones), and with which I provisionally identify a fruiting specimen of ;i 

 Malacca plant collected by Griffith. 



** A nthers linear-oblong. Ovary stipitate. 



6. A. xnissioniB, Oliv. in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. Siqypl, 25 ; leaflet oblong- 

 obovate or elliptic opaque margin undulate when dry articulation obsolete 

 nerves very obscure, racemes very short, calyx 4-5-lobed, ovary usually 

 4-celled, stigma capitate, ovules 2 collateral. Bedd. Flor. Sylvat. Anal. 

 Gen. xlvi. Limonia missionis, Wight in Hook. Bot. J//.sc. iii. 291 ; 8uppl. 

 t. xxxiii; Ic. t. 175; W. & A. Prodr. 92. L. 1 missionis, Wall. Cat. 6358, 

 A, B, 0. Chilocalyx ellipticus, Turcz. in Ball Soc. flat. Mosc. 1863, 

 588. 



WESTERN PENINSULA ; Redhills, Madras, and other places on both sides of the Preai? 

 dency. CEYLON, in the hotter parts. 



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