566 xxxvn. MELiACE.k. (W. P. Hiern.) [Bcddomea. 



14. BEDDOBIEA, Hook. fil. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves 1-5-foliolate, opposite or subopposite ; leaflets 

 quite entira Racemes ov panicle* axillary, few-flowered : flowers of mode- 

 rate size, subglobose hermaphrodite. Calyx 4-6-partite, with broadly 

 ovate imbricated segments. /Y/w/x 4-6, orbicular, much imbricated. 

 Staminal tube short or globose, crenulate ; anthers 5-6, sessile, partially 

 or wholly exserted ; connective thick ; cells narrow, marginal, at length 

 confluent at the apex. Ovary short, hairy, more or less immersed in the 

 inconspicuous disk, 3-celled ; cells 2-ovuled ; style short thick, stigma 

 3-lobed, pyramidal. Fruit coriaceous, ellipsoidal ovoid or subgiotnise, 

 often acute at the apex, more or less ribbed and densely covered with 

 closely set scurfy and stellate tomentum, tardily dehiscent, 2-3-celled ; 

 septa thin and often obsolete. Seeds 3-5, large, more or less angular, 

 exarillate (Beddomc}. DISTBIB. An endemic genus, 



1. B. indica, Hook. f. /// /;. ,,th. <(- Ilnolc. f. (leu. PL i. 336; yonng 

 shoots somewhat lepidote, leaflets 3. elliptic obtuse glabrate base some what 



cuneate, panicles lax racemose, pedicels usually long, ilowers 5-4-merous, 

 staminal tube sliort, anthers 5, fruit ovoid to oblong. J'mhl. in Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. xxv. 212; Anal. <i<-n. Ivi. ; Fl. Xt/twit. t. 135 (smaller figure). 



Wrsn i;\ PBHIMULA, from Kurg to Cape Coinorin, ascending to 3-4000 ft. Anemia 

 rocks, Sispara, ///;. Wight, 417. 



A twigi-y shrub. 'l.-nrc* (3-12 in., leaflets 3-7 by U-.'5 in.; petiolnles \ 1 in. 

 Flowers ^ 4 in. diani. l-'rn,ti 1 1^ in. long, inure or less furrowed, rough with di 

 rusty scales. 



2. B. simplicifolia, "Beddonu FL ,S'///''"'. t. 135; young parts with 

 scurfy scales, leaflets solitary elliptic or narrowly so subacuminate 

 glabrescent base obtuse or somewhat cuneate, panicles or racemes from 

 much shorter than the leaves to much longer or the flowers occasionally 

 solitary, flowers 5-6-merous, staminal tube large and globose or smaller, 

 fruit as in the genus. 



"\VKSTKKX J'KMNSI-LA ; from tin- S. Toucan to the Anamallay hills. 



A tree up to 3 ft. in girth ami 25 in height. Leaves 3-6 by 1 .', :'. i in. ; petioles -1 in., 

 much thickened and quasi-artirulatf.l in-ir the apex. / lun; /* variable in si/.e, ^ -j'-y in. 

 (Ham ; pedicels ^~k i n - l n g- F-ruit oblong, size of pigeon's egg. Beddome gives the 

 following varieties. 



VAR. a ; racemes much longer than the leaves, flowers ^-* 7 in. diam. rufous- 

 tomentose. Vv'ynaad, Tiuneveliy hills ami Travancor, alt. 2-4000 ft. 



VAK. (3, parvijiora ; panicles very small not much longer than the petioles, flowers 

 j 1 ^- ^ in. diam. rufous-tomentose. Anamallay and Pulney hills, alt :-l touo ft. 



VAK. y, racemoea ; racemes filiform longer than the leaves, pubescence scurfy. 

 Wynaad, Coorg, S. Canara. 



15. CAHAPA, Aubl. 



Glabrous littoral trees. Leaves 2- or 4- or sometimes 6-foliolate ; leaf- 

 lets opposite quite entire feebly nerved. Panicles lax, axillary, flowers 

 hermaphrodite. Calyx 4-fid, short. Petals 4, reflexed, contorted sinis- 

 trosely (as seen from within), titaminal ti&e urceplate-globose, 8-dentate 

 at apex, teeth bipartite ; anthers 8, 2-celled, just included, sessile at top 

 of tube, alternating with the teeth. Disk fleshy, cup-shaped, adherent to 

 the base of the ovary. Ovary 4-celled, 4-sulcate ; cells 2-8-ovuled ; style 

 short, stigma discoid. Fruit capsular, irregularly globose, large, 6-12- 

 seeded; pericarp fleshy dehiscing by 4 valves opposite the obliterated 



