Erythropalum.] xxxix. OLACINE^:. (Maxwell T. Masters.) 5?9 



ovules 3, pendulous, anatropal. Fruit 1 in., ovoid-oblong, surmounted by the remains 

 of the disk, epicarp fleshy whitish; mesocarp somewhat bony, brownish; endocarp 

 whitish, spongy. Seed solitary, large, pendulous, ovoid, acute below, without coat 

 or distinction of parts except a trace of a radicle (Griffith). The structure of the seed 

 requires further investigation. Materials are wanting for this purpose. 



6. STROBXBOSXA, Blume. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, petioled, simple, 1 -nerved. Inflorescence 

 cymose, cymes short. Flowers regular, hermaphrodite, dichlamydeous. 

 Calyx cup-shaped, more or less 5-lobed, inferior, or partly superior. Petals 

 5, free, hairy within. Stamens 5, opposite the petals and adnate to their 

 base ; anthers 2-celled, introrse. titaminodes 0. Ovary wholly superior, or 

 partly inferior, imperfectly 4-5-celled, surrounded by a perigynous 5-lobed 

 disk ; style simple ; ovules 4-5, pendulous from a central placenta. Fruit 

 drupaceous, surmounted by the remains of the calyx-lobes and of the style ; 

 stone crustaceous. Seed pendulous, embryo minute within fleshy albumen. 

 DISTRIB. Species 6, natives of the Western peninsula, Ceylon and the 

 Archipelago. In the Indian species I find the flowers cleistogamous. 



SECT. 1. Eustrombosia. Ovary free. 



1. S. javanica, Blume Bijdr. 1154; Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. i. 251 c. ic. ; 



leaves oblong acuminate entire, base rounded, calyx obscurely 5-lobed. 

 Miq. Fl. 2nd. Bat. i. 787. 



EASTERN PENINSULA ; TEXASSERIM, Heifer ; Penang, Wallich ; Malacca, Maingay. 



A lofty tree with hard white wood. Branches terete, purplish, glabrous. Leaves 

 6-7 by 3 in., coriaceous, glabrous; petiole 4~f i Q . Flower-bud ellipsoid. Flowers 

 ly- 1 in., greenish, in short axillary cymes, which scarcely exceed the petiole. Calyx 

 shallow, free, but accrescent and adherent to the fruit. Petals 5, much exceeding the 

 sepals, oblong, coriaceous, slightly hairy within near the revolute tip. Stamens 5, 

 ^ shorter than the petals. Ovary conical, style short. Fruit drupaceous, turbinate, 

 substipitate, by abortion 1-seeded. Although the ovary of this species is free, the fruit 

 is adherent (Blume confirmed by Baillon). 



SECT. 2. Lavallea (Baitton, genus). Ovary more or less adherent to the 

 calyx-tube. 



2. S. ceylanica, Gardn. in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. vi. 350; leaves 

 inequilateral oblong-lanceolate acuminate entire, calyx 5-fid. Miq. Ft. I n<1. 

 Bnt, i. pt. i. 787 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 137. Strombosia javanica, Thwi',; * 

 Eiium. 42, not of Blume. Spheerocarya leprosa, Dah. in Hook. KewJomit. 

 iii. 34 ; Dah. & Gibs. Bomb. FL 223. Lavallea ceylanica, Baill. Adansorria, ii. 

 361. 



WESTERN PENINSULA ; in the Concan and Canara. CEYLON, in forests of the Central 

 province, alt. 3000 ft. 



A tree or shrub with greyish bark. Leaves 6 by 2\ in., glabrous, coriaceous, base 

 rounded or somewhat tapering; petiole | in. Flower J>vd& oblong-davate. Flowers 

 -jV YQ in., Biibseesile, in axillary glomerules, or on a thick spur. Calyx-lobes rounded, 

 ciliate. Petals 3 times longer than the calyx-lobes, acute, hairy within, tips ultimately 

 renVxed. Ovary 4-5-celled below, ovules 5. Fruit 1 in., pvriform, rugose, ikvp purple, 

 apiculate, scaly, tuberculate when ripe. The species varies in stature and in the form 

 of the leaf. The Cingalese forms have often more oblique leaves than those from the 

 Peninsula. 



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