616 XLI. CELASTRINE2E. (M. A. Lawson.) [Lophopctalum. 



6. Xi. floribundum, Wight III. i. 178 ; leaves 3|-6 by 1-2 in. oblong- 

 elliptic, cymes 6-8 in. puberulous, disk naked 5-angled, petals naked. 



TENASSERIM, at Mergui, Griffith. 



" A tree ; quite glabrous with the exception of the inflorescence. Leaves acute, coria- 

 ceous ; petiole ^-4 in. Flowers in diffuse divaricating cymes. Petals -^ in., ovate- 

 orbicular. 



SECT. III. Petals and disk naked. Disk cupular with a free margin. 



7. Xi. filiforme, Laws. ; branches very slender almost filiform, leaves 

 3 by 1^ in. oblong-lanceolate subacuminate with crisped margins mem- 

 branous, petals in. 



TENASSERIM, at Mergui, Griffith. 



Whole plant quite glabrous. Cymes axillary, very slender, shorter than the leaves, 

 subpaniculate. Flowers shortly pedicellate. Petals ovate, roundel at tlx> apex. 

 Fruit? A very distinct species readily distinguished from the rest by its very slender 

 branches and crisped leaves. 



8. X. refiexum, Laws.; branches short, leaves 2|-3 by ?-!} in. 

 ovate-lanceolate acuminate withreflexed tips coriaceous margins flat, flowers 

 very small. 



MALACCA, Maingay. 



Whole plant quite glabrous. Lcarcx minutely pellucidly punctate. Floicn'* in 



'\aricatiiig paniculate cynics longer than tlie leaves, shortly pedicellate, yellow. 

 Fruit? The description of the (lowers is taken tVom Maingay's mss. 



9. Xi. dubium, Laws. ; branches stout coarse, leaves 3 by \ 

 elliptic acute at both ends with a reflexed tip coriaceous margins flat, 

 petals in, 



MALACCA, Maingay. 



A tree ; whole plant quite glabrous. Flowers in stmitish erect spicate axillary 

 cymes, shorter than the leaves, almost sessile. Petals subtriangular. F/ 



5. K.OK.OONA, Thwaites. 



Branching trees with yellow or pale-coloured bark. Leaves opposite, 

 petioled, coriaceous. Calyx small, 5-lobed. Petals 5, coriaceous, with 

 glandular dots. Stamens 5, inserted into the margin of the disk ; anthers 

 oblong. JJixk thick, glandular, obscurely angled. Ovary immersed in the 

 disk, 3-celled ; style short, stigma 3-lobed ; ovules 4 in each cell, in 

 2 series, adnate to the axis, ascending. Capsule woody, oblong, 3-gonous, 

 3-celled, 3-valved ; cells 4-seeded. Seeds broadly winged above, imbricate, 

 exalbuminous. DISTEIB. Species 3. Ceylon, Malayan Peninsula, and 

 Borneo. 



A genus perhaps too closely allied to Lophopetalum to be kept separate when the 

 fruit of more of the species of the latter genus is known. 



1. K. zeylanica, Thwaites in Hook Kew Journ. Sot. v. 380, t. 6 ; Enum. 

 52 ; leaves crenate or serrate, petals naked brown with numerous minute 

 dark red glandular dots, fruit oblong. Beddome Fl. Sylv. t. 146 ; Fl. 

 Sylv. Anal. Gen. Ixv. 



WESTERN PENINSULA; Amamallay hills, Bcddome; CEYLON; banks of streams in 

 the Ambagamowa and Suffragam districts, alt. 2-4000 ft. 



Leaves on young plants 6-8 in., oblong-lanceolate, subacuminate, serrate ; on adult 

 trees 2 4-3 4 in., elliptic or obovate, crenate, rounded at the apex or emargiuate, durk- 



