318 LI. EOSACE53. (J. D. Hooker.) \_Maddenia. 



carpels, of which both often ripen, from Pygeum in the form of the fruit habit, and 

 deciduous foliage, and from Prunus in the flower which is altogether that of Pygeutu 

 except for the carpels. 



1. UK. himalaica, Hook.f. $ Thorns, in Hook. KewJourn, Bot. vi. 1854) 

 380, t. xii. ; racemes tomentose snort dense-flowered. 



Temperate Eastern Himalaya; SIKKIM, Lachen Eiver, alt. 8-1000 ft. BHOTAN, 

 Griffith. 



A small tree, 20-30 ft. ; bark of branches red brown, shining. Leaves 3-5 in., 

 variable in shape, ovate or obovate-lanceolate caudate-acuminate, rather membran- 

 ous, densely woolly or glabrate beneath, base acute rounded or cordate, cilia of the 

 margin often gland-tipped especially at the base of the leaf; nerves 15-20 pair, ob- 

 lique and nearly straight ; petiole very short indeed ; stipules large, linear-lanceo- 

 late, membranous, acuminate, gland-serrate. Racemes terminal, 1-3 in., dense-flowered. 

 Flowers 8-20, white, shortly pedicelled. Calyx-tube turbinate ; lobes obtuse and 

 petals together 10, the latter minute unequal linear-oblong. Stamens 20-30. Car- 

 pels 1 or 2, fusiform, quite glabrous, tapering into short or long styles with discoid 

 stigmas. Drupe % in., broadly ovoid ; epicarp thin ; stone thickly crustaceous, quite 

 smooth. 



2. M. pedicellata, Hook. f. ; flowers subcorymbose on long slender 

 pedicels on a short peduncle. 



MISHMI HILLS, Griffith. 



I have very imperfect scraps of this curious species, in unripe fruit only, the pe- 

 dicels are 2 in. long and each flower has the unripe oblong-carpels in. long. 



5. FYGEUBX, Gcertn. 



Evergreens trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, persistent, usually quite entire ; 

 stipules minute, fugacious, basal glands 2 or 0. Flowers small, racemose, some- 

 times unisexual by want of the ovary. Calyx-tube obconic urceolate or campanu- 

 late, deciduous ; limb 5-15-toothed, often unequally. Petals minute, 6-6 in the 

 5 -6-toothed calyx, in the 10-15-toothed, villous or tomentose rarely glabrous, 

 often undistinguishable from the calyx-lobes. Stamens 10-50, in one or 

 more series at the orifice of the calyx-tube, filaments slender incurved ; anthers 

 small. Carpel 1, basal in the calyx-tube, ovoid or subglobose ; style terminal, 

 slender, exserted from the bud, stigma capitate ; ovules 2, collateral, pendu- 

 lous. Fruit a transversely oblong obscurely didymous rarely subglobose drupe, 

 pericarp thin, dry or juicy. Cotyledons very thick, hemispheric ; radicle minute, 

 superior. DISTEIB. Species about 20, Tropical Asiatic and one African. 



Differs from Prunus chiefly in the minute villous petals (when present) and form 

 of the fruit. The often conspicuous basal pair of glands on the leaf are very variable, 

 a few species have scattered glands, and one has bullate glands on the tip of the pe- 

 tiole, formed by a prolongation of the leaf-blade. 



* Ovary*glabrous or nearly so. 



1. P. acuminatum, Coleb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xii. 360, 1. 18 5 leaves 

 oblong-lanceolate caudate-acuminate quite glabrous, basal glands 0, racemes 

 slender villous, petals 6 villous. Kurz, For. Flor. Brit. Burm. i. 435. Chryso- 

 balaneus, Wall Cat. 7496. 



Eastern Bengal ; KHASIA MTS., Colebrooke, Wallich. CHTTTAGONG, Kurz. 



A tree. Leaves 4-6 by 1^-3 in ; nerves spreading: petiole - in. Racemes almost 

 equalling the leaves, suberect, 4-angled ; pedicels slender. Flowers yellow-green, in- 

 odorous. Calyx campanulate, acutely 6-toothed. Petals 6, clawed, ovate, villous. 

 Stamens 30-40. Ovary glabrous ; style very slender, exserted. Drupe 1 in. trans- 

 versely, dark-purple. 



