Qarallia.'] LYII. RHIZOPHOEE^:. (G. Henslqw.) 439 



5. CARALLIA, Roxb. 



Trees and shrubs. Leaves petiolate, ovate or elliptic. Peduncles short, rather 

 thick. Flowers small, in short 3-chotomous axillary branching cymes, sessile 

 and often crowded. Calyx-tube minutely bracteate at the base ; limb 5-8-lobed, 

 campanulate ; lobes erect, short, valvate. Petals 5-8, inserted on the margin of 

 a crenulated disk lining the calyx-tube, clawed, orbicular, 2-fid or entire, sub- 

 serrate or lacerate at the apex. Disk epigynous, 10-16-lobed. Stamens in- 

 serted with the petals, filaments filiform ; anthers small, oblong. Style subulate 

 or filiform. Fruit small, globose, coriaceous, 1-celled, 1-seeded. Seed globose- 

 reniform ; testa fibrous ; embryo curved. DISTKIB. Species about 7, natives of 

 the Indian Ocean. 



1. C. integ-errima, DC. Prodr. iii. 33 ; leaves quite entire or rarely 

 serrulate towards the apex obovate elliptic or oblong, flowers usually 8-merous 

 cymoso-capitate, petals not embracing the filaments. Wight III. t. 90 ; Benth. 

 in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 67 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. cxciii. ; Dalz. fy Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 

 95 ; Brand. For. Fl. 219. 0. ceylanica, corymbosa and sinensis, Arn. in Tayl. 

 Ann. Nat. Hist. i. 371. 0. lucida, Kurz For. Fl. Brit. Burm. i. 451 ; Wall. 

 Cat. 4880 ; Wight Ic. t. 605. 0. timorensis, Blume Mus. Bot. i. 128 (ex char.}. 

 0. octopetala, F. Muell. PI. Aust. Trop. Occid. G. symmetrica, Blume Mus. 

 Bot. i. 130. Pootia cereopsifolia, Miq. PI. Hochst. 



Forests of the outer 'SnociM HIMALAYA, BENGAL, ASSAM, SILHET, BURMAH, both 

 PENINSULAS and CEYLON. DISTRIB. Malay Archipelago, China, Australia. 



An evergreen tree with very lucid foliage. Flowers small, white. Berry globose, 

 size of a peppercorn, usually 1-seeded. The leaves vary excessively. The Cingalese spe- 

 cimens are often all obovate and very obtuse ; in some Chinese and Philippine Islands 

 ones they are narrow-oblong and acuminate, in the majority from the greater part of 

 the area, viz., Ceylon and the Indian Peninsulas, China, the Indian Archipelago and 

 N. W. Australia, they are elliptic-ovatev Bentham (Journ. Linn. Soc. 1. c.) has shown 

 good cause for setting aside Koxburgh's specific name of C. lucida. 



2. C. lance ae folia, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 481 ; leaves elliptic or oblong regu- 

 larly serrulate, flowers 6-8-merous subcapitate, petals embracing the filaments. 

 Wight Ic. iii. t. 604 ; Kurz For. Fl. Brit. Burm. i. 437 ; Wight Ic. t. 604. 

 C. confinis, Blume Mus. Bot. i. 129. 0. lucida, Roxb. Cor. PI. iii. t. 211 ; Wight 

 Ic. iii. t. 605. 0. lanceolaria, Wall. Cat. 4881. 



Tropical forests of TENASSERIM, Kurz. DISTRIB. Sumatra. 



Cymes less crowded than in the last species. Petals reniform, crenulate. Fruit 

 larger than the preceding, turbinato-globose, 2-3-seeded. 



3. C. calycina, Thwaites Enum. 121 ; leaves ovate or elliptical quite 

 entire, peduncles rather long dichotomous, cymes slightly branching above the 

 middle. 



CEYLON, Singh Eajah forest, between Galle and Katnapoora, at no great elevation, 

 Thwaites. 



A great tree. Leaves l-3 by 1-1 1 in., ovate, shortly acuminate, narrowed at the 



3, punctate beneath ; petiole ~-\ in. ; stipules about in. very deciduous. Brac- 

 teoles rounded, retuse, often mucronate, about ^ in. Flowtrs subsessile, \ in. diam. 

 Calyx-lobes 4, equalling the tube. Petals broadly cordate, clawed, margin inciso- 

 sinuate. Ovary 4-celled ; stigma crenate. 



VAR. 0. Thwaites 1. c. ; leaves shorter more rounded and coriaceous. Central Pro- 

 vince, alt. 4-5000 ft., Thwaites. 



