Weihea.'] LVII. EHIZOPHOEE^:. (Gr. Henslow.) 441 



longer than the sepals. Stamens 16-30, inserted on the margin of the disk ; 

 filaments filiform ; anthers oblong. Ovary superior, 3-5-furrowed, 2-4-celled ; 

 style filiform, stigma with 2-4 radiating lobes ; ovules 2 in each cell, collateral, 

 pendulous. Fruit globose, fleshy, 2-4-celled, septicidally but slowly dehiscing 

 into 2-4 valves ; cells 1-2-seeded. Seeds arillate, ovoid, subtrigonal, testa cori- 

 aceous ; embryo straight, cotyledons elliptical, radicle terete. DISTKIB. Species 

 5, natives of S. and Trop. Africa, Madagascar and Ceylon. 



1. W. ceylanica, Baill. Adans. iii. 38. Anstrutheria zeylanica, Gard. 

 in Cole. Journ. Nat. Hist. vi. 344, t. 4 ; Thivaites Enum. 121 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 

 t. cxciv. 



MAISOB and CARNATIC, Wight, &c. CEYLON, Galle District, Trincomalee, &c., at 

 no great elevation. 



A very much branched shrub or small tree. Branches terete. Leaves 3-3 by 

 l in., petioled, glabrous, acuminate, rounded at the base, green and shining above, 

 pale beneath, nerves reticulate prominent on both surfaces ; petiole about ^ in. Pe- 

 duncles solitary or in pairs, shorter than the petioles. Flower-buds of full size six 

 months before opening. Calyx-limb 4-fid ; segments ovate, acute, persistent, densely 

 covered with adpressed hairs, valvate. Petals 4, hypogynous, cuneate, imbricated in 

 bud. Stamens about 30, hypogynous ; anthers erect, cordate, obtuse. Ovary supe- 

 rior. 3-celled ; style simple, persistent. Berry thick, spongy. Embryo in the axis of 

 fleshy albumen ; cotyledons flat, veined ; radicle thick, elongated and directed upwards. 



9. BLEFHARXSTEIKXKA, Wall. 



A shrub ? Leaves opposite, petioled, membranous, elliptic-oblong, acuminate, 

 crenately-toothed ; stipules small, caducous. Floivers in 2-3-chotomous many- 

 flowered axillary cvmes, polygamo-dicecious. Calyx-tube ovoid, ebracteolate ; 

 lobes 4, minute, triangular, erect. Petals 4, twice the length of the calyx, in- 

 serted round a disk at the base of the calyx-tube, clawed ; tips lacerate. Disk 

 free ; of the male, 8-toothed ; of the female often cleft. Stamens 8, inserted 

 upon the margin of the disk ; in the female small, filaments ciliated ; anthers 

 small, oblong. Ovary obtusely subtrigonal, contracted at the base, ovoid, free, 

 3-celled ; cells 2-ovuled ; style of the female flower longer than the calyx, 

 stigma obsoletely 3-lobed. Fruit unknown. 



1. B. corymbosum, Wall. Cat. 6320 ; BentTi. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 

 78 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. Anal. Gen. PL xiv. fig. 2. Dryptopetaluni raembranaceum, 

 Miq. in PI. Hohenack. n. 713. 



WESTEBN PENINSULA, Heyne, &o. 



Glabrous, excepting the inflorescence and buds. Leaves l|-2 in. ; stipules lan- 

 ceolate, membranous, pubescent. Calyx minutely roughened above. Stamens ciliated 

 like the claws of the petals. Disk almost entirely free from the calyx. Ovary nar- 

 row, empty ; style short. Petals in the female flowers, shorter. Stamens less ; anthers 

 small, effete ? Disk smaller. Style longer than the calyx. 



10. ANISOFHYLLEA, Br. 



Trees and shrubs, glabrous, young parts silky. Leaves exstipulate, dis- 

 tichous ; alternate ones smaller or minute, and often stipuliform or ?, oblique, 

 ovate lanceolate or elliptic, with 3-5 main nerves branching from the base, 

 quite entire. Floivers minute in axillary simple or fascicled spikes, ebracteate or 

 minutely bracteolate bi- or unisexual. Calyx-tube ovoid, adnate to the ovary, 

 terete or ribbed ; limb 4-fid, lobes erect. Petals 4, small, involute, entire, lobed 

 or lacerate. Statnens 8, filaments short, subulate ; anthers small, didymous, pro- 



