574 LXI. LYTHEACEJE. (C. B. Clarke.) \_Crypteronia. 



top of the calyx-tube. Ovary free, globose, 2-celled ; style long, stigma capitate 

 sub-2-fid ; ovules many, placentas axile. Capsule '2-celled,, globose, pubescent, 

 crowned by the persistent style, dehiscent at- the vertex across the dissepiment 

 so as to divide the style ; fruit-pedicel deflexed. Seeds many, long-ellipsoid, 

 testa produced at each end. DISTRIB. Species 5 extending from Eastern Ben- 

 gal to the Philippines. The branches appear all functionally dioecious : those 

 that perfect seed have all the stamens with short filaments : those that have 

 stamens with long filaments have an ovary and style but set no seed. 



1. C. pubescens, Blume Mus. Hot. ii. 123 ; leaves pubescent beneath, 

 calyx-teeth short triangular, ripe capsule ~ in. broad. Henslovia pubesceus, 

 Wall Cat. 4904, and PI As. Ear. iii. 14, t. 221 ; Miq. Fl. 2nd. Sat. i. pt. i. 716. 

 H. pubescens together with the pubescent portion of H. affinis, Planch, in Hook. 

 Lond. Journ. Sot. iv. 477, t. xvi. B. 



KANGOON; McClelland. MERGTTI ; Griffith, No. 2512-2 (marked H. affinis by 

 Planchon}. PINANG. 



Tree 30 ft. (attaining 80 ft. fide Kurz); branchlets nearly glabrous. Leaves 

 3-4g in., from broad-elliptic to lanceolate, narrowed at both ends ; pubescence beneath 

 yellowish or brownish. Panicles pubescent ; pedicels scarcely in. Calyx very 

 small, in fruit being quite flat, not at all cup-shaped. Capsule in H. pubescens Wall. 

 exactly the same size as in H. affinis Planch. : in both the fruits are sometimes barren 

 and twice the normal size, probably from the attack of an insect. 



VAR. Hookeri ; leaves glabrous beneath, panicle pubescent or rarely glabrous. C. 

 paniculata, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 86; For. Fl. i. 519, not of Blumc. 

 Henslowia Hookeri, Wall. Cat. 8566. H. affinis, as to the glabrous portion, Planch, in 

 Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. iv. 477. H. pubescens, Griff. Notul. iv. 404 and Ic. PL 

 Asiat. t. 564, fig. ii. Amherst and Tavoy; Wallich. Mergui ; Griffith and Heifer 

 (No. 2512 Kew Distrib.). Malaya; Maingay No. 650-2. Henslovia, leptostachys, 

 Planch, (with which H. paniculata; Miq. coincides) differs by the smaller flowers 

 much more remotely placed on more slender racemes. From Kurz's description 

 (glabrous leaves) it seems that his C. paniculata exactly coincides with Wallich's 

 H. Hookeri, and does not include (as Mr. Kurz supposes it does) the plant of Griffith. 

 C. pubescens and C. glabra may possibly be united under C. paniculata, Blume, but 

 C. Griffithii is distinct. 



2. C. glabra, Slume Mus. Sot. ii. 123 ; leaves glabrous beneath, calyx in 

 fruit somewhat cup-shaped with triangular-lanceolate suberect teeth, capsule 



in. broad. Henslovia glabra, Wall, Cat. 4093 ; Planch, in Hook. Lond. Journ. 

 ot. iv. 478 ; Miq. FL 2nd. Bat. i. pt. i. 716. 



KHASIA MTS., alt. 1000-3000 ft.; Wallich; H. f. $ T. CHITTAGONG, alt. 1000 

 ft.; H.f. # T. DISTRTB. Philippines. 



An erect tree, 50-60 ft. Leaves lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, narrowed at both 

 ends, membranous, nerves prominently raised beneath but slender. Pamc/e-branches 

 glabrous or minutely pubescent ; pedicels ^ in. 



3. C. G-riffithii, C. B. Clarke ; leaves glabrous very coriaceous, panicles 

 and calyx covered with rusty red pubescence, pedicels i in., calyx of male 

 flower | in. broad with lanceolate erect teeth. Hensloviee sp. Griff. Notul. iv. 

 406, and Ic. PL Asiat. t. 564, fig. i. 



MALACCA; Griffith No. 2513. MALAYA; Maingay. 



Leaves 5-7 in., elliptic-lanceolate, the nerves raised beneath and thick. This is 

 very near C. Cumingii, Planch, of the Philippines, and may be a variety of it. C. 

 Cumingii has a grey pubescence on the panicle, the pedicels are ^ in. or more, the 

 calyx is smaller. 



