Casearia.'] LXIII. SAMYDACE.E. (C. B. Clarke.) 595 



annot become very large. The pedicels are much longer in this species than in any 

 of the others ; and the pubescence of the leaves beneath differs from all except that 

 of C. grewicefolm. A Casearia collected by Griffith in fruit in Assam may be this, 

 but the pedicels are shorter, and some of the leaves nninded at the base, approaching 

 thus C. grajoiafolia. 



IMPERFECTLY KNOWN AND EXCLUDED SPECIES. 



C. ASTYLA, Turcz. in Bull. Soc. Imp.Mosc. 1863, 608; branchlets pubescent, leaves 

 glabrous, sterile stamens densely white-hirsute, style 0. 



EAST INDIES; Roxburgh (fide Turcz.}. 



Leaves lanceolate, somewhat long but obtusely acuminate, margin revolute entire, 

 shining, not punctate ; petiole short. Pedicels 3 or few. Calyx-tube top-shaped, con- 

 tracted in the middle, segments reflexed. A very distinct species in the structure of 

 its flowers, forming the type of a separate subgenus. Not seen ; the foregoing is 

 taken from Turczaninow. 



CASEARIA ? CORIACEA, Wall. Cat. 7196, is Cheetocarpus castanocarpus, Thwaites 

 Enum. 275. 



CASEARIA ? ACUMINATA, Wall. Cat. 7198, has opposite leaves and is remote from 

 the genus and order. , 



CASEARIA ?LUCIDA, Wall. Cat. 7199, is a Euphorbiaceous plant, possibly the male 

 of Wall. Cat. 7196. 



2. OSBXEZ.XA, Thwaites. 



Trees. Leaves alternate, petioled, ovate or oblong-lanceolate, entire or ob- 

 scurely serrate, epunctate ; stipules minute, deciduous. Flowers small, very 

 nearly sessile, in long racemes which are simple or panicled. Calyx inferior, 

 divided nearly to the base ; lobes 5, rounded, imbricate. Petals 0. Stamens 10 

 (or 8), 5 alternating with as many 2-lobed hairy scales and 5 inserted in the 

 notches of those scales. Ovary superior, 1-celled ; styles 3, short, with capi- 

 tellate stigmas; ovules few, placentas 3, parietal. Capsule subglobose, 3- 

 valved. Seeds few, subglobose, with red fleshy aril. DIST.KIB. Species 3 : 

 one in Ceylon, two in the Philippines. 



1. O. zeylanica, Thwaites Enum. 20; leaves glabrous narrow elliptic- 

 lanceolate acuminate nearly entire, panicle terminal. Benth. in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. v. Suppl 89 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 209. Casearia paniculata, Gardn. 



CEYLON; Gardner; Central Province, alt. 3000 ft., not common; Thwaites. 



Younger branches and panicle pubescent. Leaves 2-4 by 1-1^ in., narrowed at 

 the base; petiole | in. Panicle lax, racemes 4-6 in. Flowers -white tinged with red, 

 each supported by a single cup-shaped bract. Stamens 10. Ovary very hairy. Cap- 

 sule | in., coriaceous. Seeds 1-4, subglobose. 



3. HOXKAX.XUXK, Jacq. 



Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, crenate or subentire, petioled or sessile, 

 rarely punctulate. Flowers hairy, small, in slender axillary and sub-terminal 

 simple or panicled racemes ; bract at the base of the pedicel often prominent 

 but caducous. Calyx-tube funnel-shaped, adnate to the base of the ovary ; 

 lobes 5-7, narrow, persistent. Petals 5-7, inserted in the throat of the calyx, 

 linear-oblong, persistent. Disk tomentose. Stamens solitary or in fascicles of 

 1-7, opposite the petals with alternating glands. Ovary hall-superior, 1-celled ; 



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