Cornus.'] LXXII. CORNACE^E. (C. B. Clarke.) . 745 



VAB. Griffithii ; leaves beneath with spreading hairs. Bhotan ; Griffith, No. 

 2091. 



SECT. II. Benthamia, Lindl. (gen.) Floivers connate in dense heads 

 subtended by 4 large white tracts. 



4. C. capitata, Wall, in Roxb. Fl Ind. ed. Carey $ Walt. i. 434; 

 leaves oblong or elliptic adult closely covered above with minute hairs, calyx- 

 teeth distinct reflexed. Don Prodr/141 ; Wall. Cat. 467, PI. As. Rar. t. 214; 

 Brand. For. Fl. 253. Benthamia fragifera, Lindl. in Sot. Reg. t. 1579 ; Wight 

 III. t. 122. 



From KIILU and KUMAON to BHOTAN, alt. 4000-7000 ft., not rare. 



A small tree, the tender parts densely clothed with minute bicnspidate hairs. 

 Leaves 3 by J^in., narrowed at both ends, hardly acuminate. Heads hemispherical, 

 |- in. wide ; bracts 1 by |- in. Fruiting heads depressed, globose, 1 in. wide, suc- 

 culent, of numerous coalesced pericarps; endocarp about in., bony, ellipsoid or ob- 

 ovoid, compressed; calyces spreading on all sides from the young fruit heads, 

 ultimately deciduous. 



VAR. khasiana; adult leaves glabrous or very nearly so. Khasia, alt. 5000- 

 6000 ft., Kalapani ; H. f. $ T. This variety approaches C. japonica, Thunb. which 

 is closely allied but has the calyx-limb subtruncate. 



4. MASTIXXA, Blume. 



Trees, young parts more or less pubescent. Leaves alternate or opposite, 

 petioled, entire. Flowers hermaphrodite, 2-bracteolate, small, in terminal many- 

 flowered panicles ; bracts small or lengthened, pedicels short or 0, jointed under 

 the flower. Calyx-tube campanulate, pubescent or silky ; limb 5-4-toothed. 

 Petals 5-4, ovate, leathery, valvate, silky. Stamens 5-4 ; anthers cordate-ob- 

 long. Ovary 1-celled ; disc fleshy ; style cylindric, simple ; ovule 1, pendulous 

 from one side of the cell very near its summit. Drupe ellipsoid or ovoid, 

 crowned by the calyx-teeth or a scar ; putamen grooved down one face ; endo- 

 carp protruded inwards down one side. Seed ellipsoid ; albumen fleshy ; 

 embryo small, radicle elongate, cotyledons thin, elliptic. DISTRIB. Species 8 ; 

 S. India and Malaja. 



* Leaves all alternate. 



t Bracts about in., acute. 



1. M. tetrandra, C. B. Clarke ; bracts caducous, calyx- teeth in the 

 bud shortly triangular, stamens usually 4. Bursinopetalum tetrandrum, Wight 

 ms. ; Thicaites JEnum. 42. 



CEYLON; Thwaites. 



A large tree, foliage heavy green. Leaves 3^ by 1^- in., elliptic or obovate-oblong, 

 suddenly obtusely acuminate, narrowed at the base, glabrous, drying green ; petiole 

 15 | in., minutely pubescent when young. Panicle 2-3 in. diam., branches and calyx- 

 tube with close fulvous pubescence. Calyx-teeth rarely 5. Style ~ in. Fruit 1 by 

 | in., almost cylindric, or f by ^ in. ellipsoid. 



VAB. Thwaitesii ; leaves If" by ^-f in. obtuse turning black in drying, panicle 

 and petals glabrous. Ceylon ; Thwaites. Very different in general appearance from 

 M. tetrandra, but Mr. Thwaites regards it as a variety. 



2. X&. arborea, C. B. Clarke; bracts acute persistent till after the 

 petals drop, calyx-teeth in the bud triangular-lanceolate, stamens 5. Bursino- 



