150 cxxvm. LAURINE/E. (J. D. Hodker.) '[Aciinodaplme. 



fewer, longer pedicelled, umbels sessile or subracemose on a short peduncle. Fila- 

 ments woolly. Fruit g- in. long ; perianth-cup as broad, thick ; pedicel very stout, 

 f-1 in. long. Habit of A. Janata, but distinguished from all its Peninsular allies by 

 the broad leaves ending in long points. It may, however, be a form of angustifolia, 

 in which case madraspatana and lanata may be varieties of it. It is erroneously 

 placed in the section Notholitscea in the Prodromus. 



C. Species of Ceylon. 



10. A. molochina, Nees 'Syst. ILaurin. 603 (excl. var. y.) ; leaves 1-3 

 in. whorled penninerved rigidly coriaceous elliptic obovate or cuneate- 

 obovate obtuse shining above, beneath tomentose glabrous or glaucous, fern, 

 fl. in simple clusters shortly pedicelled, fruit globose seated on the 6-fid 

 .perianth -tube. Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 211 ; Thwaites Enum. 257 ; 



Wight Ic. t. 1843 ; Beddome For. Man. 186. 



CEYLON; Central'Province, alt. 6-8000 ft.j Walker, &c. 



A small tree, branches rather stout glabrous or scurfily tomentose. Leaves rarely orbi- 

 cular, shining above, hard; nerves 4-6 pair, very pi-ominent beneath, variable and some- 

 times triple-nerved on the same branch with the penninerved; petiole short, stout, rarely 

 ^ in. Bracts 9, outer smaller, 6-flowered. Flowers silky without, glabrous within ; 

 pedicel in., stout. Style glabrous. Fruit "about ^ in. diam." (Thwaites), seated 

 on the scarcely enlarged perianth. Meissner has two varieties, but their characters 

 are found on the same branch, and many more as good might be made of this most 

 variable species, the extremes of which would but for intermediates be regarded as 

 distinct species. 



Var. Moonii ; leaves ovate or elliptic-lanceolate obtusely acuminate. A. Moonii, 

 Thwaites Enum. 256 (not of Meissner). Ceylon, alt. 5-7000 ft., Moon, Sir G. 

 McKenzie. Meissner, misled by a misplaced ticket of Thwaites, took a glabrous leaved 

 form of molochina for this. The only specimens are very bad. 



11. A. stenophylla, Thivaites Enum. 256; leaves 2-5 in. whorled 

 penninerved coriaceous linear-oblong or -lanceolate obtuse quite glabrous 

 glaucous beneath, nerves 10-15 pair, fern. fl. in simple clusters shortly 

 pedicelled, fruit globose seated on the entire cup-shaped perianth-tube. 

 Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1. 212 ; Beddome For. Man. 186. A. Thwaitesii, 

 Meissn. I. c. 



CEYLON ; in the Oova and Badulla districts, ascending to 3000 ft. 

 A tree, 20-30 ft. ; branchlets glabrous or rusty-pubescent. Leaves 4-8 in a whorl, 

 {-\ in. broad, hardly shining above, midrib beneath stout, nerves usually very regular 

 and slender ; petiole -3- in. Bracts subsilky and ciliate. Flowers many, in rounded 

 clusters ^ in. diam., fulvous silky. Perianth-lobes wholly deciduous. Style villous. 

 Fruit ^ in. diam., black, pedicel ^-J in. Small forms with leaves 1J by in. look 

 very different, but are united by intermediates with the larger leaved. 



12. A. eleg ans, Thwaites Enum. 256 ; leaves 2-4 in. whorled penni- 

 nerved thinly coriaceous lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate caudate-acuminate 

 quite glabrous glaucous beneath, nerves 8-10 pairs very faint, fern. fl. 

 in simple clusters very shortly pedicelled, fruit globose seated on the entire 

 cup-shaped perianth-tube. Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. 1, 212; Beddome 

 For. Man. 186. 



CEYLON ; Central Province and Pasdoon Corle, ascending to 3000 ft., Thwaites. 



A small tree ; branches slender. Leaves 4-6 in a whorl, nerves very finely reticu- 

 lated above almost evanescent, capillary beneath; petiole very slender, - in. 

 Flowers in subsolitary clusters, rusty-tomentose, ^ in. diam. Perianth-lobes wholly 

 deciduous. Filaments villous. Fruit nearly in. diam. ; pedicel | in. 



13. A. glauca, Nees Syst. Laurin. 599 ; leaves 2-4 in. whorled peuni- 



