Phaleria.] cxxx. THYMELJEACE^:. (J. D. Hooker.) 199 



9. PHALERIA, Jack. 



Trees. Leaves opposite. Flowers 2-sexual, in terminal or lateral sessile 

 heads ; bracts involucriform, leafy, deciduous. Perianth-tube elongate ; 

 lobes 4-6, spreading ; scales 0. Stamens 8-12, 2-seriate, exserted, filaments 

 filiform ; anthers small. Disk cupular or annulate. Ovary 2-celled ; style 

 filiform, stigma capitate. Drupe naked, succulent or fleshy, endocarp 

 coriaceous or hard, 1 -2-celled. Testa thin ; albumen 0. Species about 8, 

 Eastern Asiatic, Malayan and Australian. 



P. cauliflora, Benth. in Gen. PI. iii. 199 ; quite glabrous, leaves 

 6-9 in. shortly petioled oblong-lanceolate or oblanceolate caudate-acuminate 

 base acute, flowers in subsessile heads on the sides of the branches, perianth 

 glabrous, margins of lobes pubescent. Beddome For. Man. 180, t. 25, f. 5. 

 Drymispermum cauliflorum, Thwaites Enum. 251. 



CEYLON ; in the Pasdoon Corle, Thwaites. 



A small elegant tree, with long subpendulous branches. Leaves shining, green, 

 rather membranous, base acute ; nerves very slender, 8-10 pair, rather arched ; 

 petiole ^ in. Perianth f in. long, tube slender, lobes rounded. Fruit f in. long, 

 almost as broad, obliquely obovoid or_turgid, subacute, narrowed into a short stipes, 

 fleshy, red. 



10. GYRXNOPS, Gartn. 



Trees. Leaves alternate, shining. Flowers 2-sexual, in terminal sub- 

 panicled umbels, ebracteate. Perianth-tube slender ; lobes 5, spreading ; 

 scales above the stamens connate in a ring. Stamens 5 ; anthers subsessile, 

 connective very thick. Disk 0. Ovary long-stalked, 2-celled ; style subu- 

 late, stigma ovoid. Capsule stipitate, compressed, loculicidally 2-valved. 

 Seeds ovoid, with a long tail-like appendage, testa crustaceous, inner coat 

 thick, albumen 0. Species 2, a South Indian and Moluccan, 



C. Walla, Gcertn. Fruct. ii. 276, t. 140 ; glabrous except the silky 

 shoots and young foliage, leaves oblong or elliptic caudate-acuminate, nerves 

 very slender. Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 602; Hook. Ic. PI. t. 5; Wight 

 Ic. t. 1850; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 303. 



CEYLON, common in the warmer parts. 



A tree with slender branches and yellowish .foliage of a light brown when dry. 

 Leaves 2-3 in., very variable in breadth, base acute ; nerves mere striations, trans- 

 verse, very closely placed ; petiole very short. Umbels few-fld., very shortly peduncled. 

 Perianth f in. long; tube slender, acute at the base; lobes very short, rounded, 

 pubescent within. In Gsn. Plant, iii. 200, this is erroneously said to be a native of 

 the Indian Peninsula. 



11. AQUXX.ARXA, Lamk. 



Trees. Leaves alternate ; nerves slender, parallel. Flowers 2-sexual, in 

 axillary and terminal peduncled or subsessile umbellules, ebracteate. 

 Perianth campanulate ; lobes 5, broad, spreading ; scales above the stamens 

 5, hairy, connate .at the base. Stamens 10 ; anthers subsessile, oblong ; 

 connective broad. Disk 0. Ovary subsessile, villous, perfectly or imper- 

 fectly 2-celled ; stigma large, subsessile. Capsule compressed, oblanceolate 

 or obovate, loculicidal ; pericarp coriaceous or hard and woody. Seeds of 

 Gyrinops. Species 2 or 3, E. Asiatic, Malayan and Chinese. 



1. A. Ag-allocha, Roxb. Cat. 33, and FL Ind: ii. 422 ; nearly glabrous 



