Sdcropyrum.'] cxxxm. SANTALACEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) 235 



cending to 5000 ft. in Coorg. CEYLON, in the Central Province, alt. 4-6000 ft., 

 Walker, &c. 



Branches very stout and woody, bark pale. Leaves 3-6 in., penninerved, and 

 3-nerved at the base, which is sometimes cordate ; petiole ^ in. Racemes 1-2 in. long, 

 the rachis and peduncle stout, of female thickening much after flowering; bracts 

 minute ; flowers reddish. Perianth -^ in. diam,; segments ovate, subacute, distinctly 

 imbricate, with one outer, all with a tuft of hairs behind the stamens. Fruit 1 in. 

 long including the very stout pedicel, crowned with the persistent perianth. Wight 

 figures the leaves as sometimes cordate, upon which A. De Candolle founds his var. 

 Bertii, quoting under it "S. Wallichianum, Bertie in Wight Ic. t. 241 ;" but Wight 

 quotes Aruott as the author both of the genus and species, and I do not find any 

 reference to the name Bertie in Wight or elsewhere. I have referred with doubt 

 Bullion's Champereia Perrottetiana to this plant, of which it may be an unarmed 

 flowering specimen with an occasionally 4-merous flower. 



2. S. Itfaingrayi, HooJc.f. ; unarmed (always ?) glabrous, except the 

 finely tomentose inflorescence, leaves oblong or ovate obtuse, perianth -lobes 

 valvate. P Pyrularia moschifera, A. DC.; Benth. in Gen. Plant, iii. 228. 



MALACCA ; Maingay. 



" A medium-sized tree," Maingay, resembling S. Wallichianum in habit and foliage, 

 but the branches are unarmed, the flowers smaller, and the perianth -segments strongly 

 valvate. Bentham in Gen. Plant, refers this doubtfully to Sphcerocarya moschifera, 

 Blume Mus. Bot. i. 245 (Pyrularia moschifera, A. DC.), a plant I have not seen, but 

 which is described as having leaves acuminate and pubescent beneath, and in which 

 the stamens are not described as bifid. P. moschifera is more probably a true 

 Sphcerocarya. I have seen no fern. fl. or fruit of Maingay's plant. 



DOUBTFUL AND EXCLUDED SPECIES. 



SPH^EEOCAEYA LEPEOSA, Dalzell, is Strombosia ceylanica ; see Vol. I. 579. 



7. FHACELLARIA, Bentli. 



Small leafless parasitic shrubs, stems fascicled. Flowers minute, scat- 

 tered on the branches, solitary or fascicled, sessile or sunk in the branch, 

 ebracteate, monoecious. Perianth-tube of male solid, of fern, adnate to the 

 ovary ; lobes 4-8, short, valvate. Stamens 4> or 5, inserted on the bases of 

 the lobes, filament short thick ; anther-cells diverging below. Disk flat. 

 Ovary inferior ; style short, stout, stigma entire or 3-lobed ; ovules 3, pen- 

 dulous from and appressed to the top of a conical central column. Fruit 

 unknown. Species 3, Indian. 



The species of this genus should be described from spec imens in a living state, or 

 preserved in spirits. 



1. P. rigidula, BentJi. in Gen. Plant. Hi. 229; quite glabrous, stems 

 rigid terete crowded in a tuft oh a small stock simple or sparingly branched, 

 perianth 4-5-cleft. 



TENASSEEIM ; at Mergui, parasitic on a Loranthus, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 

 2745). 



Stems 4-6 inches long, strict, rather slender; branches alternate, ascending, 

 short. Floivers scattered along the branches, T ' s in. diam. ; males subglobose, lobes 

 broadly triangular ; females with a longer tube. 



2. P. compressa, Benth. in Gen. Plant, iii. 229 ; stems very stout 

 scaberulously puberulous quite simple, perianth 5-8-cleft. 



TENASSEKIM ; at Moulmein, Parish. 



Stems fewer from the stock than in P. rif/idula, and quite simple, much stouter, 

 flowering almost from the base, when dry | in. diaiu., described by Boutham as com. 



