22 FLORA OF MADRAS. \_Miiiusd. 



4. MILIUSA MONTANA, Gardn. ; Bedd. Ic. t. 84. M. indica, var. 

 montana, Hook, f . & Thorns. ; F. B. I. i. 86. 



Forests of the W. Ghats in Malabar, Nilgiris, Anamalais 

 and Tinnevelly, up to 4,500 ft. ; Cuddapah. 



5. MILIUSA NILAGIRICA, Bedd. Ic. t. 88 ; F. B. I. i. 87 ; King Ann. 

 Calc. iv. 156, t. 203A. 



Forests of the W. Ghats in the Wynaad, Nilgiris and 

 Anamalais, at about 5,000 ft. 



14. Saccopetalum, Benn. 



Trees. Leaves deciduous. Flowers axillary, solitary or fas- 

 cicled. Sepals 8, small, valvate. Petals 6, valvate, in 2 whorls ; 

 outer small, like the sepals ; inner much larger, erect or con- 

 niving, base saccate. Stamens indefinite ; anther-cells dorsal, 

 contiguous, not concealed by the connective, which is produced 

 into a conspicuous appendage. Ovaries indefinite ; ovules 6 or 

 more. Fruit a ring of subglobose carpels. 



SACCOPETALUM TOMENTOSUM, Hook. f. & Thorns. ; F. B. I. i. 88 ; 

 Bedd. Ic. t. 49, and Fl. t. 39 ; Eoxb. Cor. PL i. t. 35 ; King 

 Ann. Calc. iv. 159, t. 207. 



A large deciduous tree with twigs and under side of leaves 

 tomentose ; flowers in small leaf-opposed or terminal cymes, 

 on pedicels 23 in. long; carpels large, globose, stalked, 

 velvety brown. 



Forests of the N. Circars, especially with Sal (Brandis) ; 

 Hyderabad ; W. Ghats from S. Canara to Tinnevelly. Vern. 

 Ur. Gondapalasu ; Kan. Hessare. 



15. Alphonsea, Hook. f. & Thorns. 



Lofty or rarely small trees or occasionally erect or climbing 

 shrubs. Leaves thick, coriaceous, glabrous and shining. Flowers 

 small or middle-sized, in leaf -opposed rarely extra-axillary 

 peduncled fascicles. Calyx with 3 small valvate sepals or cupular 

 with 3 valvate teeth. Petals 6, valvate, in 2 whorls, larger than 

 the sepals, equal, or the inner rather smaller. Torus cylindric or 

 hemispheric. Stamens indefinite, loosely packed ; anthers dorsal, 

 contiguous, not concealed by the apiculate connective. Ovaries 

 1 or more ; style oblong or depressed or stigma sessile ; ovules 4-8 



