Xantlwphyllum.\ CARYOPHYLLACEAE. 59 



W. Ghats from Nilgiris to Travancore, about 4,000 to 

 5,000 ft. 



10. POLYGALA ERIOPTERA, DC. ; F. B. I. i. 203. P. Valiliana, 

 DC.; W. & A. 36. P. triflora, W. & A. 37 (Linn. ?). 



Dry parts of the N. Circars in Vizagapatam and Godavari ; 

 dry Deccan and Carnatic Districts from the Kistna river 

 southwards. 



11. POLYGALA TELEPHIOIDES, Willd. ; F. B. I. i. 205 ; W. & A. 36. 



Carnatic, in Nellore and Chingleput ; Travancore. 



12. POLYGALA WIGHTIANA, Wall. ; W. & A. 38. 



W. Carnatic, in Coimbatore and Madura. 



3. Xanthophyllum, Eoxb. 



Large trees. Leaves large coriaceous, often yellowish green. 

 Sepals subequal, 5. Petals 4-5, nearly equal, the lower one 

 keeled, not crested. Stamens 8, 2 hypogynous, the remainder 

 adnate to the base of the petals. Ovary 1-celled, stipitate ; ovules 

 4-16, various in insertion and direction. Fruit 1-celled, indehiscent, 

 1-seeded. Seeds exalbuminous, estrophiolate. 

 XANTHOPHYLLUM FLAVESCENS, Eoxb. Cor. PL iii. t. 248 ; F. B. I. 

 i. 209 ; W. & A. 39. 



A large timber tree with stout oblong-lanceolate leaves and 



finely tomentose terminal panicles of white or yellowish 



flowers, followed by globular thick-walled rugose green fruits 



'5 '8 in. in diam. 



W. Ghats from the Nilgiris southwards, up to 4,000 ft. 



Wood yellowish, hard and close-grained. Vern. Tarn. Mattei ; 



Mai. Madakka. 



Family XYII. CARYOPHYLLACEAE. 



Herbs, sometimes a little woody at the base. Leaves opposite, 

 usually quite entire; stipules scarious, setaceous or 0. Flowers 

 bisexual or rarely unisexual. Sepals 4-5, free and imbricate in 

 bud or united into a toothed calyx. Petals 4-5, entire toothed or 

 bifid, sessile or clawed or sometimes 0. Stamens 8-10, rarely 

 fewer, inserted with the petals and sometimes slightly adherent to 

 them ; anthers 2-celled, cells parallel, dehiscing lengthwise. Disk 

 annular or glandular or elongated into a gynophore. Ovary free, 

 1-celled or imperfectly 3-5-celled ; styles 2-5, free or connate, 

 stigmatose on the inner side ; ovules 2 or many on a tree central 



