184 FLOE A OF MADRAS. [Beddomea. 



13. Beddomea, Hook. f. 



Trees or shrubs, usually lepidote- or stellate-pubescent. Leaves 

 alternate, simple or pinnate ; leaflets entire. Floivers hermaphro- 

 dite, in axillary panicles of racemes. Calyx 4-6-lobed, imbri- 

 cate. Petals 5-6, free, concave, much imbricate. Staminal tube 

 globose, crenulate at the small mouth ; anthers ; 5-6, included or 

 partly exserted, their connectives thick, attached broadly to the 

 tube at their back. Disk inconspicuous or 0. Ovary short, villous, 

 3-celled ; style short ; stigma 3-lobed ; ovules 2 in each cell, col- 

 lateral. Frmt an ovoid or obovoid, beaked, furrowed, stellate- 

 pubescent capsule, finally dehiscing in 2-3 cells. Seeds 3-5, 

 exarillate ; albumen ; cotyledons fleshy, superposed, enclosing 

 the radicle. 



Leaflets 3-5 ; calyx small, spreading ; staminal tube thick, enclosing the 



large anthers ; capsule obovoid 1. indica. 



Leaflet 1 ; calyx usually large, enclosing the petals ; staminal tube thin, 

 the anthers small, inserted near the top and partly exsert ; capsule oblong 



2. simplicifolia. 



1. BEDDOMEA INDICA, Hook. f. ; F. B. I. i. 566. 



W. Ghats on the E. slopes of Nilgiris and Hills of Malabar, 



up to 3,000 ft. 



A shrub of the evergreen forest undergrowth. 



2. BEDDOMEA SIMPLICIFOLIA, Bedd. Fl. t. 135 ; F. B. I. i. 566. 



W. Ghats from Coorg to Travancore and Tinnevelly, at 

 2,000 to 4,000 ft. 



A small tree with rather variable inflorescence, separable 

 into three varieties : (1) large flowers in long stout racemes, 

 (2) small flowers in short panicles, and (3) medium flowers 

 in long slender racemes, but they all agree in foliage. 



14. Xylocarpus, Koen. 



Trees, always littoral. Leaves alternate, paripinnate ; leaflets 

 1-3 pairs, sometimes solitary. Flowers hermaphrodite, in lax few- 

 flowered axillary panicles. Calyx 4-lobed, short. Petals 4, free, 

 spreading, contorted. Staminal tube urceolate-globose, 8-toothed 

 at apex, the teeth again bilobed ; anthers 8, included just under 

 the teeth of the tube and alternate with them. Disk cupular, 

 fleshy. Ovary 4-celled ; style thick, short ; stigma discoid ; ovules 

 2-12 in each cell, Fruit a large globose 4-celled capsule. Seeds 



