192 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Anacolosa. 



surrounded by the accrescent disk ; stone crustaceous, 1-seeded. 

 Seed pendulous ; albumen fleshy ; embryo minute ; radicle 

 superior, thicker than the cotyledons. 



ANACOLOSA DENSIFLORA, Bedd. ; F. B. I. i. 580 ; Bedd. Fl. t. 138. 



W. Ghats in the Anamalai and Travancore Hills, up to 



2,500 ft. 



A lofty straight- stemmed tree with oblong leaves up to 6 in. 



long and 2 in. broad, and many fragrant white flowers. 



Wood reddish-brown, moderately hard. Vern. Tarn. Katta 



ockkali ; Mai. Kal rnariikkam. 



Family XLI. OPILIACEAE. 



Trees or erect or climbing shrubs. Leaves alternate, entire. 

 Flowers hermaphrodite or dioecious, small, in axillary spikes or 

 racemes. Calyx small or minute, obscurely 4-5-lobed. Petals 

 4-5, free or connate in a gamopetalous corolla. Disk flesjiy entire 

 or of glands as many as the petals and alternate ^ybh them. 

 Stamens as many as the petals and opposite to thepi. Ovary 

 1-celled; ovule 1, pendulous. Fruits, drupe. Seed\\ albumen 

 fleshy ; embryo imbedded in the albumen, cotyledons llaear, some- 

 times 3, sometimes combined ; radicle superior. 



Petals free ; flowers in bracteate racemes 1 . Opilia. 



Petals combined in a gamopetalous corolla ; flowers in spikes 



2. Cansjera. 

 1. Opilia, Eoxb. 



Low trees or climbing shrubs. Leaves alternate, entire, penni- 

 nerved. Flowers small, 1-3 together in the axils of peltate decidu- 

 ous bracts, in axillary racemes, the racemes in bud cone-like. Calyx 

 minute, annular, obscurely 5-lobed. Petals 5, oblong, valvate. 

 Disk of 5 fleshy clubshaped glands alternate with the petals. 

 Stamens 5, opposite the petals, filaments slender ; anthers small, 

 2-celled. Ovary superior, oblong ; style very short ; ovule 

 solitary, pendulous. Fruit a drupe with fleshy pericarp and thin 

 stone. Seed large ; albumen copious, fleshy ; embryo linear in the 

 centre of the upper part of the albumen ; cotyledons joined 

 together, long ; radicle superior. 



OPILIA AMENTACEA, Roxb. Cor. PL iii. t. 158 ; F. B. I. i. 583 ; Wt. 



111. t. 40. Ximenia ? olacioides y W. & A. 89. 



A rather scarce weak climbing shrub with pale brown branch- 



