i Ipodytes.] 1C A CINA CEA K. 195 



Leaves subcoriaceous, very variable in shape, obtuse or obtusely acute, 

 main nerves about 4, irregular, not obviously joining in loops ; inflor- 

 escence usually leaf -opposed rarely axillary ; filament hairs few or none. 



2. coriacea. 



1. GOMPHANDRA POLYMORPHA, Wt. 111. 103; F. B. I. i. 5SQ,inpart. 



W. Ghats, in Wynaad, Nilgiris and Anamalais in low-level 

 Sholas up to 4,000 ft. 



2. GOMPHANDRA CORIACEA, Wt. 111. 103. G. polymorpha, Wt. 

 Ic. tt. 953, 954; F. B. I. i. 586, in part. 



W. Ghats, common in Sholas of the Nilgiris, Pulneys, 

 Auamalais and Travancore Hills at from 3,000 to 6,000 ft. 



2. Apodytes, E. Meyer. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, entire, usually turning black 

 in drying. Flowers hermaphrodite, in terminal or axillary corym- 

 bose cymes. Calyx small, cupshaped, 5-toothed. Petals 5, 

 hypogynous, free, valvate. Disk 0. Stamens 5, alternate with 

 the petals ; filaments dilated ; anthers oblong, bipartite at base, 

 2-celled, the cells dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary 1-celled, 

 obliquely gibbous ; style slender ; stigma small ; ovules 2, 

 pendulous, superposed. Fruit an obliquely ovoid compressed 

 drupe ; stone crustaceous, 1-celled, 1-seeded. Seed pendulous ; 

 embryo small, in the apex of fleshy albumen ; cotyledons narrow. 



Leaves oblong, obtuse, with revolute margins, coriaceous ; petals -25 in. 



long ; ovary hairy 1 . Benthamiana. 



Leaves broadly ovate, acute or acuminate, with flat margins, mem- 

 branous ; petals '15 in. long; ovary glabrous 2. BeddomeA. 



1. APODYTES BENTHAMIANA, Wt. Ic. t. 1153 ; F. B. I. i. 588 ; 

 Bedd. Fl. t. 140, var. . 



W. Ghats in the Nilgiris, Anamalais, Travancore and 



Tinnevelly Hills above 5,000 ft. 



A medium-sized tree reaching 40 ft. in height. 



2. APODYTES BEDDOMEI, Mast, in F. B. I. i. 588. A. Bentha- 

 miana, Bedd. Fl. t. 140, var. /3. 



W. Ghats in the evergreen forests of Nilgiris, Anamalais 

 and Travancore up to 3,000 ft. 

 A medium-sized tree. 



