Microtropis.~] CELASTRACEAE. 205 



subulate ; anthers oblong. Ovary small, immersed in the disk and 

 continuous with it, triquetrous ; style short ; stigma capitate ; 

 ovules 4 or more in each cell, in 2 series. Fruit a coriaceous 

 3-4-angled, 3-4-celled, loculicidal capsule. Seeds few or many, 

 rarely winged, arillate ; albumen fleshy ; embryo small. 



LOPHOPETALUM WlGHTIANUM, Am. ; F. B. I. i. 615 ; Wt. Ic. 



t. 162; Bedd. Fl. t. 145. 



W. Ghats, in evergreen forests and on river banks at low 

 elevations and up to 3,000 ft., from S. Canara southwards. 

 A lofty evergreen tree, with oblong, entire, abruptly acu- 

 minate leaves up to 6 in. long, dull reddish flowers and 

 capsule 4 in. long, sharply triangular in section ; seeds thin, 

 2 in. long. Bark smooth, mottled brown and white ; wood 

 reddish- grey, close-grained, useful in carpentry, but not 

 durable. Yern. Tarn. Venkottei ; Mai. Yenkotta ; Kan. 

 B alp ale. 



4. Microtropis, Wall. 



Trees or shrubs, glabrous, evergreen. Leaves opposite, entire, 

 exstipulate. Flowers in sessile clusters or peduncled dichasioid 

 cymes, axillary or supra-axillary, sometimes unisexual. Sepals 5, 

 imbricate, often unequal. Petals 5, more or less connate at the 

 base with the back of the disk. Disk annular, sometimes 0. 

 Stamens 5, inserted on the disk. Ovary free, ovoid or conical, 

 imperfectly 2-3-celled ; style short ; stigma minutely 2-4-lobed ; 

 ovules 2 in each cell, collateral. Fruit an ovoid or oblong, 1-celled, 

 2-valved, 1-seeded capsule, surrounded at the base by the per- 

 sistent calyx. Seed erect, oblong ; testa more or less fleshy ; 

 albumen thickly fleshy ; cotyledons foliaceous ; radicle cylindric, 

 inferior. 



Flowers sessile, clustered at the axils of the leaves or of fallen 



leaves : 



Leaves scarcely coriaceous, elliptic or oblanceolate, obtusely acute 

 at apex, long-attenuate at base, I 1 5-4 in. long, 1-2 in. broad; 

 flowers very small, in clusters under '3 in. in diam ; capsule '6-7 in. 



long ; branchlets yellowish, youngest darker 1. Wallichiana. 



Leaves coriaceous, elliptic or somewhat oblanceolate, obtusely 

 acute at apex, cuneate at base, margins reflexed, nerves prominent 

 on lower less so on upper surface, 3-6 in. long, l-2'5 in. broad; 

 flowers small, in clusters about '5 in. in diam.; capsule oblong, 

 '7-*8 in. long ; branchlets black-purple 2. Stoclcsii. 



