Maeodendron.'] CELA8TRACEAE. 211 



immersed in the disk, 1-2-celled ; style short, thick ; stigma 

 broad, peltate ; ovules 2 in each cell, collateral. Fruit indehis- 

 cent, 1-2-celled, marked on one side by the remains of the style. 

 Seed 1. rarely 2, erect, covered by the arillus-like testa ; albumen 

 fleshy; cotyledons flat ; radicle inferior. 



PLEUROSTYLIA WIGHTII, W. & A. 157 ; F. B. I. i. 617 ; Wt. Ic. 

 t. 155. P. Hey net, W. & A. 157. 



N". Circars, in dry forests of Vizagapatam and Godavari ; 

 Deccan, in Cuddapah, Mysore and Coirnbatore ; W. Ghats, in 

 the drier forests of N. Nilgiris, Travancore and Tinnevelly. 

 A small evergreen tree with small somewhat obovate leaves, 

 minute flowers and small white ovoid fruit. Bark grey, 

 tessellated in small squares ; wood light red or greyish, 

 hard, used in Cuddapah to make combs. Yern. Tarn. Chiru 

 piyari, Karuvali ; Tel. Piyari. 



9. Elaeodendron, Jacq. f. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite or subopposite, entire or 

 crenate ; stipules minute, caducous. Flowers hermaphrodite, 

 sometimes polygamous, in axillary dichasioid corymbose cymes. 

 Calyx 5-lobed ; lobes often unequal, imbricate. Petals 5, spread- 

 ing. Disk thick, cushion-like, margin sinuate. Stamens 5, inserted 

 into the margin of the disk; filaments slender, at length recurved; 

 anthers subglobose. Ovary adnate to the disk, conical, 2-5-celled; 

 style short; stigma small; ovules 2 in each cell. Fruit an in- 

 dehiscent drupe, dry or succulent; stones 1-3-celled, cells 1-, 

 rarely 2-seeded. Seeds erect, exarillate ; testa membranous or 

 spongy; albumen ; cotyledons thick, fleshy; radicle inferior. 



Leaves ovate or elliptic, sometimes obovate, obtuse or acute, usually 

 pale grey when dry, entire or shallowly crenate; flowers *25 in. in 

 diam. in slender cymes usually tinder 2 in. long, sometimes 3 in. 



1. glaucum. 



Leaves lanceolate or oblanceolate, obtusely acuminate, reddish-brown 

 or almost black when dry, broadly and deeply crenate ; flowers *4 in. 

 in diam. in rather stout cymes usually 4 in. long 2. paniculatum. 



1. ELAEODENDRON GLAUCUM, Pers. ; F. B. I. i, 623 in part. 

 K RoxburgUi, W. & A. 157 ; Wt. 111. t, 71 ; Bedd. PL 1. 148. 

 Deciduous forests in most forest Districts of N. Circars, 

 Deccan and Carnatic, also on W. Coast. 



