Pygeum.'] ROSACEAE. 437 



1. Parinarium, Jnss. 



Trees. Leaves simple, alternate, evergreen, quite entire ; 

 stipules subulate or lanceolate. Flowers hermaphrodite, white 

 or pink, in corymbose racemes, bracteate. Calyx-tube campanu- 

 late or funnel-shaped; lobes 5, imbricate. Petals 5, inserted 

 on the mouth of the calyx-tube, sessile or clawed, deciduous. 

 Stamens numerous ; filaments connate at the base in a ring or 

 unilateral bundle, filiform ; anthers small. Ovary adnate to the 

 side of the calyx-tube, 2-celled, the ovules erect; style basal, 

 filiform ; stigma truncate. Fruit an ovoid or spherical drupe, 

 the stone 1-2-seeded, woody or bony. Seeds erect; testa mem- 

 branous ; cotyledons fleshy. 



Leaflets 8-9 in. long, 3 in. broad, elliptic-lanceolate, glabrous 

 racemes stout, axillary or terminal, slightly pubescent, about 4 in. 



long ; flowers white 1. indicum. 



Leaves 4-5 in. long, 1-1 '5 in. broad, lanceolate, glabrous except the 

 silky midrib beneath; racemes slender, drooping, usually axillary, 

 silky- villous, about 2 in. long ; flowers pink 2. travancoricum. 



1. PARINARIUM INDICUM, Bedd. Ic. t. 109, Fl. t. 191 ; F. B. I. 

 ii. 311. 



W. Ghats, about the Carcoor Ghat, S.-E. Wynaad, in 

 moist woods at 2,000-3,000 ft. (Beddome). 

 A middling-sized evergreen tree. 



2. PARINARIUM TRAVANCORICUM, Bedd. Ic. t. 189; F. B. I. 

 ii. 311. 



W. Ghats, in the Travancore Hills, in evergreen forests 

 at 2,000 ft. (Beddome, Bourdillon). 



A small graceful evergreen tree with straight cylindric 

 stein. Bark smooth, mottled brown and white; wood 

 hard, smooth, pink. 



2. Pygeum, Gaertn. 



Evergreen shrubs or trees. Leaves simple, alternate, persistent, 

 entire or rarely toothed, sometimes with pitted glands near the 

 base ; stipules small, deciduous. Flowers small, in racemes, 

 sometimes <J only by suppression of the ovary ; bracts deciduous, 

 in early bud forming a cone. Calyx-tube obcoiiic .urceolate or 

 campanulate, usually villous within, deciduous usually in a ring 



