460 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Weihea. 



6. Weihea, Spreng. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, petioled, entire or obtusely 

 serrate. Flowers axillary, solitary or fascicled ; bracteoles 2, 

 connate in a cup, at length a short distance below the calyx. 

 Calyx-tiibe shortly turbinate, adnate to the ovary; lobes 4-5, 

 spreading, valvate. Petals 4-5, inserted under the margin of 

 an obscure disk, clawed, spathulate, fimbriate. Stamens 16-30, 

 inserted on the disk ; filaments filiform ; anthers oblong. Ovary 

 superior, 3-ceiled, 2 pendulous ovules in each cell ; style filiform ; 

 stigma 2-4-lobed. Fruit globose, fleshy, splitting in 3-4 valves, 

 3-4-celled, the cells 1-2-seeded. Seeds ovoid, arillate, albuminous ; 

 cotyledons flat ; radicle terete. 



WEIHEA ZEYLANICA, Baill. ; F. B. I. ii. 441; Bedd. Fl. t. 194. 

 W. Ghats, in the hills of Travancore and Tinnevelly, at low 

 elevations. 



A small tree with thin ovate acuminate leaves and white 

 flowers. Yern. Tarn. Kanun. 



7. Blepharistemma, Wall. 



A tree. Leaves opposite, petioled, membranous, elliptic-oblong, 

 acuminate, crenate. Flowers polygamo-dioecious, in many- 

 flowered axillary cymes ; bracteoles 0. Calyx-tube campanulate. 

 adnate to the base of the ovary ; lobes 4, erect. Petals 4, clawed, 

 spathulate, lacerate at apex, inserted round an 8-lobed disk, the 

 disk lobes long in <J, shorter in . Stamens 8, inserted on 

 the margin of the disk, small in $ ; filaments ciliate ; anthers 

 oblong. Ovary free, 3-celled, 2 ovules in each cell; style short 

 in <J, longer in J ; stigma shortly 3 lobed. Fruit a fleshy capsule. 



BLEPHARISTEMMA CORYMBOSUM, Wall.; F. B. I. ii. 44]. 



W. Coast and W. Ghats, from Coorg to Travancore, up to 

 2,500 ft., in evergreen forest. 



A handsome straight-stemmed tree, in favourable situations 

 reaching a considerable size, with white flowers and greenish- 

 black fruit. Wood pale greenish -yellow, moderately hard. 

 Yern. Mai. Nir kurunda, 



