Eiupanthus] Connaracece. 3 



I in., ovoid, slightly compressed, shining, purplish-black, sur- 

 rounded at base by a large, pulpy, yellow aril. 



Dry region, very common ; moist low country in sandy places rather 

 rare, e.g., Colombo, Ratnapura, Deyandera, S. Prov. Fl. Sept.-Feb. 



Also in Southern India. 



Sir J. Hooker, in Fl. B. Ind., refers Bunnann's figure to Roitrea santa- 

 loides; but, though not very good, it clearly represents C. monocarpus. 

 The ripe follicles with the seed are very pretty objects, hanging in clusters 

 from the ends of the branches. 



2. C. Championii,* Thw. Enum. So (1858). Wel-radaliya, S. 

 C. P. 2399. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 52. 



A climbing shrub, bark brown, rough with lenticels, young 

 parts rufous-puberulous ; l.-rachis 4-6 in., much tumid and 

 wrinkled at base, cylindrical, smooth, lflts. 5-7, on short 

 swollen stalks, 3-4 in., oval, rounded at base, caudate-acumi- 

 nate, glabrous, shining above, veins prominent beneath ; fl. 

 under ] in., on very short rufous-hairy ped., arranged on 

 spicate branches of spreading or pyramidal, rufous, axillary 

 and terminal panicles, bracts small, rufous-woolly ; cal.-segm. 

 linear-lanceolate, acute, covered with red pubescence ; follicle 

 1 [ in., obovoid, very blunt and truncate, tapering to narrow 

 base (but not stalked), which is surrounded by persistent cal., 

 nearly straight along upper edge, very gibbous along ventral 

 suture, glabrous, striate with oblique ridges, opening by ventral 

 suture only, scarlet ; seed ] in., broadly ovoid, nearly black, 

 aril as in the last. 



Moist region, up to 4000 ft.; rather rare. Hantane ; Hunasgiria. 

 Fl Jan.; cream-coloured. 

 Endemic. 



3. ELLIPANTHUS. llk.f. 



Tree, 1. reduced to a single lflt.; fl. small, regular, often 

 unisexual, racemose ; cal. deeply 5 -fid., segm. valvate, per- 

 nt but not enlarged in fruit ; pet. 5, spreading ; slam. 5, 

 mating with 5 small, tooth-like fil. without anth., slightly 

 nate at : up, solitary, style short, stigma dilated; 



fruit a follicle ; seed solitary, with a large pulpy aril, cotyle- 

 don .-■:, no endosperm. — Sp. 5; all in FL />'. Tnd. 



E. ThwaitCBii, ///./ in II. II. In,/, ii. 5; (!.S 7 n). 



wUfoliatu .num. 80. /■.'. wdfolUUus^ Ilk. I, Id. 1 m. 



1. ii. 55. Bedd PI Sylv. 1. 170 (/•;. uni/oliatus). 



da I oL) f.G. Champion, 05th Ri 1 , 



mil |».u>i 11 Mi' h attention t<> its 

 >•. Killed at Inkermann, in 1854. 



