-Anisophyilea.] Rhizophoracece. 157 



rarer in the moist region, e.g. Kalutara ; Galle ; Kandy. Fl. July- 

 September ; white. 



Also in Southern India. 



Specimens of this are in Wight's Herb, labelled ' Ceylon, 1796, Klein,' 

 but there are none in Rattler's collection at Kew. 



A very remarkable plant ; the stip. are like those of Rubiacece. 



6. ANISOPHYLLEA, Br. 

 Tree, 1. alt., dimorphic, without stip., fl. small, in supra- 

 axillary racemes ; cal.-tube adnate to ov., segm. 4 ; pet. 4, 

 laciniate ; stam. 8, epigynous; ov. inferior, 4-celled, with a 

 solitary pendulous ovule in each cell ; fruit coriaceous, inde- 

 hiscent, 1 -seeded ; seed without endosperm, embryo large, 

 without cotyledons. — Sp. 5 ; 4 in Fl. B. Lid. 



A very singular plant ; the embryo, as remarked by Thwaites, is 

 precisely like that of Barringtonia and Careya, along with which genera 

 he places it. 



A. zeylanica, Benth. in Niger Flora, 575 (1849). W^li-penna, 

 Weli piyana, S. 



Tetracrypta cinnamomoides , Gardn. and Champ, in Kew Journ. Bot. i. 

 314, and v. 378. 



Thw. Enum. 119. C. P. 2205. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 442. Kew Journ. Bot. v. t. 5. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 195. 



A moderate-sized tree, with dark brown bark, branches 

 horizontal or drooping, young twigs pubescent ; 1. of two kinds, 

 normal large and persistent ones, and very small usually 

 deciduous ones on the younger branches, normal 1. on a very 

 short, broad, flattened petiole, 4-5 in., ovate-oblong, rounded 

 or tapering to unequal base, caudate-acuminate, obtuse or 

 subacute, entire, glabrous, strongly 5 -nerved from base with 

 the nerves very prominent beneath, dark green, paler beneath, 

 the smaller 1. alternating with the normal ones, sessile, 

 ^-§ in., lanceolate, acute, green, stipuliform ; fl. small, on short 

 slender pilose ped., arranged in 2 or 3 very short racemes, 

 superposed and supra-axillary; cal.-tube pubescent, deeply 

 S-furrovved, segm. triangular ; pet. cuneate, deeply cut into 5 

 linear lacinia;; fruit about 1 in., fusiform, crowned with per- 

 sistent cal.-segm., deeply 8-furrowed, leathery, glabrous. 



Moist low country, up to 3000 ft., rather common. Moon's specimens 

 are from Kalutara. 



Fl. April-October ; greenish-white. 



Endemic. 



When young the branches are whorled, and spread horizontally. The 

 larger leaves have much resemblance to Cinnamon, but are often very 

 unequal-sided. Wood greyish-yellow, rather hard, with very conspicuous 

 medullary rays and pores, the former connected by transverse bars of 

 soft tissue. 



