Myrtacea. 165: 



with the long wing-like persistent cal.-segm., stone bony ;. 



seed with large convolute cotyledons. 



Placed by Thwaites at end of Lauracece, to which its stamens are so 

 remarkably similar. The fruit is constantly mistaken for that of a 

 Dipterocarp. 



G. Jacquini, Roxb. Cor. PL I., i. (1795). Hima, S. Tanak- 

 ku, T. 



G. asiaticus, Willd., Moon Cat. 73 ; Thw. Enum. 258. C. P. 2202. 

 Fl. B. Ind. ii. 461 (not given for Ceylon). Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 196. 



A moderate-sized or large tree, with an erect trunk and 

 rather small spreading head, bark smooth, shining, greenish- 

 white, young branches stout, marked with leaf-scars, young 

 parts densely pubescent ; 1. alt. rather crowded, spreading, 

 4-6 in. and nearly as wide, very broadly ovoid or somewhat 

 rhomboid, tapering to base, acuminate, acute, glabrous above, 

 densely soft-pubescent with stellate hair beneath, strongly 

 3-veined from base, petiole very long, 2-5 in., slender; fl. small, 

 the male very numerous, the female few, all on slender ped. 

 arranged in globular clusters in large much-branched cymes 

 on long pubescent peduncles, several of which arise from the 

 ends of the twigs above the new 1. ; cal. densely hairy- 

 pubescent ; fruit (without the wings) about f in., ovate-ovoid, 

 furrowed in upper part, wrinkled below, pubescent, wings 

 2\-^\ in. long, linear-spathulate, obtuse, thinly leathery, 

 striate, pubescent, greyish-brown, stone ovoid, bony, furrowed. 



Dry and intermediate country ; rather common. Moon's locality is 

 Kattregam. Fl. Feb., March, April ; cream-coloured. 



Throughout the Tropics, G. americanus, Jacq., not being distinguish- 

 able. 



The tree is quite bare of leaves for a short time. Wood very light, 

 soft, greyish white; much used in the north of the island for catamarans 

 (rafts ) and the outriggers of boats. Lac is found on this in the Uva 

 country. 



LI I.— MYRTACE/E. 



TREES or shrubs, 1. opp. or alt., simple, without or with very 

 minute stip., fl. regular, bisexual ; cal.-tube adnate to ov. and 

 rarely produced beyond it, segm. 4 or 5 (rarely 2 or 3), usually 

 lent in fruit ; pet. 4 or 5 (Very rarely more), distinct, 01 

 slightly connate at base or united into a deciduous cap ; stam 

 indef., cpigynous, distinct or connate below; ov. inferior, 2-4- 

 celled, with many ovules in each cell, style simple ; fruit 



