Casearia.] Samydacea:. 237 



1. C. esculenta, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 422 (1832). Wal-waraka, 5, 

 X&akkaipalai, T. 



C. ovata, Moon Cat. 35 (? Willd.). Vareca* zeylanica, Gaertn. Fruct. 

 i. 290. C. zeylanica, C. Chamfiionii, C. varians, vars. a, ovata, and [3, 

 minor, Thw. Enum. 19. C. P. 415, 2604, 2608, 2657, 3365. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 592. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 208 (C. varians). 



A shrub or tree with slender branchlets, bark yellowish- 

 white, smooth, young parts glabrous, 1. 2-5 in., from narrow- 

 lanceolate to oval, tapering to base, shortly acuminate, obtuse 

 or subacute, entire or faintly serrate in upper part, perfectly 

 glabrous, rather thick, petiole short, stip. persistent ; pet. 

 stout, longer than cal., and articulated at the base which is 

 surrounded by numerous very small bracts, few or many on a 

 raised boss in axils of past and present 1. ; cal.-segm. ovate, 

 obtuse, persistent ; stam. 6 or usually 8, staminodes as long as 

 fil., oblong, ciliate or hairy; fruit about f in., broadly ovoid, 

 apiculate, glabrous or very slightly pubescent, orange-yellow, 

 dehiscing by 3 (or 2), thick valves ; seeds several, almost en- 

 tirely covered by the large fleshy lacerate scarlet aril. 



Both moist and dry regions, and extending up to 5000 ft. Fl. Feb. 

 April ; greenish ; fruit orange. 



Also in South India and the Malay Peninsula. 



Moon gives the native name ' Wal-munamal.' Possibly this is S. 

 ovata, Willd., based on Rheede, Hort. Mai. iv. t. 49, in which case 

 that name would take priority over S. esculenta. I agree with Clarke in 

 combining the species of Thwaites. The Fl. B. Ind. quotes C. P. 2603 

 as var. angtista, with narrow lanceolar leaves, which number is referred 

 by Thwaites to his C. zeylanica. 



Wood pale yellow, moderately hard and heavy. The wood and leaves 

 are used medicinally ; the fruit is eaten. 



2. C. coriacea, Thw. Enum. 20 (1858). 



C. varians, var. y, obovata, Thw. Enum. 20. C. P. 465, 12 17. 

 Fl. B. Ind. ii. 592. 



A moderate-sized tree, twigs glabrous; 1. 2-3 in., obovate- 

 oval or obovate, tapering to base, obtuse or rounded at apex, 

 entire, glabrous, more or less coriaceous, venation conspicu- 

 ous, reticulate, petiole very short; ped. short, slender, glabrous, 

 arranged as in the last; cal.-segm. rounded, stam. 6 (or 8), 

 staminodes about half as long as fil., ciliate, ov. glabrous; 

 fruit about f in., ovoid, apiculate, smooth, 2-valved, orange. 



Upper montane zone above 6000 ft.; rare. Adam's Peak; Nuwara 

 Eliya. Fl. Jan.; green. 



Endemic. 



C. I'. 4O5, from Adam's Peak, has the 1. more coriaceous, and with a 

 more copious reticulation. 



* Vareca, from the Sinhalese name. 



