238 Samydacece. \Homalium. 



3. C. tomentosa, Roxb. Fl. hid. ii. 421 (1832). 



Thw. Enum. 19. C. P. 1248. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 593. Brandis, For. Fl. t. 31. 



A shrub or small tree, twigs pubescent; 1. 3—4 in., lanceo- 

 late-oblong, acute at base, acute or obtuse at apex, shallowly 

 crenate-serrate, nearly glabrous above, pubescent beneath, 

 petiole £—§ in., pubescent; fl. not seen; fruit about f in., ovoid, 

 apiculate, bluntly 6-angled, 3-valved. 



Dry region ; very rare. Jaffna and Sigiri (Gardner). 

 Also in India, Malaya, N. Australia. 

 I have seen only Gardner's specimens. 



2. OSIKEXiXA, Thw. 



Tree, 1. alt, with minute deciduous stip.; fl. small, in long 

 terminal panicles; cal. free, with 5 deep segm.; pet. o; stam. 

 10, 5 alternating with large hairy bifid scale-like stamin- 

 odes and 5 coming off from them between their lobes; ov. 

 superior, 1 -celled, with 3 placentas and few ovules on each, 

 styles 3, short; fruit a subcoriaceous 3-valved capsule; seeds 

 1-4, surrounded by a fleshy red aril, embryo straight, in axis 

 of endosperm. — Sp. 3 ; 1 in Fl. B. Ind. (the other 2 from the 

 Philippine Is.). 



O. Gardner i, Thzu. Enum. 20 (1858). 



C. P. 1246. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 592 (O. zeylanicd). Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 209. 



A moderate-sized tree, with smooth grey bark, twigs 

 cylindrical, pilose ; 1. 2J-4 in., lanceolate, acute at base, sud- 

 denly and shortly acuminate, obtuse, entire, glabrous, veins 

 slender, conspicuous, petiole \-\ in.; fl. numerous, almost ses- 

 sile, surrounded at base by a small cup-like bractlet, in inter- 

 rupted spicate racemes arranged in long drooping terminal 

 panicles; cal.-segm. rounded ; ov. very hairy ; fruit about \ in., 

 subglobose, densely pubescent, purplish. 



Moist region at 2000-4000 ft. ; rare. Hantane (Gardner) ; Uduwelle; 

 Alagala; Potupitiya, Kukul Korale. Fl. July, August; greenish-white, 

 tinged with pink. 



Endemic. 



3. HOXVIALIUM,/ acq. 



Large tree, 1. alt., simple, fl. small, in long axillary race- 

 mose panicles ; cal.-tube adnate to lower half of ov., segm. 4 

 or 5 ; pet. 4 or 5 ; stam. 4 or 5, opp. pet., alternating with 

 rounded, pubescent, bilobed staminodes ; ov. ^-inferior, 1 -celled, 



