Tetrameles.] DatlSCacecS. 265 



papery, pendulous, near 1 in., pale brown, shining, wings 

 slightly unequal, broad, with upper margin either straight, or 

 completely rounded off without an angle. 



Moist region, up to 5000 ft.; rather common in wet rocky places, 

 especially above 3000 ft. Ritigala, N.C. Prov. (Bell). Fl. all the year ; 

 rose-pink or nearly white. 



Also in Malabar. 



Variable, but not divisible into distinct varieties. I find the angled 

 and rounded wings in fruits on the same plant. C. P. 3949 (from Matale) 

 has narrow rounded wings and deeply gashed leaves. 



LX — DATISCACE^. 



TREE, 1. alt., simple, without stip., fl. small, unisexual, dioe- 

 cious in panicles, apetalous ; male fl. : — cal. deeply cut into 4 

 segm. ; pet. o ; stam. 4, opp. cal.-segm., inserted round a flat 

 central disk ; fern. fl. : — cal.-tube connate with ov., segm. 4, 

 short; pet. o; ov. quite inferior, i-celled, with numerous 

 ovules on 4 parietal placentas, styles 4, distinct, persistent ; 

 capsule small, ovoid, opening at summit ; seeds minute, 

 flattened, with a very loose testa, with endosperm. 

 There are only 2 other genera in this small Order. 



TETRAMELES, Br. 

 For characters, see Order. — Monotypic. 



T. nudiflora, R. Br. in Be?m. Pl.Jav. Bar. 79 (1838). Nigunu, 

 Mug-unu, S. 



Thw. Enum. 252. C. P. 31 13. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 657. Wight, lc. t. 1956 {T. Grahamiana). Bedd. Fl. 

 Sylv. t. 212. 



A very large tree, with a straight trunk, unbranched below 

 and buttressed at the base, bark smooth, grey, fibrous, twigs 

 marked with scars of past leaves, young parts puberulous ; 

 1. alt., large, 6-7 in., ovate, strongly cordate at base, acumi- 

 nate, acute, irregularly dentate, in upper part, bright green and 

 glabrous above, paler and with prominent, yellow, softly 

 hairy, reticulate venation beneath, petiole 4-6 in., cylindrical, 

 pubescent ; fl. numerous, panicles many, from the base of the 

 new growth below the young 1., 6-10 in., stalked, slender, 

 hairy ; male with spreading branches and fl. on slender ped., 



