286 ComaceCB. [Mastixia. 



segm. very shallow, acute ; pet. usually 6, about ■§-§ in., 

 narrowly linear, densely pubescent outside, reflexed ; stam. 

 numerous (over 20), nearly as long as pet., erect ; style as 

 long as stam., stigma very large ; fruit nearly globular when 

 fully ripe (previously oblong-oval), near 1 in. diam., capped 

 with persistent cal.-limb, finely pubescent, not ribbed, pur- 

 plish-red. 



Dry and intermediate regions ; rather common. Jaffna ; Bintenne ; 

 Polonarua; Uma-oya; Lagalla District; Hanguranketa; Dikwelle Uva ; 

 Kurunegala. Also about Colombo, but not wild there. Fl. June-July ; 

 white. 



Also throughout India and Malaya, S. China, Philippines, and E. 

 Africa. 



Moon gives native names, 'Ipetta' and ' Katapetta,' for this, and 

 ' Kiri-anguna ' has been given me, but I doubt if it has a real Sinhalese 

 name. Specimens from Polonarua have narrowly oblong-linear leaves. 



The bark is bitter. Heart-wood hard, close-grained, dark yellow. 



2. A. glandulosum, TJvw. Enum. 133 (1859). 



C. P. 381. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 742 {A. Lamarckii, var.). 



A subscandent shrub, climbing by its horizontal branchlets, 

 bark brown, young parts furfuraceous, dark red; 1. 2J-5 in., 

 oblong-oval or oblong-lanceolate, acute at base, conspicuously 

 caudate-acuminate, glabrous above, very minutely glandular- 

 puberulent beneath, lat. veins with small glandular pits in 

 their axils ; fl. smaller than in the last, ped. glandular- 

 pubescent, articulated close to the top with 3 or 4 small 

 bractlets beneath the joint, 1-4 in the axils ; cal. glandular- 

 pubescent, segm. small, very acute ; pet. usually 6, barely \ in., 

 linear ; stam. 15-20; fruit f in. diam., nearly globose, smooth, 

 purplish-red. 



Moist region, 2000-4000 ft.; rather rare. Dolosbagie ; Alagala; 

 Hantane; Ambagamuwa; Adam's Peak. Fl. March; white, calyx red. 



Endemic. 



This is regarded as a variety of A. Lamarckii \n Fl. B. Ind.; it does 

 not appear ever to have thorns. 



2. MASTIXIA, Bl. 



Large trees, 1. alt, without stip., fl. in terminal panicles; cal.- 

 tube adnate to ov., segm. 4 or 5, small ; pet. 4 or 5, valvate ; 

 stam. 4 or 5, epigynous, anth. short; disk large, fleshy ; ov. 

 quite inferior, 1 -celled, with a single pendulous ovule, style 

 simple ; drupe with a hard fleshy epicarp, and a bony endo- 

 carp, which is deeply intruded down one side ; seed ovoid, 



