Guettarda] RubiaceCB. ?>37 



subglobose ; seeds 1-5 in each cell, oblong, bright red, im- 

 mersed in purple pulp. 



Lower montane zone; very rare. Ambagamuwa Dist. at about 3000 

 ft. (Thwaites); Haputale at about 5000 ft. Fl. Feb., Sept.; pale greenish- 

 yellow. 



Endemic. 



28. SCYFKIPHOBA, Gaertn. 



A small tree, stip. short and broad, fl. small, in short 

 axillary cymes ; cal.-limb cup-shaped, persistent, segm. very 

 small, tooth-like ; cor.-tube short, lobes 4 (or 5), imbricate ; 

 stam. 4 (or 5), inserted at mouth of cor.; anth. sagittate at 

 base; ov. long, 2-celled, with 2 ovules in each cell, one erect,, 

 the other pendulous; fruit a drupe, with 2 connate pyrenes, 

 each with 2 seeds. — Monotypic. 



S. hydrophylacea, Gaertn. f. Fruct. iii. 91 (1805). 



Epithinia ma/ayana, Jack, Thw. Enum. 157. C. P. 1665. 



Fl. B. Ind. iii. 125. Griff. Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 478 (repeated at t. 644 a). 



Small tree or shrub, branchlets stout, somewhat thickened 

 at nodes, sub-quadrangular, glabrous, young parts exuding a 

 resinous secretion ; 1. 2-2J in., obovate-oval, tapering to base, 

 rounded at apex, glabrous, rather fleshy, obscurely veined,, 

 petiole I in., readily disarticulating, stip. short, rounded; fl. 

 small, on very short ped., cymes small, on short peduncles,, 

 cal.-limb glabrous, almost truncate ; cor.-tube hairy within, 

 lobes shorter than tube, ovate, acute; anth. exserted; drupe 

 small, about J in., crowned with persistent cal.-limb, obovate- 

 ovoid, slightly compressed, with 8 (or 10?) thick, blunt, ver- 

 tical ridges, glabrous, pyrenes crustaceous. 



Mangrove swamps; rare. Only seen from Jaffna (Gardner). Fl. 

 white. 



Occurs also on the Carnatic coast, Malaya, Andamans, N. Australia, 

 and New Caledonia. 



Remarkably like Lumnitzera, with which it grows. 



29. GUETTARDA, L. 



Small tree, stip. ovate, caducous ; fl. large, unisexual or poly- 

 gamous, in long-stalked axillary cymes; cal.-limb tubular-cup- 

 -.htpcd, truncate, deciduous; cor. densely pubescent, tube long, 

 lobes 5-9, imbricate; stam. same number as pet, inserted in 

 cor.-tube, fil. o; ov. 5-9-celled with a single pendulous ovule 

 in each cell, stigma capitate; fruit a drupe, stone woody, with 

 5 9 sharp angles, and as many cells. — Sp. 45, all, but this one, 

 American only. 



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