Dichilanthe^ RllblClCetE. 33a 



Moist region, rarely in the low country, principally in the lower mon- 

 tane zone, but extending up to 6000 ft.; common. Fl. March, April, 

 September ; yellow. 



Also in the Andamans, Malaya, and Mauritius, but not in Peninsular 

 India. 



The genus Timonius dates only from 1830, and should rightly be 

 superseded by Nelitris (1788); for Gaertner's figure of the fruit (t. 27, f. 5) 

 shows that this was the plant intended. He has in the text, however, 

 confused it with some Eugenia, the specimens having been named ' Wal- 

 jambu.' The name thus became applied by Decandolle to a genus of 

 Myrtaceae (properly Decaspermum, Forst.). 



31. DICKILANTHE, Thw. 



A tree, stip. connate into a ring, persistent; fl. large, in 

 terminal heads; cal.-limb tubular, curved, with 5 hairy scales 

 at the mouth, segm. 5, longer than tube, slightly unequal; cor. 

 irregular, curved, tubular below, funnel-shaped above, 2-lipped, 

 upper lip 2-toothed, lower lip 3-toothed ; stam. 5, inserted near 

 mouth of cor., disk large, annular, fleshy; ov. 2-celled with 

 1 pendulous ovule in each cell, style very long, stigma clavate, 

 bilobed ; " fruit obovoid, gibbous, 2-celled, pericarp thick." — 

 There is a second species in Borneo. 



This genus with its irregular cor. might well stand in Caprifoliacece, 

 ■where Thw. and Beddome, and at one time J. D. Hooker, placed it. 



D. zeylanica, Thw. i)i Kew Jonrn. Bol. viii. 270 (1856). 

 Thw. Enum. 136. C. P. 3422. 



Fl. B. Ind. iii. 128. Kew Journ. Bot. viii. t. 8, f. A. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 

 Anal. Gen. t. 1 5, f. 4. 



A tree, usually small, branchlets stout, swollen at nodes, 

 bark smooth, grey; 1. 4-6 in., lanceolate, acute at base, shortly 

 acuminate at apex, quite glabrous, coriaceous (with fine raised 

 reticulation when dry), petiole very short, stout, stip. short, 

 truncate ; fl. sessile, about 6-8 together in a very shortly 

 stalked terminal head and the cal.-tubes glued together with 

 resinous exudation ; cal.-segm. linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 spreading; cor. \\-\\ in., strongly curved downwards, silky 

 outside, lips short; fil. short, anth. small, oblong; style much 

 exserted; fruit not seen. 



t low country; very rare. On the summits of Hiniduma Kande 

 and Nillowe Kande; Bambarabotuwa, Sabaragamuwa. Fl. March- 

 June; scarlet. 



Endemic. 



A very remarkable and anomalous plant; the persistent ring-like stip. 

 become coated with resin, and form nodosities on the branches. 



