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XVI. TERNSTRGEMIACEjE 



[Cleyera 



the enumeration of Chinese plants, Journ. Linn. Soc. xxiii. 76, has white petals, other- 

 wise there is no difference. C. grandiflora, Hook. fil. & Thorns. Khasi hills, with 

 larger leaves and usually solitary flowers is perhaps not specifically distinct. 



4. EURYA, Thunb. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 284. 



Shrubs or small trees. Leaves mostly serrate. PI. dioecious, sepals and petals 

 imbricate, petals united at base, stamens 12-15, attached to the base of the 

 corolla, anthers adnate. Ovary mostly 3-celled, styles 3, distinct or partially 

 united. Fruit indehiscent, seeds numerous, small, angular, albumen copious, 

 oily. 



1. E. japonica, Thunb. ; Xurz, F. Fl. i. 101. ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 92.— Syn. 

 E. Wightiana, Wight 111. t. 38. Vern. JJiingni, Nep. ; Huluni, Nilgiris ; 

 Taung lapet, Taw lapel [loild tea), Burni. 



A shrub or a small tree ; prominent raised lines on branchlets descending on 

 both sides from the insertion of leaves. Leaves 2—5 in., lanceolate or ovate- 

 lanceolate, obtusely serrate, glabrous, rarely pubescent while young. Fl. 

 small, white, on short nodding pedicels, 2 or 3 together, rarely solitary, in the 

 axils of leaves, sepals quite glabrous, style deeply 3- rarely 4-5-cleft, berries 

 numerous, the size of a peppercorn, mucronate. 



Outer Himalaya, from Sikkim eastwards, 3,000-6,000 ft., Western Ghats and hills 

 adjoining them, from Kanara southwards. Hills of Upper and Lower Burma. Fl. 

 throughout the year, chiefly E,. S. Also Ceylon, from 4,000 ft. upwards, Malay 

 Archipelago, China, Japan, Korea, Fiji Islands. 



2. E. acuminata, DC; Royle 111. t, 25. Vern. Sanu jhingni, Xep. 

 Supposed to differ from E. japonica by young shoots being hairy, by more 



narrowly lanceolate leaves, often hairy beneath, and by the flowers in dense 

 fascicles of 5 or more. In the F. Fl. of North-West and. Central India, p. 24, 

 I united them ; Kurz, Trimen and the Flora of Brit. Ind. keep them separate. 



Outer Himalaya, from the Jumna eastwards, 3,000-9,000 ft., Khasi-hills, Chittagong. 

 Burma hills, often in Pinus kasya forests. Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. 

 3. E. symplocina, Blume, Sikkim 5,000-7,000 ft., Bhutan, Assam, Khasi, and Ivaga hills, 

 Manipur, Burma, is a middle-sized tree. Leaves 3-5 in., secondary nerves 8-12 pair, 

 fairly distinct, peduncles silky, sepals silky outside, styles united. 4. E. trichocarpa, 

 Korth. Khasi hills, Bhutan, Amhoina. Pubescent, ovary densely silky, styles united 

 to | of their length. 



5. ANNESLEA, Wall. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 280. 



Fig. 25. — Anneslea fragrans. Wall. Fruit cut open. J. 



A. fragrans, Wall. : 

 PI. As. Bar. t. 5, the 



only species : Pierre, 

 Fl. For. t. 127. 



A moderate-sized 

 tree. Leaves crowded 

 at the ends of branches, 

 3-5 in., narrowed into 

 petiole 1 in. long, 

 secondary nerves indis- 

 tinct. Fl. white, 

 peduncles 2-3 in. Sta- 

 mens co , glabrous, 

 anthers long-apiculate, 

 torus enlarged, cup- 

 shaped, passing into a 

 calyx tube adnate to 

 the 3-celled ovary, 



