Swintonia] 



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coast, luit also inland, common 

 on the hill east of Toungoo at 

 2,000 ft. Fl. December-March. 

 2. S. Helferi, on rocky islands 

 of the Mergui Archipelago. L. 

 narrow-lanceolate, blade 6-10, 

 petiole 1-2 in. long, sec n. 21 -'.V> 

 pair. 



9. HOLIGARNA, Ham.: 

 Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. 3G. 



Lofty trees. L. more or 

 less coriaceous, petiolate, sim- 

 ple, quite entire, crowded at 

 the ends of branches, petioles 

 mostly with 2 or 4 spur-like r 

 deciduous appendages. Fl. 

 small, usually sessile, dioeci- 

 ous, pentamerous, in axillary 

 or terminal racemes or pani- 

 cles. Calyx superior, tube 

 cup-shaped, petals densely 

 villous. Stamens 5, inserted 

 on the edge of the disk, which 

 in the <Jf flower lines the 

 calyx-tube, lilum. glabrous, 

 subulate, anthers small, 

 nearly globose. Ovary in- 

 ferior 1 -celled, styles '.',-'>, 

 terminal. Drupe oblong or 

 Ovoid, on Stalks elongating 

 after flowering, resinous, 

 acrid, endocarp coriaceous. 



A. Western species. 



I. H. Arnottiana, Hook. Fig. 90.— Swintonia floribunda, Griff. A. 



f. i 1876).— Syn.JT. longifolia, 



W. et A.: Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 167. Vera. HoTigar, Hulgeri, Katugeri, Kan.: 

 h'nt/ii clnrii. Tarn.; Cheru, Mai. 



A large evergreen tree, with bhiek acrid resinous juice, young shoots rusty- 

 tomentose. L. cuneate, obtuse or acute, blade 6-1 (i, narrowed into petiole J-l in. 

 long. see. n. Ill '3 I pair. Fl. ,'. in. long, rusty tomentose within and without, 

 fasciculate, in axillary sparingly branched racemiform panicles, anthers red. 

 Drupe glabrous, obliquely oblong, stalk 1 in. long. 



Evergreen forests of the western coasts and the Western Ghats, from the Konkan 

 southti ards. i 'oorg, Nilgiris. Common in the low eounl ry of Travancore. PI. January 

 March. H.ferrugtnea, Marchand 1869), is supposed to differ by racemes shorter, more 

 robust and less branched, clothed with red tomen turn, and larger Bowers, Mr Bourdillon 



reports a new species from il vergreen forests of Travanc al 2,000 ft. and higher, 



with smaller leaves, not exc ling o' in., see. a. 6 9 pair, panicles slender, up to 12 in. 



long. Fl. smaller, black, bairj outside, while inside thej are quite white, clothed with 

 white hairs, anthers black. 



'_'. H. Grahamii, Hook. f. (Semecarpua Qrahamii, Wighl Ic. i. 285). Evergreen forests 

 of the Western Ghats, from the Konkan southwards. Hotclagerri, Kaans ol Sorub, 

 Mysore (D.B. April 1868). A middle-sized or large tree, I., softly pubescent beneath, 

 ohlanceolate, long-acuminate, often abrupt ly narrowed from the middle, blade 12 16 in., 



petiole thick, J in. lone. Panicles terminal, much branched. Drupe ; in. long, thr 



fourths enclosed in the calyx, '■'■■ H. Beddomei, Hook. f. Anamalai hills. A verj large 

 tree. Young shoots and underside of leaves densely tomentose « ith long rufous I 

 blade 10 22 inches, narrowed into petiole J. I in., spurs tomentose, soft, nol rigid. 



