Parrotia 



XLYIII. HAMAMELIDAi ' K. 1 •; 



3U1 



stamens usually 1"), free. Capsule i in. long, woolly, with stellate toinentuui, 

 girt by the adhering calyx-tube, 2-celled, the cells separating when ripe, 

 each cell with one seed in a hard horny endocarp, which opens at the top by 

 two rostrate valves. Embryo oblique in copious albumen. 



Kuram valley (abundant, used for the wicker work, of which the walls of houses 

 consist ). Kashmir and Chamba, 3,800-8,500 ft. Fl. March-Ma y, the leaves turn yellow 

 before falling. The twigs are ussd for binding and basket work, they are the 1"--' 

 material for making the twig bridges to cross the rivers of the Punjab Himalaya. 



Distylium indicum, Benth. Khasi hills. A small tree, I. coriaceous, 3-5 in., acumi- 

 nate, stipules lanceolate, deciduous. Fl. polygamous, in short upright axillary racemes. 

 Fruit (unripe) lam late, j in. long, densely stellate-tomentose. 



Sycopsis Grifflthiana, Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxiii. t 8. Khasi hills. Leaves 



eoriai us. 2—4 in., acuminate, stipules minute, caducous. Fl. unisexual, in small 



axillary heads, 3 and J in the same head, ovary, lower half adnate to, upper half 

 closely surrounded by calyx-tube. Capsule nearly globose, S in. iliam., stellately 

 tomentose. 



2. CORYLOPSIS, Sieb. & Zucc. : Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. 127. 

 Species 4—6, all except the following in China aud Japan.) • 



C. himalayana, Griff", in Jmini. As. Soc. xxiii. Gil. : Ie. PI. As. t. 633. 



A large shrub or small tree, branchlets, pet ioles and underside of leaves softly 

 stellate - tomentose, I. broad- 

 ovate, often nearly orbicular, 

 serrate, base more or less cor- 

 date, sec. n. oblique, nearly 

 straight, parallel, the outer 

 branching on the outside, sti- 

 pules lanceolate, almost glab- 

 rous, deciduous. PL bisexual. 



penti irons, yellow, scented, in 



drooping densely silky cat kin- 

 like spikes, each il. in the axil 



of a large conca \ e bract. ( 'alvx- 



tube adnate to ovary, petals 

 spal Imlate. stamens 5, u ith a 

 number of scales (sterile sta- 

 mens). Ovary half inferior. 

 C8 psulc woodj . | in. iliam. 



Bhutan, 5 8,000 ft. Khasi hills. 

 Manipur. Fl. 1 March. 



Loropetalum chinense, Oliver, As- 

 sam, K hasi li ill-, china. An ever- 

 green shrub, I. entire, branchlets, 

 young leaves and inflorescence 

 stellatelj pubescent, leaves I :■ in. 

 lone. Fl. greenish-w hue. bisexual, 

 tei ramei"ous, 6 8 in small beads a( 



tl ad's of le:ii'\ branchlets. 



Petals linear, | in. long. Ovary half-inferior, capsule ovoid, woody, | in. lone. 



Fio. 129. i lorj lopsis himn i aa, Gri if. \. 



3. BUCKLANDIA. Rob. Brown; PL Brit. Ind. ii. 129. 



B. populnea, K. Br. (the<bnlj species': Kurz. P. PI. i. 1 1">. Vera. Pipli, 

 1 (arjeeliug. 



A tall tree, loaves thickly coriaceous, glabrous, rarelj pubescent beneath 



along nerves, broadly ovate, nearly orbicular. npo\ acuminate, sometimes with 

 ;5 cuspidate lilies, basal nerves ."i 7. blade "• '■'. petiole I :! in. long. Stipules 



