96 GUTTIFERZ, . [ Kayea. 
at, base, on a rather strong petiole nearly an in. long, 5-6 in. long, 
onicd or retuse, firmly chartaceous, glabrous ; flowers about an in. 
in diameter, white, fragrant, on slender about an in. long glabrous 
pedicels forming axillary glabrous racemes of the length of the 
leaves or somewhat shorter ; ; the 2 inner ee — petals 4, 
rarely 6-8 ; berries the size of a bullet, glo 
Has. —Froquent — the sandy sea-shores, in os beach jungles of the 
Andamans and Ten m; often also cultivated in villages.—l.—SS.—Aren 
RemMakks. Ss ue h-brown, broadly striate, rather close-grained, heavy 
O'=63 pd.—Good for masts, spars, railway ‘sleepers, machinery, &e. 
KAYEA, Wall. 
obpsabi hermaphrodite. Sepals and petals 4 each, imbricate. 
Stamens numerous, free or connate at base; anthers almost globu- 
lar, 2-celled, dehiscing vertically. Ovary l-celled with 4 erect 
ovules ; style slender, terminated bya 4-cleft stigma. Fruit almost 
drupaceous, fleshy, ‘indehiscent, 1-4-seeded.—Trees, with simple 
leaves and solitary or panicled flowers. 
Flowers in terminal panicles . ‘ : .” . K. floribunda, 
Flowers by 1-3 in the leaf-axils and terminal . . K, nervosa 
1. K. floribunda, Wall.; H-f. Ind. FL i 276. —A large ever- 
green tree (60—80+ 35—40 +45), all parts Ast leaves. 
inch 
acuminate, 5-8 in. long, coriaceous, smooth, the lateral nerves 
beneath arched and prominent ; flowers white, about an inch across, 
on strong pedicels furnished with 2 bisal bractlets, formiag a stout, 
but lax glabrous panicle at the end of the branches and branchlets; 
sepals almost orbicular ; petals little longer than the sepals, white 
with rosy Tested, ; anthers golden-yellow ; drupes the size of a 
cherry, 1-seeded, covered by the thick, wrinkled, yellow, much- 
— sepals. 
ather rare in the tropical forests of the pariaten hills east of 
cee at about 2,500 to 3,000 ft. elevation. SS. = Met. 
2. K. nervosa, T. And.; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 277.—An evergreen 
tree, all parts glabrous, the branchlets tubercled-rough ; leaves 
oblong to elipealy oblong, shortly petioled, rounded or ‘slightly 
emarginate at base, 2-4 in. long, abrupt y acuminate, hope 
thinly, but rigidly coriaceous ; flowers 13 in. in diameter, on a tuber- 
 eled 1-2 in. long pedicel, solitary, or by 2-3 a the axils of the ae 
or at the end of the branchlets ; outer sepals $ in. long, thick and 
pes almost globular, the size of a cherry, 
» Supported ae gomewhat enlarged coriaceous calyx 
"Tas. —enaesrin— Fr. ‘Apr. 
ee almost sorbicalay, the inner nearly twice as long; petals . 
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