Parinarium.'l li. rosace^.. (J. D. Hooker.). 309 



Petals 5, sessile or clawed, deciduous. Stamens 6-00 , filaments united into an 

 incomplete ring at the base, or connate into an unilateral bundle, aU perfect or 

 some -without anthers. Carpels 1 (rarely 2), adnate to one side of the calyx- 

 tjibe, 1-2-celled ; style basal, filiform ; ovules 2 collateral or 1 erect. Drwpe 

 spherical oblong obovoid- or ovoid, with a 1-2-celled 1-2-seeded coriaceous 

 woody or bony stone. Seeds erect, testa membranous, cotyledons large fleshy, 

 radicle small inferior. — Distkib. About 40 species, natives of the teopics of 

 both worlds. 



The Indian species of Farmarium are very imperfectly known and are probably 

 referable to several genera distinguishable by their fruit more than by any floral 

 character. Of these, P. costatum, polyneurum, oblongifolium and mvltijlorum, may 

 form one genus witi a 2-eelled 2-seeded drupaceous fruit and short stamens. 

 P. nttid/um another, with 1-celled hardly drupaceous coriaceous fruit and short 

 stamens ; and P. asperuhi/m a third, with a globose 1-celled very hard drupe, 

 glabrous, containing a solitary large glabrous seed with a solid ruminated em- 

 bryo. The seeds of P. indiev/m and iravanconcmn are unknown. P. Jackiamim, 

 Benth. (Petrocarya excelsa, Jack), must, if Jack's account of the drupe being included 

 in the enlarged calyx and having superposed cells be correct, constitute a fourth 

 genus. 



Sttbgen. 1. Grymania, Presl, {Gem.) Leaves eglandular or 2-glandular 

 aX the base. Stamens equalling or shorter than the calyx-lobes, forming an 

 imperfect ring. Di-wpe oblong or obovoid with a very thick 2-celled stone, 

 ihe cells lined vyith soft wool. 



* Leaves eylandvlar at the base, grey m- dirty white beneath, with numerous 

 ■stout veins. Stamens 6-10, singularly inserted. 



1. P. costatum, Blumel; leaves 2-4 in. ellipiac-oblong obtusely 

 acuminate shining above, base acute, nerves 8-10 pair, petiole rather slender. 

 Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. i. part 1, 354. ?P. Sumatranum, Benth. in Hooh. 

 Niger Flora, 335. Miquel I. e. 353. Kurz, For. Flor. Brit. Burm. i. 4-83. 

 Peti'ocarya svmiatrana. Jack, Med. il^isc. ii. 67. 



Eastern Peninsula, Maiacca, and Government Hill, Penakg, Maingay. 

 ? Burma, Kwrs. — Distbib. Sumatra. 



A tree 1.5 feet (in Penang). Braiuihes slender ; bark pale in the Malacca spB- 

 «imens, dark with minute lenticels in the Penang one ; petiole \-^ in. Panicle effuse, 

 much branched, clothed with soft tomentum; branches slender; bracts oblong- 

 lanceolate. Mowers | in. long, shortly pedicelled. Calyx-tube clothed within with 

 long deflexed hairs ; tube longer than the lobes. Petals obovate, ciliate, equalling 

 the calyx-lobes. Carpels 2 ; ovaries densely tomentose. Fruit (of Penang specimen) 

 1-1^ in. long, rounded at the apex, when dry minutely wrinkled and covered with 

 white scurfy spots. Seeds not seen. — But for the smaller leaves with more acuminate 

 points, they agree with P. sumatranum, Benth. I have seen no specimen of Blume's 

 P. costatum. 



2. P. polyneurum, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 306; leaves 4-8 in. 

 ■elliptic-oblong obtusely acuminate shining above, base rounded, nerves 12-16 

 fair, petiole rather slender. 



Malacca, Griffith; Maingay (Kew Herb., 622). — Distbib. Sumatra. 



A larger plant than P. costatum, differing in the form and size of the leaves and 

 number of nerves ; the inflorescence and flower are very similar indeed ; the bark of 

 the branches is black with numerous lenticels, which is hardly the case in the 

 ■Sumatran specimens. 



3. P. oblpng'ifolium, Hodk.f. ; leaves 6-10 in. oblong or linear-oblong 



