Pygmml] li. EOSACBiE. (J. D. Hooker.) 319 



'2. '-P. ^laberrimum, Hook.f. ; leaves oblong-lanceolate caudate-acumi- 

 nate quite glabrous, basal glands or obscure, racemes slender and petioles gla- 

 brous. P. acuminatum, Het-b. Ind. O. M.f. 8f T. 



Eastern tropical Himalaya, SncxiM, alt. 3-5000 ft., J. D. H. Khasia Mts., alt. 

 3-4000 ft., Simmonds, etc. CHrrrAooNB, J. D. H. ^ T. T. 



A branching tree, 30-50 ft., glabrous in all its parts, smelling strongly when 

 bruised of prussie acid. Leaves 4-9 in., base rounded or acute, opaque beneath, with 

 a few large scattered glands or ; nerves spreading and arching ; petiole | in. Ea- 

 cemes numerous, erect ; rachis and pedicels slender. Cah/x-ttibe obeonic ; limb ob- 

 scurely 6-sinuate, disk pubescent at the base. Petals 6, oblanceolate, obtuse, hooded, 

 quite glabrous. Ovary puberulous, soon glabrate ; style slender, exserted, nearly 

 straight; stigma capitate. FVuit on a much elongated thickened peduncle, 1 in. 

 transversely. — Except for the perfectly glabrous inflorescence and petals, this closely 

 resembles P. acummattim. 



3. P. 'Wie'txtiatmnifSlume, Melanges Bot. 1855,11.2 (ex Walp.Ann.if. 

 €42) ; leaves rounded-oblong or elliptic obtuse with two large glands at or near the 

 base, racemes stout pubescent, petals 5-6 tomentose. Thwaites Eniim. 102. P. 

 ceylanicum, Bedd. Flor. Sylvat. t. 69, excl. synon. Polyodontia ? ceylanica, 

 Wight, ni. i. 203 ; Ic. t. 256. 



Westebn Peninsula ; Anamallay, Shevarry, Pulney and Tinevelly ranges, Bed- 

 ■dorae. Cbyxon ; central province, alt. 4-8009 ft., Wight, etc. 



A middle-sized tree, glabrous except the young shoots and iniioresoence, which are 

 pubescent with dense appressed hairs. Leaves 3-4 in., coriaceous, base rounded or 

 subacute; nerves arched, spreading, prominent beneath; petiole J-^ in. Racemes 

 '2-4 in. ; axillary, rachis and peduncle stout ; pedicels sometimes J in. long. Flowers 

 J in. diam. Calyx-tuhe oboonic or turbinate ; limb 5- rarely 4- or 6-lobed, lobes 

 acute. Petals 4-6, oblong, tip rounded, softly tomentose. Stamens about 20. Ovary 

 quite glabrous ; style stout. Fruit f in. transversely, on very stout pedicels. 



Vae. parvifolium, Thwaites Enum. 103 ; leaves smaller sometimes lanceolate, 

 racemes shorter, pedicels very short, flowers smaller, stamens fewer, fruit ^ in. trans- 



4. P. lanceolatum, Hook. f. ; leaves eUiptic-lanceolate obtusely' acumi- 

 nate, basal glands narrow oblong, racemes rarely axillary, short few-flowered 

 pubescent, bracts deciduous, petals 6 lineaivlanceolate hairy. 



SlNCAPOHE, IM). 



Branches very slender, young ones and petioles puberulous with appressed hairs. 

 Leaves 3-4 in., base very acute, rather glaucous beneath ; nervesvery oblique, midrib 

 with a few silky hairs ; petiole J-f in., slender. Sacemes |-| in. chiefly on the 

 branches below the leaves, about 10-fiowered, pubescent, sometimes almost globose, 

 subsessile ; pedicels J in. Flowers J in. diam. Calyx-tvbe turbinate, limb very shortly 

 lobed. Stemeas about 12 ; style slander. 0«ary perfectly glabrous. ifVwi! not seen. 

 ■ —Differs from P. persimiie, Sxaz, in the pedicels and glabrous ovary. 



5. P. /DXain^ayii Hook.f.; leaves eUiptic-laneeolate acuminate, basal 

 glands obscure or 0, racemes very short axillary solitary densely pubescent, 

 bracts persistent, calyx 6-lobed, petals 0. 



Maiacca, Maingay {Herb. Kew, 626), 



Branchlets very slender. Leaves 2-3 in., rather coriaceous, base acute, nerves 

 very faint spreading and arched, perfectly glabrous on both surfaces ; petiole \ in., 

 slender, glabrous. Racemes ^ in. almost globose, rusty tomentose ; pedicels very 

 short, exeeding the oblong bracts. Gah/x-tuhe obeonic, glabrous within ; lobes oblong, 

 obtuse, villous. S<a»8««s about 15, filament slender. Ovary small, often abortive 

 and slender, style glabrous. Fruit size of a large pea, . nearly globose, with a sharp 

 mucronate apex. 



