Oa^alUa.] ivii. EHizopHOEEiE. (G. Henslow,) 43& 



6. C£LS.AJ.X,IA, Boxb. 



Trees and shrubs. Leaves petiolate, ovate or elliptic. Peduncles short, rather 

 thick. Flowers smaJl/ in short 3-chotomous axillary branching cymes, sessile 

 and often crowded. Calyx-tuAe minutely hracteate at the hase ; limb 5-8-lobed, 

 campaniilate ; lobes erect, short, valvate. Petals 5-8, inserted on the margin of 

 a crenulated disk lining the calyx-tube, clawed, orbicular, 2-fld or entire, sub- 

 serrate or lacerate at the apex. Bisk epigynous, 10-16-lobed. Stamens in- 

 serted with the petals, filaments filiform ; anthers small, oblong. Style subulate 

 or filiform. Fi-uit small, globose, coriaceous, 1-celled, 1-seeded. Seed globose^ 

 reniform ; testa fibrous ; embryo curved. — Disxeib. Species about 7, natives of 

 the Indian Ocean. ' 



1. C. integ'errinxa, BC.^Prodr. iii. 33 ; leaves quite entire or rarely 

 serrulate towards the apex obovate elliptic or oblong, flowers usually 8-merous 

 cymoso-capitate, petals not embracing the filaments. Wight HI. t. 90 ; Benth. 

 in Journ. lAnn. Soc. iii. 67 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. cxciii. ; Dalz. Sr Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 

 95 ; Brand. For. Fl. 219. 0. ceylanica, corymbosa and sinensis, Am. in Tayl. 

 Ann. Nat. Hist. i. 371. 0. lucida, Kurz For. Fl. Brit. Burm. i. 451 ; Wall. 

 Cat. 4880 ; Wight Ic. t. 605. 0. timorensis, Blume Mus. Bot. i. 128 {ex char.). 

 0. oetopetela, F. Muell. PI. Aust. Trop. Occid. 0. symmetrica, Blume Mus. 

 Bot. i. 130. Pootia cereopsifolia, Miq. PI. JSbchst. 



Torests of the outer Slkjcim Himaiaya, Benoai, Assam, Silhet, Buemah, both 

 Peninsulas and Cexlon. — Disteib. Malay Archipelago, China, Australia. 



An evergreen tree -with very lucid foliage. Flowers small, white. Berry glohose, 

 sizeof a peppercorn, usually 1-seeded. — The leaves vary excessively. The Cingalese spe- 

 cimens are often all obovate and very obtuse ; in some Chinese and Philippine Islands 

 ones they are narrow-oblong and acuminate j in the majority from the greater paitof 

 the area, viz., Ceylon and the Indian Peninsulas, China, the Indian Archipelago and 

 N. "W. Australia, they are elliptic-ovate. Bentham (Journ. Linn. Soc. 1. c.) has shown 

 good cause for setting aside Boxburgh's specific name of C. lucida. 



2. C. lanceaefolla, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 481 ; leaves elliptic or oblong regu- 

 larly serrulate, flowers 6-8-merous subcapitate, petals embracing the filaments. 

 Wight Ic. iii. t. 604 ; Kurz For. Fl. Brit. Burm. i. 437 ; Wight Ic. t. 604. 

 0. conflnis, Blume Mus. Bot. i. 129. 0. lucida, Boxb. Cor. PL iii. t. 211 ; Wight 

 Ic. iii. t. 605. 0. lanceolaria, Wall. Cat. 4881. 



Tropical forests of Tbnassekim, Kurz. — Disteib. Sumatra. 

 Ci/mes less crowded than in the last species. Petals reniform, crenulate. Fruit 

 larger than the preceding, turbinato-globose, 2-3-seeded. 



3. C calycina, Thwaites Enum. 121 ; leaves ovate or elliptical quite 

 entire, peduncles rather long dichotomous, cymes slightly branching above the 

 middle. 



Cetlon, Singh Eajah forest, between Galle and Eatnapoora, at no great elevation, 

 Thwaites. 



A great tree. Leaves lJ-3 by 1-1| in., ovate, shortly acuminate, narrowed at the 

 base, punctate beneath ; petiole ^\ in. ; stipules about J in. very deciduous. Brac- 

 teoles rounded, retuse, often mucronate, about ^ in. Flowers subsessile, \ in. diam. 

 Calyx-lobes 4, equalling the tube. Petals broadly cordate, clawed, margin inciso- 

 sinuate. Ovary 4-celled ; stigma crenate. 



Vab. ;8. Thwaites 1. o. ; leaves shorter more rounded and coriaceous. Central Pro- 

 vince, alt. 4-5000 ft., Thwaites. 



