.] Lvii. EHizoPHOEEJ!. (G. Henslow.) 441 



longer than the sepals. Stamens 16-30, inserted on the margin of the disk ; 

 filaments filiform ; anthers oblong. Ovary superior, 3-5-furrowed, 2-4-oelled ; 

 style filiform, stigma with 2-4 radiating lobes ; ovules 2 in each cell, collateral, 

 pendulous. Fruit globose, fleshy, 2-4rcelled, septioidally but slowly dehiscing 

 into 2-4 valves ; cells 1-2-seeded. Seeds arillate, ovoid, subtrigonal, testa cori- 

 aceous ; embryo straight, cotyledons elliptical, radicle terete. — Disteib. . Species 

 5, natives of 8. and Trop. Africa, Madagascar and Ceylon. 



1. W. ceylanica, BaUl. Adans. iii. 38. Anstrutheria zeylanica, Gard, 

 in Cede. Joum. Nat. Hist. vi. 344, t. 4 ; Thwaites Enum. 121 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 

 t. exciv. 



Maisoe and Carnatic, Wight, &c. Ceylon, GaUe District, Trincomalee, &c., at 

 no great elevation. 



A very_ much branched shrub or small tree. Branohes terete. Lewees 3-3J by 

 1 J in., petioled, glabrous, acuminate, rounded at the base, green and shining above, 

 pale beneath, nerves reticulate prominent on both surfaces ; petiole about ^ in. Pe- 

 dimcles solitary or in pairs, shorter than the petioles. Flower-buds of full size six 

 months before opening. Calyx-limb 4-fid; segments ovate, acute, persistent, densely 

 •covered ■with adpressed hairs, valvate. Petals 4, hypogyuous, cuneate, imbricated in 

 bud. Stamens about 30, hypogynous ; anthers erect, cordate, obtuse. Ovary supe- 

 rior, 3-celled ; style simple, persistent. Serri/ thick, spongy. Wmhryo in the axis of 

 fleshy albumen ; cotyledons flat, veined ; radicle thick, elongated and directed upwards. 



9. BXiEFKiVRXSTEllEiaA, Wall. 



A shrub ? Leaves opposite, petioled, membranous, elliptic-oblong, acuminate, 

 crenately-toothed ; stipules small, caducous. Flowers in 2-3-chotomous many- 

 iSowered axillary cymes, polygamo-dioecious. Ccdyx-tuhe ovoid, ebracteolate ; 

 lobes 4, minute, triangular, erect. Petals 4, twice the length of the calyx, in- 

 serted round a disk at the base of the calyx-tube, clawed ; tips lacerate, bisk 

 free; of the male, 8- toothed; of the female often cleft. Stamens 8, inserted 

 upon the margin of the disk ; in the female small, filaments ciliated ; anthers 

 small, oblong. Ovary obtusely subtrigonal, contracted at the base, ovoid, free, 

 S-celled ; cells 2-ovuled ; style of the female flower longer than the calyx, 

 stigma obsoletely 3-lobed. Fruit unknown. 



1. B. corymbosum, Wall. Cat. 6320 ; Senth. in Joum. Linn. Soe. iii. 

 78 ; Sedd. Fl. Sylv. Anal. Gen. PI. xiv. fig. 2. Dryptopetalum membranaceum, 

 Miq. in PI. Sbhenack. n. 713. 



Wbsteen Peninsttla, Heyne, &c. 



Glabrous, excepting the inflorescence and buds. Leaves 1 J-2J in. ; stipules lan- 

 ceolate, membranous, pubescent. Calyx minutely roughened above. Stamens ciliated 

 like the claws of the petals. Disk almost entirely free from the calyx. Ovary nar- 

 row, empty ; style short. Petals in the female flowers, shorter. Stamens less ; anthers 

 small, effete ? Disk smaller. Style longer than the calyx. 



10. ANXSOPKVZiXiEA, Br. 



Trees and shrubs, glabrous, young parts silky. Leaves ,exstipulate, dis- 

 tichous ; alternate ones smaller or minute, and often stipuliform or P, oblique, 

 "Ovate lanceolate or elliptic, with 8-5 main nerves branching from the base, 

 quite entire. Flowers minute in axillary simple or fascicled spikes, ebracteate or 

 minutely bracteolate bi- or unisexual. Calyx-tube ovoid, annate to the ovary, 

 terete or ribbed ; limb 4-fid, lobes erect. Petds 4, small, involute^_ entire, lobed 

 or lacerate. Stamens 8, filaments short, subulate ; anthers small, didymous, pro- 



