Ehodamnia.] lix. myetaojsji. (J. V. Dathie.) 469 



fewer 2 or solitary. E. speetabilis, Blume Mies. Bot. i. 78 ; Miq, I. e. 479 ; Kttre I.e. 

 B. cinerea, Jack in Mai. Misc. Monoxora speetabilis, Wight 111. ii. 12, t. 97*, f. S. 

 E. Nageli, Mic[. I.e. E. subtriflora and E. MuUeri, Bl. I.e. 79. 



6. XlKODOBIYaTUS, DC. 



Trees or tomentose shrubs. Leaves opposite, 6- or 3-nerved. Flow&-sxa.Va.eic 

 toge, axillary. CcHyx-tvhe turbinate, oblong or subglobose, hardly produced 

 above the ovary ; lobes 5 rarely 4, herbaceous, persistent. Petals 5, rarely 4, 

 ■spreading. Stamens oo, free, in many series. Ovary 1- 2- 3-celled with spuri- 

 ous partitions, or divided into numerous 1-ovuled superposed cells ; style fili- 

 form, stigma capitate. Berry drupelike, globose or ovoid, with few or numerous 

 seeds not distinctly superposed in rows. Seeds compressed, reniform or nearly 

 ■orbicular, horizontal, teste hard ; embryo curved or spiral, radicle very long, 

 cotyledons small. — Dibtkib. 5 species, 4 of them inhsibitants of E. Australia, 

 and 1 widely distributed over Tropical Asia, especially throughout the Indian 

 Archipelago as far as China. 



1. B. tomentosa, Wigltt Spidl. NeXlgh. i. 60, t. 71 ; branches downy 

 above slightly compressed, leaves elliptic or obovate obtuse shortly petioled 

 •3-nerved hoary on the underside with soft tomentum, peduncles axillary shorter 

 than the leaves 1-3-fl., flowers with 2 ovate bracteoles at the base, calyx 

 tomentose 5-cleft, lobes unequal, berry oval or subglobose 3-celled, seeds com- 

 pressed forming 2 rows in each ceU. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 477 ; Benth. 

 Fl. Hongh. 121 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. Anal. Gen. t. xiv. Myrtus tomentosa. Ait. ; 

 DC. Proir. iii. 240; Vahl Symb. ii. 66; Blume Bijdr. 1081 ; W. 4- A. Prodr. 

 i. 328 ; Wight III. ii. 12, t. 97*, f. 3, Ic. 622 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 498 ; Wall. 

 Cat. 3630; Korth. in Ned. Kruidh. Arch. i. 197. M, canescens. Lour. Fl. 

 Cochinc. i. 311. 



Wbsteeik Peninsula, Pulney Hills, Beddome ; Nilghiris, Adam. Eastebn Pen- 

 insula, Malacca, Griffith. Maingay ; Sutcapoee and Penang, Thomson, Anderson. 

 iCbtlon, alt. 6-8000 ft., WaXker, ^c. 



A shrub, 4-S ft. ; young parts clothed with thick tomentum. Lower leaves in 

 threes, upper ones and those of the branches opposite, 1-21 in. ^rjth 3 or rarely 5 pro- 

 minent nerves starting from^ near the base, dark brown above, at length glabrous and 

 shining, hoary beneath and rugose. Peduncles about half the length of the leaves, 

 hearing 1-3 large pink flowers ^f.in. across. Petals downy outside, shortly clawed. 

 Berry about the size of a cherry, dark purple, pulp fleshy, sweet and aromatic. — Col. 

 Beddome says that this is abundant on the higher mountains in the Madras Presi- 

 dency, and is known at Ootacamund as " Hill Gooseberry." The fruit is eaten raw, 

 or made into jam called "Thaonty." Its wood is white -with pink heart, the grain 

 ■olose and cutting like cheese, but splitting when seasoned ; useful for small turnery. 



7. SECASPEKmiriHC, Forst. 



Shrubs or small trees. Leaves opposite, pinnate-nerved. Flowers sinall, in 

 axillary racemes, and sometimes forming terminal leafy panicles, occasionally 

 polygamous. Calyx-tube oampanulate, scarcely or not at all produced above 

 ■the ovary ; lobes 4 or 5, spreading. Stamens oo, in several series, free, fila- 

 ments filiform ; anthers small, versatile, with parallel cells opening longitudi- 

 nally. Ovary 4r- or 6-ceUed -with 2 or very few ovules in each ceU; cells 

 ■often divided by spurious dissepiments ; style filiform, stigma peltate. Berry 



