■Ccvreya.'] iix. MYETACEiE (baeeingtonib^b by C. B. Clarke.) 511 



2. C. arborea, Ro:ib. Cor. PI. iii. 14, t. 218 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 638 ; a tree, leaves 

 ■olovate or oblong, spikes about 3-flowered, petals obtuse. DC Prodr. iii. 296 ; 



Wall. Cat. 3640; W. ^ A. Prodr. 834 ; Wight. lU. 99, 100 ; Dalz. ^ Gibs. 

 Somh. Fl. 95 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 205 : Brand. For. Fl. 236 ; Kurz For. Fl. i. 

 499 ; Miers in Tram. lAim. Soc. eer. ii. Bot. i. 97. — Bheede Hort. Mai. iii. 36. 



Throughout Ikdu, alt. 0-4000 ft. ; from the Himalaya to Travancore and Teuas- 

 serim : no example from Ceylon. 



Attaining 30-60 ft. Leaves 12 by 6 in., otlong or orbicular, obtuse or shortly 

 acuminate, narrowed at the base, crenate-dentioulate, glabrous ; petiole 0-1 in. Spikes 

 3-8 in. ; flotrers usually few, sessile ; bracts 3, unequal. Calt/x total length |-1 in., 

 terete, eampanulate, obscurely pubescent ; lobes ovate, obtuse. Petals 1} in., white, 

 ■eUiptie. Mlaments red. Ovules in two rows in each cell of the ovary {Kurz). Fruit 

 2J by 2 in., globose, surmounted by an enlarged mouth having a depressed pit at the 

 vertex within the calyx-teeth. Seeds |-J in., ellipsoid. — Dissepiments of the frvit 

 permanent, at least sometimes. C. orbiculata, Miers I. c. i. 98 1. 16, fig. 6-8 (founded 

 •on Griffith's example KewDistrib. No. 2428 coUeeted at Mergui) has the ovary slightly 

 verrucose, apparently from the attack of some insect. 



3. C. spheericai Boxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 636 ; a tree, leaves obovate or orbicular, 

 .spikes many-flowered, petals acute white. Wall. Cat. 3639 ; Wiffht Ic. t. 147, 

 ^56 ; Kurz For. Fl. i. 600 ; Miers in Trans. Imn. Soc. ser. ii. Bot. i. 97, t. 16, 

 % 9-15. 



Mountains of Chittagons, Roxbwgh.. 



This is very doubtfully separable from the preceding species : Roxbiu^gh says that 

 in each cell of the ovary the oviiles are in six rows (not in two as in C: arborea). Mr. 

 Kurz does not appear to have seen the tree, and closely follows Roxburgh. Neither 

 Col. Beddome nor C. B. Clarke have ever distinguished C. sphmea alive. Mr. Miers 

 las set aside in the herbarium (as C. sphtsrica) examples collected as C. arborea by . 

 Wallich, Kottler, Eitchie and Jv D. H., so that none of these could have distinguished 

 the tree in the field. 



11. FXiANCKONXA, Blwme. 



Trees. Leaves alternate, crowded towards the ends of the branches, mem- 

 branous, crenulate, pinnate-nerved, vidthout dots. Bacemes short, terminal ; 

 flowers greenish-yellow or white. Calyx-tube turbinate, scarcely produced 

 above the ovary ; lobes 4, imbricate. Petals 4, imbricate. Stamens very many, 

 in several series, slightly connate at the base, innermost without anthers. 

 Ovary inferior, 3-4-celled, crowned by an annular disc ; style long, simple, 

 atigma small; ovules many in each cell. FHiit (ex Miers. and Kurz) large, 

 3-1-ceUed, fibrous, ovoid, crovraed by the calyx. Seeds several, ellipsoid, lying 

 in pulp ; albumen ; embryo horseshoe-shaped, cotyledons short. — Disibib. 

 Species 2, extending from the Andamans to Australia. 



1. P. littoralls, Van Soutte in Fl. des Serres vii. 25 ; glabrous, leaves 

 obovate-oblong, flowers greenish on very short thick pedicels. Miers in Trans, 

 larni. Soc. ser. ii. Bot. i. 94 ; Kurz For. 'Fl. i. 600. P. littoralis, Miers I. c. Piri- 

 garda valida, Blume Bijd. 1096. Gustavia valida, DC. Prodr. iii. 290 ; Sassh. 

 in Flora, 1B4A,5Q5. 



Andamans, in the evergreen coast-forests ; Kv/rz. 



An evergreen tree 40-60 ft. Leaves 7 by 3^ in., obtuse or scarcely acute, much 

 narrowed at the base, denticulate ; petiole^ in. ifaceme short, terminal ; flowers 

 middle-sized. CaVyx-tiibe \ in., top-shaped, obsoletely 8-angled ; segments J in., ovate, 

 rounded. Petals .1 in., obtuse, reflexed. Filaments Ij in., purple. — (Description 

 chiefly copied from Kurz). 



