Gasearia.] lxiii. samtdaceji.- (C. B. Clarke;) '695 



•annot become very large. — The pedicels are much longer in this species than in any 

 of the others ; and the pubescence of the leaves beneath differs from all except that 

 of C. greuiieifolia. A Casearia collected by Griffith in fruit in Assam may be this, 

 but the pedicels are shorter, and some of the leaves rounded at.the base, approaching 

 thus C. grewimfolia. 



mPERFEdXT KNO'WN AND EXCLUDED SPECIES. 



C. ASTTiA, Twrcz. in Bull. Soc. Imup. Mosc. 1863, 608 ; branehlets pubescent, leaves 

 glabrous, sterile stamens densely white-hirsute, style 0. 



East Indies; Roxburgh {fide Twrcz.). 



Leaves lanceolate, soniewhat long but obtusely acuminate, margin revolute entire, 

 shining, not punctate ; petiole short. Pedicels 3 or few. Calyx-tube top-shaped, con- 

 tracted in the middle, segments reflexed. — A very distinct species in the structure of 

 its flowers, forming the type of a separate subgenusi — ^Not seen ; the fbregoing is 

 taken from Turczaninow. 



Caseaeia ? cORiiCEA, Wall. Cat. 7196, is Chetoearpus caatanocarpus, Thwaites. 

 Enum, 275. 



Casbakia ? acdminata. Wall. Cat. 7198, has opposite leaves and is remote from 

 the genus and order. 



Gaseaeia ?i,ucida. Wall. Cat. 7199, is a Euphorbiaeeous plant, possibly the male 

 of WaU. Cat. 7196. 



2. OSniEIiZA., Thwaites.. 



Trees. Leaves alternate, petioled, ovate or oblong-lanGeolate, entires or obr 

 scuiely serrate, epunctate ; stipules minute, deciduous. Flowet's small, very 

 nearly sessile, in long racemes which are simple or pariicled. Calyx inferior, 

 divided nearly to the base ; lobes 5, rounded, imbricate. Petals 0. Siamem 10 

 (or 8), 5 alternating with as many 2-lobed Hairy scales and 5 inserted in the 

 notches of those scales. Ovary superior, 1-celled ; styles 3, short, with capi- 

 tellate stigmas ; ovules few, placehtas 3, parietal. Capsule subglobose, 3- 

 valved. Seeds few, subglobose, vsrith red fleshy aril. — Distkib. Species 3 : 

 one in Oeylon, two in the Philippines. 



1. O. zeylanlca, Thwaites Emm. 20; leaves glabrous narrow elliptic- 

 lanceolate acuminate nearly entire, panicle terminal. Bemth. in Joum. lA'n.n- 

 Soc. V. Svppl. 89 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 209. Casearia paniculata, Qardn. 



Geylon; Gardner; Central Province, alt. 3000 ft., not common ; Thwaites. 



Younger branches and panicle pubescent. Leaves 2-i by 1-1 1^ in., narrowed at 

 the base ; petiole | in. Panicle lax, racemes 4-6 in. i%>t«ers white tinged with red, 

 each supported by a single cup-shaped bract. Stamens lO-. Ovary Yery haXny. Cap- 

 •afe I' in., coriaceous. See^fo 1-4, subglobose. 



3. XXOItXAZiXVnX, Jacq. 



Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, crenate or subentire, petioled or sessile, 

 Jarely punctulate. Flowers hairy, small, in slender axillary and sub-terminal 

 simple or panicled racemes ; bract at the base of the pedicel often prominent 

 hut caducous. Calyx-tube funnel-shaped, adnate lo the base of the ovary ; 

 lobes 5-7, narrow, persistent. Petals 5-7, inserted in the throat of the calyx, 

 linear-oblong, persistent. Disk tomentose. Stamens solitary or in fascicles of 

 1-7, opposite the petals with alternating glands. Ovafy halt^uperior, 1-celled ; 



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