Isonandra.] lxxxix. sapotace^. (C. B. Clarke.) 539 



Injlorescence in sessile clusters at the summits of thickly scarred naked spurs 0-J- in. 

 long. Calyx-lobes i in., ovate, rounded, minutely sparsely silky or glabrescenfc 

 upwards. Bern/ ^ by J in. — The most glabrous species of the genus. In TVight's 

 specimen (figured in Ic. t. 360) the young leaves and shoots are as described above, 

 and no part of the plant is villous. The species seems ■well distinct by the short 

 petiole, the very rounded leaf-base, the very fins- reticulation of the secondary 

 nervation. 



2. X, Candolliana, WifflU Ic. t. 1220; leaves elliptic obtuse or scarcely 

 acute, secondary nerves distinct of close subparallel lines, flowers suhsessUe in 

 the axils of leaves, anther-tips villous. Dalz. Sr Oibs. Bomb. Fl. 139. I. Perot- 

 tetiana, A. BC. Pt-odi: viii. 1%%, partly. 



NiLGHEKBT Mts. ; Wight, Gardner. 



Shoots minutely rusty-silky. Leaves 3J by Ij in., not acuminate, base cuueate, 

 margins little recurved when dry, primary nerves j-j in. apart ; petiole J in. Flowers 

 nearly as in I. villosa. Berry J by j- in. — Only distinguishable from the next by the 

 hairy anther-tips and more membranous leaves. A. DC. says his /. Perottetiana had 

 the anthers pilose at the tips, but Wight split this species into two, whereof his 

 I. Candolliana has the anther-tips pilose, his /. Perottetiana has them glabrous. 



3. X. Perottetiana, Wight Ic. 1. 1219 ; leaves eUiptio oMuse or suh- 

 acute, secondary nerves obscure of close subparallel lines, flowers subsessile 

 axillary, anther-tips glabrous. A. DC. Prodr. viii. 188, partly. 



NiDGHEBET Mts. ; Wight, Gardner, Sir F. Adam. 



4. X. Stocksii, Clarke ; leayes elliptic-obovate obtuse, secondary nerves 

 somewhat laxly reticulated, flowers sessile on very short thick lateral spurs. 



Concan; Stocks. 



Braiwhlets thick. Leaves 4J by 2J in., base cuneate, primary nerves J-| in. apart; 

 petiole ^ in. Flowers as in /. villosa. — This, by the leaves clustered at the summits 

 of the branches, and by the inflorescence, approaches /. villosa, but the primary and 

 secondary nervation of the leaves is different. 



5. X. lanceolata, Wight Ic. t. 359, not of Thwaites; leaves lanceolate 

 obtusely acuminate, secondary nerves distinct subparallel, flowers nearly sessile 

 in the axils of persistent leaves. A. DC. Prodr. viii. 187. Sideroxylon 

 Wightianum, Wcdl. Cat. 4154:. 



South Deccan Peninsula ; Ooimbatore and Quilon, Wight ; Nilgherry Mts., 

 G. Thomson ; Anamallays, Beddome. Cetlon ; Br. Kelaart. 



Branches not thick. Shoots minutely rusty-silky, Leaves 5 by Ij in. (in Wight's 

 type specimen), usually smaller, base cuneate, primary nerves j-J in. apart, secondary 

 prominent, slightly waved; petiole ^ in. Calyx-lobes ^ in., ovate, obtuse. Berry 

 I by i in. , _ 



Vae. anfraotuosa ; leaves obovate-elbptic abruptly shortly acuminate, secondary 

 nerves conspicuous strongly curved so as to cross each primary at right angles, calyx- 

 segments lanceolate subobtuse. — Cochin ; Valla Candoo-, Wight. — Buds longer than in 

 I. lanceolata, of which this appears a fine variety. 



6. X. Wig-lxtiana, A. DC. Prodi: viii. 187; leaves elliptic sub-obtuse, 

 primary nerves distant secondary laxly reticulated obscurely subparallel, 

 flowers nearly sessile in the axils of persistent leaves. Thwaites Mnum. PL 

 Zeyl. 177. S. tomentosum. Wall. Cat. 4153. Bassia Wigbtiana, Bedd. Foir. 

 Man. 141. 



Ceylon; common, Wight, Gardner, Thwaites, &c. 



Perhaps not separable frotn I. lanceolata. Leaves commonly 2i\ by Ij in., but 

 very variable. The following varieties have been noticed : — 



Vak. major; leaves 9 by If in., acuminate, greet, primary nerves l-lf in. apart. 



