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GENUS VII. BURSINOPETALUM. 
Pentandria Monogynia. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. From Bursinos, leathery, and Petalon, a petal, alluding 
to the coriaceous petals. 
Gen, Cuar. Flowers bisexual: calyx 5-toothed: petals 5, 
furnished at the apex with an inflexed, bidentate process: ovary 
1-celled, 1-ovuled : drupe ovoid, umbilicate, 1-celled, 1-seeded, 
(1) B. arsorzum. (R. W.) 
Ident. Wight’s Spicil. I. p. 22.—Dalz. Bomb. flor. p. 28. 
ingray. Wight’s Spicil, I, t. 24.—-Icon. t. 956. 
Spec. Cuar. Large tree, with very dark green, almost pur- 
plish foliage : leaves oblong-elliptic, acuminated : flowers terminal, 
cymosely panicled: calyx conical, adhering to the ovary: petals 
gvate, pointed, very coriaceous: filaments short, compressed: an- 
thers large; style short: fruit drupaceous, about the size of a 
small plum, ovoid, the apex marked by a broad scar where the 
flower had fallen off: flowers white. / 
Sispara Ghaut and Parwar Ghaut, Bombay. Flowering in April 
and May, , , 
GENUS VIII. APODYTES. 
Pentandria Monogynia. Sex: Syst: 
Gen. Cuar. Flowers bisexual: calyx small, not enlarged ; 
petals 4-5: stamens alternate with the petals: ovary 1-celled; 
fruit ovate-reniform, bearing on one side a fleshy appendage: ins 
florescence terminal. ; 
(1) A. Benrnamiana. (R. WV.) 
Ident. Wight’s Icon. vol. TI. p, 14, 
Engrav. Wight’s Icon. t. 1153. 
Spec. Cuan. Tree: leaves elliptic, obtuse at both ends: pa- 
nicles terminal, contracted, rigid, shorter than the leaves: petals 
elliptic, inflexed at the point: stamens the length of the petals: 
ovary ovate, hairy: stigma truncated: drupe half ovate, crowned 
pas the base of the style: fleshy appendage scutelliform : flowers 
white. ° 
Neilgherries, rare. A single tree. was found in the woods near 
the top of the hills behind the Avalanche Bungalow, flowering in 
February. 
