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(1) I.WlOHTIANA. {Wall.) 



Ident. Wight's Spicil. II. p. 35.— Dalz. Bomb. flor. p. 143. 



Engrav. Wight's Spicil. II. t. 139.— Icon. t. 1216. 



Spec. Char. Large tree: leaves alternate, ovate-elliptic or 

 elliptic-acuminated, entire, coriaceous : umbels numerous, axillary, 

 or from the scars of fallen leaves : pedicels about the length of the 

 peduncles, 'often longer : flovfers often polygamous by abortion ; 

 'Corolla 5-6-cleft : berry 5-6-seeded : flowers white. 



Neilgherries, flowering nearly all the year. 



(2) I. Gardneriana. (iJ. W.) 



Ident. Wight's Spicil. II. p. 35. 



Engrav. Wight 1. c. t. 140.— Icon. t. 1217. 



Spec. Char. Small tree or large, shrub : leaves, ovate-lanceo- 

 late or subcordate, long acuminated : umbels axillary, or aggregated 

 on thp. naked branches : pedicels' often shorter than the peduncles, 

 sparingly hairy -. Ciilyx and corolla 5-lobed, the former sprinkled 

 ■with short hairs : flowers white. 



Sisparah jungles. Neilgherries. Flowering in February. A 

 third species, /. denticulata, (Wall.) grows on the Neilgherries, 

 Wight's III. II. ■*. 149, of which no description is given. 



ORDER CII. STYRAGACE.S. 



Calyx adlierent to the ovary, persistent, 5-(or 4-) lobed; lobes 

 imbricating in aestivation ; corolla monopetalowSj, the number of 

 its lobes frequently different from those of the calyx (in the 

 Indian species both, usually 5) with. imbricated aestivation: sta- 

 mens definite or indefinite,, arising from the tube of the corolla, 

 of unequal length, cohering in various ways, but generally in a 

 slight degree only, round the throat of the tube ; anthers 2- 

 celled, bursting inwardly ;- pollen broadly elliptical, smooth ; 

 ovary adhering to- the calyx, rarely free, from 2-to 5-celled, 

 cells opposite the lobes of the calyx, when the same number, the 

 partitions sometimes scarcely adhering in the centre ; ovules 

 anal?:opal, 2 or several in each cell, either all pendulous, or the 

 upper one ascending ; style simple; stigma somewhat capitate ; 

 fruit drupaceous, enclosed in the persistent calyx, generally with 

 all the cells, except one, abortive ; seeds ascending or suspend- 

 ed, with the slender embryo lying in the midst of the fleshy 

 albumen ; radicle long, directed to the hilum ; cotyledons flat. 



