278 XXIII. GUTTiFERiE. (T. Anderson.) 



no means Confined to the small-flowered states from S. India, to which the name of coro- 

 mandeliana has been applied ; the latter is a small and distinct-looking form. 



2. nx. Thwaitesii, Planch. & Trian. Mem. Guttif. 277 ; leaves linear- 

 oblong acute or acuminate, flowers subsessile. M. speciosa var. a, Thwaites 

 Enum. 50, not of Choisy. 



Banks of streams in the Ratnapoora district, Cetlon, Thwaites. 



A tree resembling M.ferrea, but dislinguisbed by the form of the leaves and large 

 sessile or subsessile flowers. Leaves 8-12 by ] |-2 in., base acute, glaucous and faintly 

 nerved beneath. Mowers nearly 4 in. diam., axillary, solitary or in pairs. 



3. nx. ? lepidota, T. Anders. ; leaves elliptic- or oblong-lanceolate 

 acuminate, racemes terminal. 



Eastben Peninbdla ; Malacca, Griffith (distrib. Kbw, No. 845, named M. speciosa 

 by error). 



Branches short, rather slender, terete, ^eaues coriaceous, 2|-34 by f-li in., shortly 

 cuspidate, tapering to the obtuse base ; veins very numerous, close set, fine, equally 

 faint on both surfaces. Fhwers unknown. Fruit size of a chestnut, subglobose, pointed, 

 subtended by the thickened obtuse sepals, valves thick, surface rugulose as if scurfy. 

 Seed with a brown brittle testa. — Probably a new genus between Kayea and Mesva, 

 on account of the small woody non-accrescent sepals. 



6. FCECIXiOXTEVRON, Beddome. 

 (W. T. Thiselton Dyer.) 



Trees. Leaves opposite, smooth, coriaceous, with, close-set spreading lateral 

 veins, minutely reticulated. Flowers yellowish-white, in a terminal panicle, 

 or solitary at each node. Sepals 4-5, small, imbricate. Petals 5-6, contorted. 

 Stamens numerous, free oi slightly connate at the base, filaments short or 0; 

 anthers basifixed, narrow-linear, erect.. Ovary 2-celled ; styles 2, subulate, 

 stigmas punctif orm ; ovules 2 in each cell, ascending from the base. Capsule 

 ovoid, 1-celled, septicidal?, with a single erect seed, albumen ; cotyledons 

 fleshy ; radicle minute, inferior. — Disteeb. S. India ; species 2. 



1. P. indicum, Bedd. in Jowrn. lAnn. Sac. viii. 267, t. 17; Mar. 

 Sylvat. t. 3.; flowers in a pyramidally spreading terminal panicle 4 in. long, 

 sepals and petals each 5, anthers lobulated. 



Western Peninsula ; on the west slopes of the Gha*s, from South Canara to Mala- 

 bar, alt. 3-4000 feet., Beddome. 



A large tree. Leaves 4-10 by 14-2^ in., elliptic, with a long acumination, petioled. 

 Peduncles, pedicels, and sepals slightly puberulous. Flowers | in. diam., yellowish 

 white. Fruit ellipsoid. 



2. P. pauclflorum, Bedd. Fhr. Sylvat. t. 93 ; flowers about 4 together 

 and terminal or solitary at each node, sepals 4 the 2 innermost Eixger, 

 petals 6, anthers simple. 



Western Peninsula ; Travancor, alt. 4-5000 ft., Beddome. 



A ti-ee with red wood. Leaves about 5 by I4 in., narrowly elliptic. Petals oblong, 

 obtuse. Fruit 1 in. long, 4 in. (^am,, at first obpyriform, finally ovoid and rather 

 smaller than in P. imdiCum. 



