414 XXIX. LiNiiiE. (J. D. Hooker.) 



1. XI. Griffithlana, Planch, in Hook. Lmd.. Jour. Bat. vi. 143, vii. 

 527 ; leaves lanceolate or elliptic- or obovate-lanceolate obtusely caudate- 

 acuminate crenate-serrate, dnipe 1-ceUed 1-seeded. 



Malacca, Griffith, Maingay. — Distkib. Sumatra, Borneo. 



A climbing sliriib, perfectly glabrous. Leaves 3-5 in., alternate, coriaceous, compli- 

 cate, shining above, nerves few, arched; petiole J in., slender. Flowers ^\n.A\a.xa., 

 7-8 in a cluster; pedicels very short, densely braoteate. Petals narrow, very fugacious. 

 Drupe the size of a small pea. — There cannot be much doubt of this constituting the 

 genus Sarcotheea, Blume, though he describes the calyx as' ebracteate, the ovules as 

 superposed, and the fruit as a baooiform capsule, dehiscing by 5 apical fissures. 



6. EZIVTKROXVZ.OIT, Linn. 



Shrubs or small trees, usually quite glabrous. Leaves alternate, quite 

 entire, often subdistichous ; stipules intrapetiolar, often imbricating on 

 short arrested leafless branches. Mowers axillary, small, white or pink, 

 solitary or fascicled; peduncles bracteolate. Sepals p, rarely 6, free or 

 connate. Petals 5, hypogynous, deciduous, with an erect double ligula on 

 the inner face, imbricate. Stamens 10, rarely 12, filaments united into a 

 glandular or eglandular tube. Ovaiy 3- rarely 4-celled ; styles 3, rarely 4, 

 free or connate (connate in aU Indian species), stigmas capitate ; ovules 1, 

 rarely 2 in eadh cell. Drupe 1-celled, 1-seeded. Seed with, a thin testa, 

 albumen variable in quantity or ; embryo straight,^ cotyledons plano- 

 convex, radicle short. — Disteib. .Species about 50, four-fifths of them 

 American, and almost all tropical. The Indian species are not easy of 

 discrimination. 



* Leaves glaucous brown beneath when dry. 



1. E, monogynum, Roxh. Cor. PI. i. t. 88 ; Fhr. Ind. ii. 449 ; 

 leaves 1-2 by f-1 in. obovate or elliptic- or cuneate-obovate tip rounded 

 hardly shining above pale glaucous brown beneath when dry, nerves 

 oblique much reticulated, peduncles \ — \ in. E. indicum, Beddame Flor. 

 Sr/lvat. t. 81. Sethia indica,<Z>C. Procfo-. i. 576 ; PTaW. Cat. 6848 ; W.dsA. 

 Prod/r. lf)6 ; Wight El. t. 48. 



Hilly parts of the Westeen Pehinshla, Bottler, &c. ; Ceylon, in hot dry parts of the. 

 Island. 



A shrub with pale bark. Leaves the smallest of the Indian species, always more or 

 less cuneate-obovate, the primary nerves hardly distinguishable from the secondary,' 

 and these last.not connected with an evident intramarginal one"; petiole sometimes 4 iu. 

 — The Qeylon specimens have larger leaives and longer pedicels. This is very closely 

 allied to, if not identical with, an Eastern African species. 



2. E. K.unthianum, Wall. Cat. 6849 (Sethia ?); leaves 2^-3^ by 

 ^li in. elliptic-lanceolate rarely elliptic-obovate acute or acuminate 

 rarely obtuse or rounded at the tip opaque above pale glaucous-bpown 

 beneath when dry with a reddish midrib, nerves sub-horizontal very faint. 

 i ii. Kunthianum, Kicrz in Journ. Behg. Asiat. Soc. xH. pt. ii. 294. 



EIastekn BENdAL, and Khasia hills, alt. 3-5000 ft. ; ? Martaban, Kurz. 



A shrub, B-6 ft. Leaves very , faintly reticulate on both surfaces, the secondary 

 nerves not collected into an obvious intramarginal nerve ; petiole very short. Drwpe 

 4 in. long, slender, equalling the pedicel. — ^1 have not seen Kurz's specimens. 



Var. ? ParisMi; leaves smaller IJ in. acute pale with more prominent nerves. — 

 Top of Thounggyun in Moulmein, Parish. 



< 3. B. burmanlcum, Grif. Notul.yr. 468 ; Ic. Plant. Asiat. t. 581, f. 3 

 (flower); a tree, leaves 1-2^ by |-li in. obovate oblong or obovate very 



