Atalantia.\ xxxiii. BUTACEiE, (J. D. Hooker.) 513 



Cur. xviii. 324. Scleroatylis zeylanica, Wight El. i. 109; Thwaites Enwm. 46. 

 S. Amottiana, Wight III. I.e. 



Westekn Peninsula; Phoondah Ghat, in (he Conoan, BitcUe; Nilghirig, Beddome; 

 Cetloh, common in the warmer parts of the island ; ? Malacca, Griffith. 



A bush or small tree, unarmed or armed with very straight spines, J-l in. long. 

 Leaflet Extremely variable, 1-7 in., elliptio-oblong ovate-oblong obovate or almost lan- 

 ceolate, simply obtuse or with an emargiuate or 2-lobed tip. Bacemes rarely exceeding 

 fin. Mowers quite similar to those of A-racemasa, and on equally short pedicels ; 

 buds globose. Ovary srmk in the annular disk. — The Malacca specimens have no 

 flowers, the leaf is 5-6 in., elliptic-lanceolate, more attenuate at the obtuse entii'o tip, 

 and the globose fruit | in. diam. when dry. 



Vae. rotundifoUa, Oliv. I.e. ; Thwaites, Enura. 405 ; leaves rounded or obovate or 

 even obcordate. Solerostylis rotundifolia, Thwaites, I.e. 46. — Ceylon, at Maturatte, 

 alt. 4000 ft. and upwards, Thwaites. 



4. A> caudata, Kodk.f. ; leaflet elliptio-lanceolate caudate-acuminate 

 with a broad 2-lobed tip, flowers small in very short glabrous racemes, 

 calyx very small 4^5-lobed, ovary 2-celled, oviiles \ coUateral. A. Eox- 

 burghiana, Oliv. in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. Suppl. ii. 25. Limonia? caudata, 

 Wcdl. mss. in Herb. Rook. 



Khabia Mtb., at Churra, alt. 4000ft., H.f. & T. (Hort.3ot. Calo. WaUich). 



A glabrous unarmed shrub, with slender branches. Leaflet 3-4 in., much narrower 

 and more narrowed at each end than in any congener, margin quite entire, tip some- 

 times dilated. Bacemes J in., peduncles and pedicels much more slender than in its 

 congeners. Flowers ^-Jin. diam., white, fragrant, usually 4-merous, buds rather 

 longer than broad. Calyx very small. Betals obovate-oblong. Stamens quite free ; 

 anthers ovoid. Ovary sessile on a disk narrower than itself; stigma suboapitate. — A 

 very distinct species, distributed as S. Boxiurghiana ? by T. Thomson and myself. 



5. A. Koxbur^hiana, Hooh.f. (not of Oliver) ; leaflet elliptic-lanceolate 

 acute, racemes axillary short few-flowered, calyx 4-lobed, filaments free, 

 ovary 2-ceUed. Amyris simpUcifoUa, Moid). Fl. Ind, ii. 244. Sclerostylis 

 Eoxburghii Wight Ic. t. 72. 



Penans, Boxburgh ; ? Malacca, Griffith. 



Branches slender, apparently without spines. Leaflet 4-5 in., nan-owed at both 

 ends, subacute, nerved exactly as in all its .congeners (except L. missionis) ; petiole 

 \ in. Bacemes 1 in., 5-6-flowered. Flowers nearly J in. diam., buds globose. Oabyx i 

 obtusely 4-lobed. Petals obovate. Filaments free short subulate ; anthers ovoid-oblong. 

 Ovary ovoid, apparently sessile ; the disk not bping represented in Eoxburgh's drawing 

 tapering into a toothed stigma (probably incorrectly figured) ; cells with 2 collateral, 

 ovules in each. Berry (in GrifSth's specimen) globose, § in. diam. when dry. — A very 

 little known plant, of which there is a figure amongst Koxbargh's drawings (copied by 

 Wight in his Icones), and with which I provisionally identify a fruiting specimen of a 

 Malacca plant collected by Griffith. 



** Anth&rs \\ae&Y-o\)\oT\g. Ovary s,iipiiaXe. 



6. A, missionis, Oliv. in Journ. Linn. Soc, v. Svuppl. 25 ; leaflet oblong- 

 obovate or eUiptic opaque margin undulate when dry articulation obsolete 

 nerves very obscure, racemes very short, calyx 4r-5-lobed, ovaty usually 

 4rcelled, stigma capitate, ovules 2 collateral, Bedd. Flor. Si/lvat. Anal. 

 Gen. xlvi. Limonia missionis, Wight in Hook. Bot. Misc, iii. 291 ; Suppl. 

 t. xxxiii; Ic. t. 175; W. & A. Prodr. 92. L. » missionis, Wall. Cat. 6358, 

 A, B, C. Chilocalyx ellipticus, Turcz. in Bull, Soc, Nat, Mosc. 1863, 

 688. 



Western Peninsula ; Eedhills, Madras, and other places on both sides of the PresiT 

 denoy. Ceylon, in the hotter parts. 



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