Erythropalum.] xxxix. olacine^. (Maxwell T. Masters.) 579 



ovules 3, pendulous, anatropal. Fruit 1 in., ovoid-oblong, surmounted by the remains 

 of the disk, epioarp fleshy whitish ; mesocarp somewhat bony, brownish ; endocarp 

 whitish, spongy. 8ee,d solitary, large, pendulous, ovoid, acute below, without coat 

 or distinction of parts except a trace of a radicle (GriflSth). — The structure of the seed 

 requires further investigation. Materials are wanting for this purpose. 



6. STROniBOSIA, Blume. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, petioled, simple, 1-nerved. Inflorescence 

 cymose, cs'mes short. Flowers regular, hermaphrodite, dichlamydeous. 

 Valyx cup-shaped, more or less 5-lobed, inferior, or partly superior. Petals 

 6, free, hairy within. Stamens 5, opposite the petals and adnate to their 

 base ; anthers 2-celled, introrse. Staminodes 0. Ovai-y wholly superior, or 

 partly inferior, imperfectly 4-5-celled, surrounded by a perigynous 5-lobed 

 disk ; style simple ; ovules 4-.5, pendulous from a central placenta. Fruit 

 drapaceous, surmounted by the remains of the calyx -lobes and of the style ; 

 stone crustaceous. Seed pendulous, embryo minute within fleshy albumen. 

 — DiSTRiB. Species 6, natives of the Western peninsula, Ceylon and the 

 Archipelago. In the Indian species I find the flowers cleistogamous. 



Sect. 1. Eustrombosia. Ovary free. 



1. S. javanica, Blume Bijdr. 1154 ; Mils. Bot. Lugd. Bat. i. 251 c. ic. ; 

 leaves oblong acuminate entire, base rounded, calyx obscurely 5-Iobed. 

 Mvi. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 787. 



Eastbrk Peniksola ; Tesasbekim, Belfer ; Penang, WalKcli ; Malacca, Maingay 

 A lofty tree with hard white wood. Brandies terete, purplish, glabrous. Leaves 

 6-7 by 3 in., coriaceous, glabrous ; petiole ^-f in. Flower-hud ellipsoid. Flowers 

 \-\ in., greenish, in short axillary cymes, which scarcely exceed the petiole. Calyx 

 shallow, free, but accrescent and adherent to the fruit. Petals 5, much exceeding the 

 sepals, oblong, coriaceous, slightly hairy within near the revolute tip. Stamens 5, 

 J shorter than the petals. Otary conical, style short. Fruit drupaceous, turbinate, 

 suhstipitate, by abortion 1-seeded. — Although the ovary of this species is free, the fruit 

 is adherent (Blume confirmed by Baillon). 



Sect. 2. Xiavallea {Baillon, genus). Ovary more or less adherent to the 

 calyx-tube. 



2. S. ceylanica, Gar dm. in Gale. Journ. Nat. Hist. vi. 350; leaves 

 inequilateral oblong-lanceolate 'acuminate entire, calyx 5-fld. Miq. Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. i. pt. i. 787 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 137. Strombosia javanica, Thwaites 

 Emm. 42, not of Blume. Sphserocarya leprosa, Balz. in Hook. Kew Journ. 

 iii. 34 ; Bah. & Gibs. Bomi. Fl. 223. Lavallea ceylanica, Baill. Adansonia, ii. 

 361. 



Western Penhtstila ; in the Concan and Canara. Ceylon, in forests of the Central 

 province, alt. 3000 ft. 



A tree or shrub with greyish bark. Leaves 6 by 2i in., glabrous, coriaceous, base 

 rounded or somewhat tapering ; petiole i in. Flower-bvdg oblong-clavate. Flmcera 

 T5-Tii in., snbsessile, in axillary glomerules, or On a thick spur. Cah/x-lobes rounded, 

 ciliate. Petals 3 times longer than the calyx-lobes, acute, haiiy within, tips ultimately 

 reflexed. Omry 4-5-oelled below, ovules 5. Fruit 1 in , pyriform, rugose, deep purple, 

 apiculate, scaly, tuberculate when ripe.— The species varies in stature and in the form 

 of the leaf. The Cingalese forms have often more oblique leaves than those from the 

 Feninsula. 



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