586 XXXIX. OLACINE^. (Maxwell T. Masters.) 



1. G. axillaris, Wall. Cat. 3718; leaves lanceolate, cymes axillary about 

 the length of the petiole, flowers unisexual or polygamous. Bead. 11. 

 iSylv. Ixi. Lasianthera 1 tetrandra. Wall, in Eoxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey, ii 327. 

 Platea axillaris, Thwaites Enum. 44 ; Bah. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 28. Stemo- 

 nurus axiQaris, longifolius, Heyneanus, and ceylanicus, Miers Contrib. i. 

 90-93. S. polymorphus, Miers I.e. i. 87, parllp. Olax Heyneana, Wall. 

 Cat. 6780. 0. longifolia. Wail. Cat. 6782, A partly, 6782 B. Gomphandra 

 polymorpha, Wight Ic. 964, ? ^a»-%— Dioecia pentandra, WalZ. Cai. 

 67B0B. 



SiLHET, WaUich; Westees Penthsula from the Concan southwards; Cetlon, 

 from the sea level to 4000 ft., Thwaites. 



A email tree^r large shrub, glahrous, or the terete hranches slightly puherulous. 

 Leaves 24-54 by 1-2J in., submembranous, conspicuously nerved, base_ acute ; petiole 

 \-\ in. Cymes puherulous. Calyx minute, 4^5-toothed, slightly ciliated. Corolla 

 4-5 times longer than the calyx, tubular-campanulate, limb 4-5-lobed; lobes ovate, 

 acuminate, point iuflexed, ultimately speading. Filaments flat, pilose at. the apex. 

 Ovary small, oblong, smooth ; style conic, stigma minute ; disk accrescent. Fruit 

 4 in., oblong, obtuse, smooth, crowned by the remains of the stigma. Seed large, 

 integument striated ; cotyledons very large, semicylindrio, amygdaloid, obtuse, radicle 

 superior (WalKch). — WaUich describes the stigma as fleshy, broadish, subcapitate, 

 but my own examination of Wallich's specimens agrees with that of Miers' de- 

 scription and figure. What WaUich took for the stigma may thus be the epigynous 

 disk of which Miers elsewhere makes mention. The Silhet habitat is derived from 

 Wallich's specimen of his number 6782. There is no other authority for this plant 

 occurring in Eastern India. 



2. G. polymorplia, Wight III. 103 ; Ic. 953 (not 954) ; leaves coriaceous 

 roundish to lanceolate, base tapering, cymes terminal or opposite the leaves, 

 very rarely axillary, two or three times longer than the petiole, flowers 

 polygamous. Wall. Cat. 9024. G. coriacea, Wight III. i. 103 ; Bedd. Fl. 

 Sylv. Anal. Gen. t. ix. Stemonurus polymorphus, coriaceus, Walkeri and 

 Gardneri, Miers Contrib. i. 87. Platea Wightiana, Miers, l.c. i. 98. 



Western Peninsula, Nilghiri Mts., Wight; Ceylon. 



A small tree or large shrub, glabrous, or the young partp and leaves slightly puhe- 

 rulous. Leaves 2-6 by 4-24 iu., more or less coriaceou'^, opaque, inconspicuously 

 veined; petiole ^-4 in. Ct/mes puherulous. i^iot«e?--6«ds oblong-clavate. Flowers ^m., 

 4-'5-merous, hermaphrodite or uni.sexual. Calyx minute. CoroUa campauulate, lobes 

 acuminate, points inflexed. Stamens glabrous or slightly puberulous, free, or ulti- 

 mately agglutinated into a tube, at length exserted. Ovary on an hypogynous disk ; 

 style short, conic, stigma minute. Fruit 4-| in., oblong or obovoid, reddish-brown. — 

 The plant figured by Wight Icon. 953, as (he male of iLis species has, as shown, her- 

 maphrodite flowers, and the stamens are destitute of hairs. Miers in consequence, rei'ers 

 it to his Platea Wightiana, but it difl'ers from Platea in the coherent petals and 

 acute, not discoid, stigma. It is apparently the same form as Wight's G. coriacea. — 

 Very variable. Wight 111. p. 103, distinguishes the following varieties : — 



Var. 1. acuminata, leaves oval attenuate at both ends terminating in a longish 

 linear acumen. 



Var. 2. oblongifolia, leaves linear-oblong obtuse at both ends abruptly acuminate. 



Var. 3. angustifolia, leaves 5-7 by 1-2 in. narrow linear-lanceolate acuminate, 

 base acute. 



Var. 4. longifolia, leaves 5-7 by 1-2 in. linear acuminate, base rounded. 



Var. 5. ovalifolia, leaves 2-3 by 1 J in. oval, obtuse at both ends or shortly acuminate. 



3. Cr. affinis, Mast. ; leaves glabrous oblong-lanceolate, base acute, 

 cymes axillary 2-3 times longer than the petiole, flowers hermaphrodite. 



