588 XXXIX. OLACiNE^. (Maxwell T. Masters.) [Apodytes. 



crustaceous. Seed pendulous ; embryo small, in the apex of flesliy albumen, 

 cotyledons narrow.— Disteib. , Species 9, natives of tropical Asia and. 

 Africa. 



* Anthers elongate, Unear-oblong. 



1. A.. Benthamiana, Wight Ic. 1153; leaves glabrous oblong obtuse 

 at both ends margins revolute, anthers and ovary puberulous. Bedd. M. 

 Sylv. 140 var. a. 



Western Peninsula in the Nilghiei Mts. and Southern provinces, Wight, 

 Beddome. 



Branches terete, glabrous, shoots puberulous. Leaves 3-4 by l-lj in., coriaceous, 

 black iu drying ; petiole ^1 in. Panicles terminal, rigid, shorter than the leaves, 

 pedicels puberulous. Flowers \ in. Petals inflexed at the point. Ovary hairy. 

 Drupe f by i in., ovoid, reniform, crowned with the persistent base of the style, and 

 furnished with a lateral scutelliform appendage, 1-seeded. Seed pendulous, obovate- 

 cuneate, compressed. 



2. A,. G-ardneriana, Miers in Ann. db Mag, Nat. Hist. ser. 2, vol. ix. 

 389 ; Contrib. i. 58 ; leaves oblong acute at both ends abruptly acumina,te, 

 margins revolute, anthers glabrous, ovary sligbtly puberulous. Thwaites 

 Enum. 42. 



Ceylon ; Central province, alt. 5-7000 ft., Gardner, Thwaites. 



Bark wrinkled. Leaoes i-i by | in., black in drying ; petiole 4 in- Cymes 

 peduncled, terminal, pedicels divaricate or ascending, ultimate pedicels shorter than the 

 flowers. Buds elongate, oblong. Floioers 4 in. 



3. A. Beddomei, 2Iast. ; leaves membranous broadly ovate acute acu- 

 minate, margins flat, anthers and ovary glabrous. A. Bentbamiana, var. /S, 

 Bedd. Fl. Syh. 140. 



Western Peninsula in the Nilghiri Mts., and Travancore, Wight, &c. 



Quite glabrous. Leaves 3-4 by 14-2 in., black in drying, base rounded or acute ; 

 petiole ^-4 in. Pedicels pilosulous, ultimate pedicels shorter than t^Q flowers. Buds 

 oblong, obtuse. Flowers \ in. Fruit § in., wrinkled. 



** Antliers short, oblong. 



4. A. andamanica, Kurz Andam. Rep. 5 ; Joum. As. Soc. Beng. 1872, 

 ii. 298 ; leaves oblong acuminate not black in drying, cymes axiUary short. 



Andaman Islands, Kurz. 



A small tree. Branches virgate, terete. Leaf-huds puberulous. Leaves 7-8 by 24 

 in., glabrous, base obtuse or acute, midrib depressed above prominent beneath; petiole 

 4 iu. Cymes peduncled, peduncles not much exceeding the petiole, etrigose. Flower 

 I in. Calyx puberulous, cup-shaped, scarcely lobed. Petals externally puberulous, 

 oblong-acute, midrib prominent within. Filaments flat, ligulate ; anthers short, oblong. 

 Drupe 1 4 in. ; stone flbrous woody. 



15. nXAFPXA, Jacq. 



Trees. Leaves alternate, petiolate, simple, 1-rierved. Flowers small, in 

 terminal corymbose cymes. Cali/x 5-toothed. Fetais 5, usually hairy vrithin. 

 Stamens 5, hypogynous, alternate with, the petals ; anthers 2-lobed, dorsi- 

 lixed, dehiscing longitudinally ; pollen grains subquadrate. Disk hypo- 

 gynous, cup-shaped. Ova/ry superior, 1-celled; style short: ovules 2, 

 pendulous. J^Wii drupaceous. (Seerf pendulous ; embryo in fleshy albumen, 

 cotyledons leafy, radicle superior.— Distrib. Species 8 or 10, natives of the 

 Western Peninsula, Ceylon and tropical South America. 



