600 XL. iLiciNE^. (J, D. Hooker.) [Hex. 



obtuse angles. — Brandis gives Sikkim as a habitat for this, bnt I doubt the plant he 

 here alludes to beinglthe same species ; his plant has rery stout branches like those of/. 

 dipyrena, and very shortly pedicelled young fruits, has 4 pyrenes, lanceolate minutely 

 sen-ate leaves, and inhabits elevations of near 10,000 ft. ; it may be a new species, but 

 the specimens are to6 imperfect for determination. 



Sect. III. Mowers S in panicled cymes ; ? solitary or fascicled, pedi- 

 celled (not cymose nor on peduncled umbellules}. Drupe 4-6-ceUed. 

 (See 15. Gardneriana, in Sect IV.). 



* Leaves quite entire, or idth 2-3 spinulose teeth. {See 9. embelioides.) 



5. Xi malabarica, Bedd. Flor. Sylv. t. 143 ; leaves 2-4-in. narrowly 

 elliptic-oblong acute or apiculate quite entire, ^ flowers in shortly 

 panicled umbellules, calyx usually 6-merous, drupe very small puberuluus 

 usually 6-celled, style sTiort eyUndric stout. L Wightiana, Dak. & Gils. . 

 Bomb. Flor. 143, not of Wall. 



Western Peninsula ; on the Ghats, from the Concan southwards, ascending to 

 3000 ft. 



A large tree, everywhere quite glabrous. Leaves variable in length and breadth, 

 always more or less narrowly elliptic, acute acumiuate or apiculate by the produced 

 nerve, shining above, nerves beneath faint, margin with rarely a spinulose tooth to- 

 wards the tip ; petiole J-J in. ^'lowers ^^ in. diam., peduncles and pedicels pubera- 

 louB ; ? fl. solitary or fascicled, the fascicles very rarely peduncled, pedicels i-J in. 

 Culyx-loles usually 6, broad, subacute, ciliate. Petals 4-6, orbicular, ciliolate, connate 

 at the base in the ^, less so in the ? . Stamens often only 4, inserted at the base of the- 

 corolla, filaments short ; anthers broadly oblong. Ovary of g imperfect, with 4 minute 

 stigmas. Drvpe J in. diam., depressed-globose, usually 6- or more celled, with an evi- 

 dent stout style. — This has been distributed as J. Wightiana, by Perottet and others. 



6. X. Walkeri, Wight & Gard. mss. ex Thwaites Enum. 184 (1858) ; gla- 

 brous, leaves j-1 in. subsessile orbicular obovate or broadly elliptic very 

 coriaceous obtuse rounded nr retuse with a few teeth near the tip, flowers 

 4-5-merous, $ in very shortly peduncled umbellules, ? shortly pedicelled. 

 I. Walkeri, Turcz. in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 1863, pt. i. 605. I. emarginella, 

 Turcz. Lc. 



Westkhn Peninsula ; Pulney Mts., Wight. Ceylon ; in the Central province, alt. 

 5-8000 ft. 



A small densely branched tree. Leaves very coriaceous, usually obovate with an 

 emarginate or 2-lobed or 3-4-toothed tip, margins recurved, nerves below few and slen- 

 der ; petiole -^ in. Flowers ^ in. diam., white, 4^5-merous. Calyx-lobes 4-5, sub- 

 acute. Petals orbicular, spreading, connate in both sexes. Stamens 4-5, inserted on 

 the corolla in both sexes. Drupe J in, diam., globose, with 4-5 triangular bard coher- 

 ing stones ; stigma sessile, 4-o-lobed. — A very variable plant, named Walkeri inde- 

 pendently by Thwaites and Turczaninoff. Thwaites has a var. major with elliptic 

 apiculate leaves. Turczaninoff's I. emargintUa is the more common form of the 

 plant. 



** Leaves toothed or serrate. {See also 6. Walkeri.) 



7. X. denticulata, Wall. Gat. 4333 ; glabrous, leaves 2j-3 in. elliptic 

 or eUiptic-oblong acute or obtusely acuminate serrate very coriaceous, 

 flowers 4-merous, (J in short subsessile cymes, ? fascicled, drupe ^ in. 

 diam. with 4 hard stones. Wight III. t. 142: Thwaites Enum. 183; 

 Beddome Fl. Sylv. t. 142. I. nUagirica, Miqud Fl. Uohm. 1456. 



Western Peninsula; Nilghiri and Anamallay bills, alt. 6-8000 ft., Wight, &c. 

 Ceyloh, on the Bopatalawa Plains, alt. 6000 ft., Thwaites. 



