616 xLi, CELASTRiNEiE. (M. A. Lawson.) [Lophopetalwm. 



6. Xi. floribundum, Wight El. i. 178 ; leaves 3^-6 by 1-2 in. oblong- 

 elliptic, cymes 6-8 in. puberulous, disk naked 5-angled, petals naked. 



Tenasseeim, at Mergui, Griffith. 



A tree ; quite glabrous with tlie exception of the inflorescence. Leaves acute, coria- 

 ceous ; petiole ^-^ in. lowers in difiuse' divaricating cymes. Petals tf in- , ovate- 

 orbicular. 



Sect. m. Petals and disk naked. Disk cupular ■with a free margin. 



7. Xi. filiforxne, Laws. ; branches very slender almost filiform, leaves 

 3 by \\ in. oblong-lanceolate subacuminate with crisped margins mem- 

 branous, petals -J in. 



Tenassektm, at Mergui, Oriffith. 



Whole plant quite glabrous. Cymes axillary, very slender, shorter than the leaves, 

 subpaniculate. Flowers shortly pedicellate. Petals ovate, rounded at the apex. 

 Fruit ? — A very distinct species readily distinguished from the rest by i,ts very slender 

 branches and crisped leaves. 



8. Xi. reflexum, Laws.; branches short, leaves SJ-S by f-lj in. 

 ovate-lanceolate acuminate withreflexed tips coriaceous margins flat, flowers 

 very small. 



Malacca, Mamgay. 



Whole plant quite glabrous. Leaves minutely pellucidly punctate. Flowers in 

 rigid divaricating paniculate cymes longer than the leaves, shortly pedicellate, yellow. 

 Fruit f — The description of the flowers is taken from Maingay's mss. 



9. Xi. dubium, Laws. ; branches stout coarse, leaves 3 by If in. 

 elliptic acute at both ends with a reflexed tip coriaceous margins flat, 

 petals J in. 



Malacca, Maingay. 



A tree ; whole plant quite glabrous. Flowers in stoutish erect spicate axillary 

 cymes, shorter than the leaves, almost sessile. Petals subtriangular. Fruii ? 



5. KOKOONA, Thwaites. 



Branching trees with yellow or pale-coloured bark. Leaves opposite, 

 petioled, coriaceous. Calyx small, 5-lobed. Petals 5,' coriaceous, with 

 glandular dots. Stamens 5, inserted into the margin of the disk ; anthers 

 oblong. Disk thick, glandular, obscurely angled. Ovary immersed in the 

 disk, 3-celled ; style short, stigma 3-lobed ; ovules 4 in each cell, in 

 2 series, adnate to the axis, ascending. Capsule woody, oblong, 3-gonous, 

 3-celled, 3-valved ; cells 4-seeded. Seeds broadly winged above, imbricate, 

 exalbuminous.— DiSTEiB. Species 3. Ceylon, Malayan Peninsula, and 

 Borneo. 



A genus perhaps too closely allied to LqpTiopetalvm to be kept separate when the 

 fruit of more of the species of the latter genus is known. 



1. K. zeylanica, Thwaites in Hook. Kew Joum. Lot. v. 380, t. 6 ; ETium. 

 52 ; leaves crenate or serrate, petals naked brown with numerous minute 

 dark red glandular dots, fruit oblong. Beddmne Fl. Sylv. t. 146 ; Fl. 

 Sylv. Anal. Gen. Ixv. 



Western Pehinshla; Amamallay hills, Beddome; Ceylon; banks of streams in 

 the Ambagamowa and Suffragam districts, alt. 2^000 ft. 



Leaves on young plants 6-8 in., oblong-lanceolate, subacuminate, serrate ; on adult 

 trees 2^-34 in., elliptic or obovate, crenate, rounded at the apex or emarginate, dark- 



