83 FLOEA INDICA. \_ScMzandracece. 



sed nanquam foliifcra. Stamina gynocciura fequantia, connectivo apice longe subu- 

 late. Carpella in spicam oblongam 8— 4i-pollicarem laxe congesta, approximata, ^- 

 poHicaria, compressa, rotundata. Semina 1-2. 



8. M. FJilagirica (Zenker, Plant. Ind. t. 30) ; foliis ellipticis utrin- 

 que acutis vel ovalibus obtuse acuminatis utrinque glabris vel subtus 

 secus costam pubescentibus, floribus albis, petalis cum sepalis 13 ex- 

 terioribus obovatis iuterioribus oblongo-lanceolatis acutis. — Wight! III. 

 i. 14, Icon. t. 938 ! Spic. Neilgh. t. 6. M. Pulneyensis, Wight! Ill.i. 

 14. t. 5, excl.f. 5 et 6. M. Champaca, TFall. Cat. 969 K! {nee alia: 

 lit.) M. ovaUfolia, Wig!it! III. i. 13. 



/3. TFallceri; arbusoula, foliis oblongis vel lanceolatis plerumque 

 subtus glaucescentibus 3-3 poll, longis, floribus minoribus. — M. Wal- 

 keri et M. glauca, Wig!it, III. i. 13. 



Hab. In montibus altioribus peninsulas australis, alt. 6-8000 ped., 

 Wight! et in summis montibus Zeylanife, Watter! etc. — {v. s.) 



Arbor magnitudine varia, pleruraque excelsa, in Zeylania interdum fruticosa; 

 partes hovcHee sericeo-villosaj. Folia forma valde varia, 3-5 pollices longa, 1^-2 

 lata, petiolo f-poll. Cicatrix stipularis dimidium petiolum aequans. Jlabastri 

 l-l-l-poHicares, cum pedunculo longitudine vario dense fusco-sericei (in j8 cinereo- 

 sericei). Spathcs 2. Carpella in spicam 2-3-pollicarem disposita, subcompressa, ro- 

 tundata. Semina plerumque solitaria. 



Our variety P (from Ceylon) bas at iirst sight so very different an aspect from the 

 peninsular plant, that we can scarcely persuade ourselves that it is not distinct. We 

 have, however, failed to discover satisfactory characters to distinguish these plants in 

 the dried state; but botanists who have an opportunity of observing the living plant 

 may perhaps he more successful. The Ceylon plant, of which we have seen a 

 rather extensive suite of specimens, varies much in the size of the flower and in the 

 shape of the leaves ; and the small lanceolate-leaved states appear to pass insensibly 

 into a plant with oval leaves, which, though usually more coriaceous, are sometimes 

 quite undistinguishable from those of the typical M. Nilagirica. These small states, 

 which have sometimes nine instead of twelve petals, seem in many of our specimeas 

 to be diseased, the flowers being unusually small, the stamens few and abbreviated, 

 and the young carpels abnormally swollen, as if punctured by an insect, and appa- 

 rently abortive, Perhaps, therefore, it will be found that the broad-leaved arbores- 

 cent state is the normal form in Ceylon as well as in the peninsula, and that the 

 lanceolate-leaved state is an accidental variety. M. glauca of Wight is certainly 

 only an abnormal form, with broadly obovate leaves, for the glaucous hue of the 

 under surface is not confined to specimens with that form of leaf, but is seen equally 

 in the oval and lanceolate-leaved plants, and is often observed on the same specimen 

 with leaves not at all glaucous below. 



IV. SCH1ZANDRACEJ3. 



Flores unisexuales. Sepala et petala hypogyna ternatim vel quina- 

 tim pluriserialia, sestivatione imbricata. Stamina defiuita vel iudefinita, 

 tore depresso vel conico inserta. Fila.menta libera vel plus minus 

 coalita. Antlierm adnatse, biloculares, plerumque varie heteroraorplise. 

 Ovaria indefinita, in capitulum oblongum vel subglobosum coalita. 

 Ooula in sutura ventrali 3-3, arapliitropa vel fere campylotropa. Bacca 

 dissepimento spurio transverse bi- (rarius tri-) loculares, dispermse. 



