PITYRANTHE VERRUCOSA. (Nat. order Tiliaceffi.) 



PlTYRANTHE. Thw. — GEN. CHAR. Calyx urceolate campanulate, 3-41obed, petals 5 rather broad naked inserted round the base of the 

 torus, fertile stamens about 15 inserted on to the torus free or obscurely 5 adelphous, Btaminodia 5 shorter than the stamens and inserted with them 

 spathulate upwards, anthers adnate, cells divaricate, ovary 5 celled, cells 2 ovuled, styles 5 in the young bud afterwards closely united into one and 

 filiform, capsule inQato-turbinate 5 angled loculicidally 5 valved, 1 seeded by abortion. A tree, leaves ovate or ohovate crenate, flowerB small in terminal 

 panicles. Thw. En. PI. Zeyl. p. 29. 



-P ITYRANTHE VERRUCOSA. (Thw.) A tree, leaves ovate toobovate, inconspicuously crenate penninerved or sub 3 nerved, 

 above sparingly furnished with tufts of stellate hairs at length glabrous, beneath whitish with dense close pressed tomentum, 2-6 

 inches long by 1-3 broad, petiole ^-f inch long, panicles terminal lepidote, flowers numerous 1| line long, capsule furfuraceous verru- 

 cose, seed black oblong 2 lines long very miuutely reticulated covered with pale deciduous stellate pubescence. Thw. En. PI. Zey. p- 29. 

 Kleinhovia verrucosa, Gardn. MS. 



A tree found only in Ceylon, abundant in the Batcaloa district, and at Jaffna and Trineomalee. 



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