LEPTONTOHIA MOACURKOIDES. (Nat. order Tiliacese.) 



LePTONYCHIA. Tares. —GEN. CHAR. Sepals 5 distinct valvate in l>ud, petals 5 glandular at the base very small inserted round the base 

 of the torus alternate with the sepals, imbricate in bud, staminal tube short embracing the base of the ovary, fertile stamens 10 in pairs in the sinuses of 

 5 small tooth like staminodia, each fertile filament being also furnished with a long sterile filament attached at its back about Jrd from the base, anther 

 cells parallel at length divaricate, ovary 4 celled, ovules numerous in 2 rows attached to the axis, style simple, stigma obscurely 2 fid, fruit verrucose and 

 densely downy dehiscent, by abortion 3 celled, cells 1 seeded, seed covered with a red spongy aril, albumen horny, embryo straight, radicle pointing to- 

 the hilum. Trees or shrubs, leaves entire glabrous, flowers small in short axillary cymes. 



LEPTONYCHIA MOACURROIDES. (Bedd.) A small tree with much the appearance of a Grewia, leaves glabrous 

 on both sides penninerved or sub 3 nerved at the base, oblong with a long gradually fine acumination, about 4 inches long by If broad, 

 petioles 3- A lines long, stipules small lanceolate early caducous, flowers in axillary cymes about the length of the petioles, calyoine 

 segments linear lanceolate pubescent, petals nearly orbicular not more than £th the length of the sepals densely villous except at the 

 base inside, ovary and style pubescent, fruit about f of an inch each way slightly 2 lobed verrucose and covered with down (and much 

 like that of Moacurra gelonioides*). 



An elegant small tree inhabiting the western coast forests of the Madras Presidency, 1,000 to 3,000 feet elevation. I have met with it 

 on the Carcoor ghat in the Wynad, on the Coimbatore hills, and on the Tinnevelly ghats. 



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