STROMBOSIA CEYLANICA. (Nat. order OlacineEe.) 



STKOMBOSIA. Illume.— GEN. CHAR. Calyx limb small, 5 lobed ; lobes broadly ovate or deltoid rotundate, in fruit enlarged, adnate. Petals 

 o, perigynous, valvate. Stamens as many as and opposite and adnate to the petals, filaments shortly free above, ovary broad, inserted upon a disk or 

 semi-immevsed or altogether immersed, 3-5 celled nearly to the apex ; style short ; stigma obtuse, slightly thickened, obscurely lobulate ; ovule3 pendu- 

 lous, 1 in each compartment. Fruit drupaceous. Seed pendulous with a minute embryo within the apex of a fleshy albumen. Glabrous trees. Leaves 

 alternate, coriaceous. Flowers small, in axillary cymes or fascicles, pedunculate or sessile. — Sphcerocarya, Dak. A. DC. Prod. xiv. 629. Lavallea, Baill. 



STROMBOSIA CEYLANICA. (Gardn.) A large tree, leaves ovate oblong glabrous acute at the apex paler beneath, about 5 

 inches long by 2 broad, petioles about h an inch long, flowers subsessile glomerate on very short scaly nodes which are axillary or on 

 the branches between the leaves, flowers 1-li lines long, calyx lobes rounded very small about -J- the length of the petals, stigma 4 lobed 

 ovary 4 celled, fruit (immature) pyriform scaly. Gard. in Gale. Jouru. of Nat. Hist. vol. vi. p. 350. Sphcerocarya leprosa, Dalz. 

 Rook. Jour, of Bot. iii. 34 and Bombay Flora, p- 223. S. Javanica, Thw. En. PI. Zeyl. (not Blume.) 



Ceylon, Canara ghats, a large timber tree, the wood is while and durable, the drawing and dissections are taken from a Ceylon 

 specimen. Fig. 1. and 2 of the ripe fruit a;e copied from Blume's figure of S. Javanica, a closely allied species, which differs in its pedunculate 

 inflorescence. I have only a poor specimen of the Ganara tree, it appears to be the same, but the style is longer and the stigma entire or 2 lobed. 



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