LASIANTHERA APIOAULIS. (Nat. order Olacineae.) 



LASIANTHERA. P. cle Beauvois.— GEN. CHAR. Flowers hermaphrodite (or polygamous.) Calyx shortly and broadly 5 lobed. Petals 5 

 liypogyuous, valvate in aestivation. Disk fleshy, unilateral or inompicuous. Stameus 5, alternate with the petals, free or adnate at the base to the 

 petals ; anthers tufted behind with a pencil of soft hairs. Orary free, 1 celled, narrowed above ; stigma minute. Ovules geminate, pendulous. Fruit 

 coriaceous, oblong. Seed pendulous, with a small embryo within the apex of a fleshy album ^u. Glabrous trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate entire. Flowers 

 «mali, capitate; peduncles umbellate, leaf opposed. — Stemnnurus, Blame Bijdr. ex parte. Urandra, Thw. in Hook. Kew Jour, of Bot- vol. vii. p. 211. 



LASIANTHERA APICAULIS. (Tdw.) A very large tree, branches terete glabrous, leaves entire very coriaceous, oblong 

 or obovato-oblong abruptly shortly-acuminate ; narrowed at the base paler beneath 4-6 inches long by 2-3 inches broad, petioles 5-8 

 lines long, peduncles axillary solitary or twice shorter thau or about the length of the petiole, capitula 7-12 flowered, flowers herma- 

 throdite, petals greenish, purple towards the base about 2 lines long, drupe oblong sub acute I J inches long more than J an inch 

 broad »teenish purple, putamen woody with several longitudinal cavities filled with soft cellular matter externally fasciculate fibrous, 

 testa consolidated with the pericarp. Thw. En. PI. Zey. p. 43 and 405. 



Ceylon in damp forests 1000 to 3000 feet elevation, called Urukanu ; the dissections are communicated by Dr. Thwaites. 



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