KOKOONA ZETLANIOA. (Nat. order Celastrinea.) 



K.OKOONA. Thw. — GEN. CHAR. Calyx small 5 lobed, petals 5 coriaceous, contorted in cestivation, glanduloso-punctate, stamens 5 inserted near 

 the margin of the disk, filaments thick, subulate, anthers oblong, disk thick, glandular obscurely angled, ovary semi-immersed in the disk 3-celled, styles Bhort 

 thick, stigma 3-lobed, ovary-cells 4-12 ovuled, ovules in 2 series adnate to the axis, ascending, capsule rather woody oblong trigonal, 3-celled 3-valved dehiscing 

 loculicidally, seeds imbricate furnished with a long wing, cotyledons plane, embryo exalbuminous. Large ramous glabrous trees, leaves opposite petioled 

 coriaeeous, cymes axillary paniculate, flowers small. Thw. in Booh. Kew Journ. v. p. 379. Trigonocarpus, Wall, Cat. 6250, 



KoKOONA ZeYLANICA. (Thw.) A large tree, leaves obovate or retuse narrowed towards tlie petiole obscurely and 

 remotely crenulate, glabrous, minutely punctate beneatb, 2-4 inches long by 1|-1| broad, capsule about 4 inches long, seeds 3£ inches 

 long of which the wing is 2J. Thw. I. c. and En. PI. Zey. p. 52. 



A large tree peculiar to Ceylon, not uncommon on banks of streams in the Stiff 'ragram and Ambagamowa districts at an elevation of 

 20OO-4OOO/ee«, called by the Singhalese Kokoon ; the inner yellow bark is employed medicinally and an oil is expressed from the seeds, which is 

 used in lamps. A second species of this genus inhabits Borneo. The analysis in the drawing is from the pencil of Dr, Thwaites. 



1. Ovules. 2. Young seeds. 3. Full grown seed, life-size. /. /» ty ^£> 



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