WEIHEA ZEYLANIOA. (Nat. order Rhizophoracese.) 



WBIHEA, Spreng. — GEKT. CHAR. 2 bracteoles connate into a cup, enclosing the flower bud, more distant when the flower expands. Calyx 

 tube very shortly turbinate adnate to the base of the ovary, limb 4-5 parted, the segments valvate at length spreading or reflexed, petals 4-6 inserted 

 under the margin of the obscure disk, unguiculate spathulate fimbriately lacerated ; stamens 10-30 inserted on the disk, filaments filiform, anthers 

 oblong, ovary superior adnate to the base of the calyx ovoid-glotose 3-5 sulcate or lobed 2-4-celIed, style filiform, stigma 2-4-lobed, ovules 2 in each cell 

 collateral pendulous, fruit globose fleshy 3-4 celled, tardily septicidally 3-4-valvate, valves thick, cells 1-2 seeded. Seed arillate ovoid compressed and 

 subtrigonal, testa coriaceous, albumen fleshy, embryo straight, cotyledons plane elliptic venose, radicle terete. Trees or shrubs, leaves glabrous opposite, 

 petiolate, entire or obtusely serrate penniveined, stipules interpetiolar (as in Eubiaceaj) deciduous, peduncles axillary solitary or fascicled 1-flowered, 

 — Anstrutheria, Qard. in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist, vi. 344, t. 4. Eichiaja, Thouars Qtn. Nov. Maiag. 25. 



\V EIHAE ZeYLANICA, (Gardn.) A small tree, leaves olong to elliptic more or less rounded at the base or gradually 

 attenuated, gradually or rather suddenly produced into an acute or. obtuse point at the apex, veins penniveined and looped, glabrous, 

 submembranceous 2-5 inches long, by f -2 inches broad, petioles glabrous or slightly hairy 2-3 lines long, stipules oblong hairy 

 caducous, peduncles solitary or 2 in the axils, about as long as the petioles, bracteoles ciliate, flowers about f inch long, 5-merous, 

 calyx segments reflexed hairy on the outside and ciliate, glabrous within, stamens about 25, anthers subbasifixed, petals a little longer 

 than the calyx, lobes lacerated into about 10 fimbriations, ovary and the 3 -lobed style hairy. — Anstrutheria Zeylanica, Gardn- in 

 Gale- Journ. of Nat His. vol- vi. p. 344. t. 4. 



A small tree not uncommon on the South Tinnevdly and Travancore mountains at no great elevation, also in Ceylon (Galle and 

 Trincomalee), in/lower in September. 



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