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ANISOPHYLLEA ZEYLANICA. (Nat. order Rhizophoracese.) 



ANISOPHYLLEA. Brown — GEN. CHAR. Calyx tube ovoid or oblong, aduate to the 07ary, terete or costate, limb 4-parted, lobes erect, 

 petals 4, involute, entire 2-lobed or lacerate; stamens 8 inserted with the petals, filaments short subulate, anthers small didymous ovary inferior 4 celled, 

 styles 4, subula;e erect or recurved, apex acute orsubeapitate stigmatuse, ovules solitary in the cells, pendulous. Fruit coriaceous, oblong costate 1-seeded, 

 seed pendulous, testa coriaceous, embryo exalbuminous clavate axial, cotyledons very minute or obsolete. Trees or shrubs, glabrous, or the young parts 

 sericeous, leaves distiehously alternate, petiolate, the alternate ones smaller or minute and stipuliform, obliquely ovoid or lanceolate 3-5-nerved entire 

 exstipulate, flowers in simple axillary spikes, small or minute ebracteolate or minutely bractoolate. — Tetracrypta, Qar&n. 



ANISOPHYLLEA ZEYLANIC A (Bentk.) A tree, young parts minutely puberulous, leaves obliquely ovoid to lanceolate 

 rounded or attenuate at the base tapering into a long aoumiuation at the apes, very hird and coriaceous, glabrous except the primary 

 veins which are minutely puberulous beneath aud occasionally slightly so above, 4-5 inches long by 1J-2 broad, 3-5 nerved 3-4 of which 

 are very prominent and raised beneath ; the alternate stipuliform leaves very minute, petioles 3 lines long, minutely puberulous ra- 

 cemes about f inch long puberulous bracteolate, calyx about 2 lines long puberulous on the outside, lobes persistent, fruit oblong attenua- 

 ted at the apex, costate, indehiscent. Benth. in Flora. Niger. Tetracrypta cinnammoides, Gard. and Champ- in Hook. Journ. of 

 Bot. 1. p. 314 and v. p. 378. t. 5. 



A tree, found in the southern and central parts of Ceylon up to an elevation of 1500 feet, called Wellapeyenna ; the structure and germi- 

 nation of the seed are the same as in Barringtonia and Gareya, the minute stipuliform leaves represented in the figure are absent in my dried speai~ 

 mens, so I presume they are deciduous. The wood is used for building purposes. I am indebted to Br. Thwaites for the drawing. 



Analysis. 



1-2. Apex of growing branch. 



3. A full flower. 



4. A petal. 



5. Anthers. 



6. A flower cut vertically, showing the solitary pendulous ovules. 



7. Ovary cut transversely, showing the 4 cells. 



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