MYRSINE CAPITELLATA. (Nat. order Myrsiiieee.) 



MYR8INE. Linn. — GEN. CHAR. Calys free 4-5 toothed, corol deeply 4-5 lobed. Stamens inserted at the base of the corol-lobe3 sessile or 

 subaessile, the anthers erect and lanceolate, oi-ary superior, style short with a capitate or fringed stigma. Trees or shrubs, leaves coriaceous entire or 

 rarely toothed, flowers small often polygamous in umbels or clusters, sessile ia the axils or at the nodes usually on the old wood, bracts minute 

 deciduous. 



M.YRSINE CAPITELLATA. (Wall.) A tree, often polygamous, leave3 glabrous coriaceous lanceolate elliptic or oblong 

 or narrow obovate 3-4 (rarely 7) inches long by f-l£ broad, obtuse or bluntly acuminated, gradually narrowed at the base into the 

 petiole quite entire punctate, pale beneath, the lateral veins inconspicuous, petioles 4-6 lines long, flowers very small greenish with red 

 glandular raised blotches on the corol and calyx, fascicled in small clusters in the old axils or nodes, pedicels 1-2 lines long rarely 

 wanting, braotes imbricate ovate, calyx 5 toothed minutely gland-ciliate, corol about 2 lines long, deeply 5 cleft slightly ciliate, anthers 

 sessile or subsessile, stigma blunt or 2-3 lobed, fruit globose 2 lines in diameter, reddish when ripe. Wall. Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 295. 



This tree is very common on the Nilgiris, particularly about Ootaeamund, and is also found throughout our western mountains and 

 in Ceylon, from no great elevation up to the highest altitudes ; its timber is hard and durable and used for various purposes by the 'natives ; thi 

 fruit is eaten, it is very variable as to the shape and size of the leaves and length of the pedicels. 



Analysis. 



1. Fruiting branch (magnified.) 



2. A flower bud, showing the valvate petals and the raised glandular marks on the calyx and corol, 



3. A full flower. 



4. Oorol removed, showing its ciliate lobes and perfectly sessile Etamens. 



5. Anthers, front and back view. 



6. Fertile flower, corol removed, the stigma 3-lobed. 



7. Ovary cut vertically, showing the solitary erect ovule, 



8. Ovary cut transversely. 



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