APOLLONIAS ARNOTTII. (Nat, order LaurineuB.) 



ApOLLONIAS, Uees. — GEN. CHAR. Flowers herinathrodite, calyx infundibuliform 6-cleft p ersistent, lobes subequal. Stamens 9 

 fertile, filaments filiform, the 3 inner ones furnished with 2 stipitate glands at the base, anthers oblong all 2-ceiled, the 6 outer introrse, the 3 inner 

 ektorrse ; staminodes 3. Style short, stigma depresso-subcapitate, berry oval surrounded at the base by the 6-lobed enlarged hardened calyx. Trees, leaf- 

 buds naked, leaves peuniveined, panicles axillary and subterminal, flowers small naked. 



This genus differs from Phcebe in its 2-celled anthers, and from Hassia in its -persistent calyx. 



APOLLONIAS A.ENOTTII. (Nees.) A good sized tree, young parts adpressedly serioeo-puberulous, leaves cliartaceous 

 lanceolate or oblongo-lanceolate attenuated at both ends much acuminated, delicately immerso-retieulated and somewhat prominently 

 ribbed, glabrous and shining above, sparingly puberulous beneath, 2^-5-J inches long by f-lj inch broad, petiole slender 3-5 lines 

 long, panicles 1-2 inch long sparingly puberulous or at length glabrous racemifurm, branchlets generally 1-flowered, berry about \ an 

 inch long. Nees ; — DO. Prod. zv. p. 65 ; — Wight Icones tab. 1819. 



This tree is found on the Tinnevelly and Travancore ghat', and in Malabar. The figure is copied from Br. Wight's Icones, as I have 

 mislaid my specimens ; it has quite the appearance of Phcebe lanceolata, but that genus has ^-celled anthers. The timber is quite unknown, but 

 would probably be of superior quality. 



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