GYRINOPS WALLA. (Nat. order Thymelace*.) 



GYRINOPS, GceHn. — GEN. CHAR. Perianth colored tubular slender, the limb 5-parted, scales 5, gland-like hid in a dense ring of hairs 

 iu the jaws of the tube, anthers 5 sessile in the jaws of the tube, included, opposite the segments of the perianth affixed by their back, hypogynous scales 

 none. Ovary on a long stipe attenuated at both ends pubescent 2-celled, cells 1-ovuled, style terminal cylindric deciduous, stigma flattened globose 

 undivided. Capsule stipitate coriaceous loculicidally 2-valved, seed solitary. Gcertn, Fr. 2. 



GrYRINOPS VlALLA. (Gtertn.) A small tree or large shrub, young parts sericeous, branches slender of an orange 

 yellow color, as is the whole plant ; leaves oblongo-elliptic more or less acuminate sub coriaceous very glabrous in age, densely transverse- 

 venose, (as iu Calophyllum) 2-4 inches long by f-lf inches broad, petioles channelled about 3 lines long, inflorescence sericeous, 

 peduncles axillary or from the old axils or from the stem between the leaves, 2 lines long 3-8 flowered, pedicels 2-3 lines long, bracteoles 

 linear lanceolate chaffy about 3 lines long, sericeous on the outside glabrous within very early caducous, perianth orange colored 4-6 

 lines long attenuated at the ba3e, lobes about 1 line long ovate patent. Capsule spathulato-obovate compressed shortly apiculate 6-8 

 lines long. DC- Prod, xiv. 602 ; — Wight Icones tab. 1850. 



A very elegant little tree common about Badagam near Oalle, and the warmer parts of the south of Ceylon, called Walla by the 

 Singalese ; the bark yields a very strong fibre. 



Analysis, 



1. A flower bud. 



2. A flower. 



3. A flower cut open, shewing the insertion of the sessile stameua and the dense ring of hairs just within the apex of the tube ; 



5 yellow glands are hid within this hair. 



3a. One of the glands removed from the ring of hairs. 



4. An anther. 



5. Stipitate ovary, style and stigma. 



6. Ovary cut vertically. 



7. Ovary cut transversely. 



8. Fruit. (Drawn from flowers in spirits.) 



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