PYRULAR1A WALLICHIANA. (Nat. order Santalacese.) 



"YRULARIA, Mich. — GKN. CHAR. Flowers herrnathrodite and male, the male subglobose, the hermathrodite turbinate, perianth 5-4- 

 fid, lobes imbricate (or valvate ?) each furnished on the inside near the base with a hairy scale, stamens in both hermathrodite and male as many as the 

 perianth lobes opposite to them and iuserted ac their base just under the margin of the disk, filaments short entire or bifid at the apex, anthers ellipsoid 

 2-celled, cells distinct dehiscing longitudinally, disk cupuliform the margin 5- lobed, the lobes thick entire or emarginate alternate with the segments of the 

 perianth, ovary in the male flowers obsolete, style thick 4-grooved, stigma 4-(3-) lobed, ovary in the hermathrodite flowers inferior, placenta erect tapering 

 at length twisted, ovules 2^4 diverging and pendant from the apex of the placenta, drupe inferior pyrirorm crowned at the depressed umbilicate apex with 

 the lobes of the perianth, putamen 1-seeded. Trees or shrubs, often armed, leaves alternate entire, flowers in axillary spikes. Mick. Fl. Bor. Am- 2 p. 234. 

 Hamiltouia, Muhlenb. not Roxb. Sphserocarya, Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 371. Scleropyrum, Am. in Mag. of Zool. and Sot. ii. 550, 



PrRULARIA vv ALLICHIANA. (Wight.) A middling sized or small tree, trunk very thorny, young parts reddish, 

 branchlets terete armed glabrous, leaves coriaceous glabrous ovate or ovato-Ianceolate acute or obtuse shining above paler beneath, 

 3-6 inches long by l|-3 inches broad, penniveined, the veins distant 3-4 on each side, petioles 2-4 lines long, spikes axillary or from the 

 old axils solitary or several together, the male very densely flowered 1-1^- inches long, the flowers reddish globose, each with a minute 

 hairy bract, perianth hairy on the outside 5-(4-) lobed (5 in all the flowers I have examined), lobes distinctly imbricate, filaments flat 

 bifid at the apex, ovary obsolete, style thick angular, stigma 4-lobed, lobes erect acute 2 larger than the others, the hermathrodite laxly 

 flowered 2-4 inches long, the flowers turbinate 4-5 lines long, hairy on the outside, each with a small bract at the base, stamens smaller 

 than in the male but bearing pollen, stigma 4-lobed larger than in the male flower, lobes spreading, fruit about \\ inches long. — 

 Sphrerocarya Wallichiana, Wight ; — WA. in Edin, Journ. 15. p. 180. Scleropyrum Wallichiana, Arnt. ; — Wight 1 cones tab. 241. 

 Idu-mulli, Eheed. Mai. 4 t. 18. Pyrularia Wallichiana et Ceylanica, DC. Prod. xiv. 629. 



This tree is most abundant in Coorg and in parts of Wynaad, 3-5000 feet elevation, but I have not observed it ehevihere in this pre- 

 sidency ; it is also found in Ceylon (4-GOOO feet J . The wood is light colored and curiously grained,, and is in use in Ceylon for ordinary purposes. 



Analysis. 

 The figure represents a branch with mala inflorescence only. 



1. Male'spike. 

 2 & 3. Male flowers, shewing the imbricate lobes of the perianth, 

 3ff. The 4-lobed style of the male flower. 



4. Anthers, front view. 



5. Anthers, back view.' 



6. Portion of the perianth and disk, shewing the hairy scales on the inside of. the segments of the former and the insertion 



of the stamens. 



7. Hermathrodite inflorescence. 



8. Hermathrodite flower (lobes imbricate) and bract. 



9. Hermathrodite flower and ovary cut vertically. 

 10. Fruit. 



(The male drawn from living specimens, the hermathrodite from flowers ia spirits.) 



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