GIRONNIEEA. RETICULATA. (Nat. order Urticese.) 



GlRONNIERA, Gaud. — GEN. CHAR. Flowers small disecious male aud female, no hermathrodite, in axillary cymes or branched racemes, 

 perianth of 4-5 segments imbricate in the burl. Male, stamens 4-5 opposite the perianth-segments with or without an abortive ovary, filaments slightly 

 incurved. Female, no stamens present, ovary with 1 pendulous ovule, style I, stigmas 2 long aud filiform, drupe slightly compressed. Trees or shrubs, 

 eaves alternate, stipules large free convolute covering tbe terminal buds (as in Ficus) deciduous — Heltuinthospermum, Thw. Nematostigma, Planchon. 



GrIRONNIERA RETICULATA. (Tliw.) A large timber tree, young parts sparingly adpresso-pilose but soon glabrous, 

 leaves very hard coriaceous ovate to oblongo-ovate generally with a long acumination, glabrous in age on both sides and shining above, 

 3-5|- inches long by l|-2§ broad, peuniveiued and prominently reticulated, the 9-14 primary veins on each side much raised and 

 prominent beneath, petioles 2-4 lines long, stipules long linear-lanceolate as in the generic character. Male flowers in panicles 

 axillary or between the leaves, perianth segments 5 rounded obtuse pubemlous or subglabrous, abortive ovary generally wanting. 

 Female flowers solitary axillary pedicellate, drupe glabrous ovoid a little compressed attenuated at the apex, 6 lines long by 4 lines 

 broad, crowned with the remains of the stigmas. Thw. En. PL Zey. p. 2G8. 



This valuable timber tree is found on our Oliat forests up to ZOOOfeel elevation, from South Canata down to Travancore and Tinnevelly, 

 and it also inhabits Ceylon ; the wood is very hard and heavy, and is a v aluable engineering timber. In Tinnevelly the tree is called Koditdni. 

 The specimen figured was collected on the Carcoor ghat fWynad), and as 1 could not find the female tree I hate added dissections of both female 

 (Hid male from another species, the O. subwqualis. 



Analysis. 



The plate gives a branch of the male tree in flower. 



1. Portion of male inflorescence. 



2. A male flower bud. 



3. Male flower. 



4. A male flower open. 



5. Anthers, front and back view. (Drawn from living specimens.) 



GlEONNIEKA SUB^QDAUS. 



6. Branch of male tree. 



7. Male flower bud. 



8. Male flower open. 



9. Anther, front view. 



10. Anther, back view. 



11. Abortive style. 



12. Branch of female tree. 

 13 & 13a. Female flowers. 



14 & 15. Female flowers cut vertically, shewing the solitary pendulous ovule. 

 16 & 17. Seed. 



18. Ovule. (16, 17 & 18 copied from Blume's drawings, the rest from dried specimens.) 



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