146 Notes on Indian Botany. 



5-toothed entire : corolla very short, 5-parted to the base, 

 divisions triangular : stamens 5 ; ovary sterile^ truncated, 

 5-furrowed : no style. 



Hab. — Malacca. Griffith. 



Obs. — The leaves, including the petiole, are about four 

 inches long, and one and a quarter broad, and end in a rather 

 abrupt linear pointed acumen, about half an inch long. The 

 character of the vernation in this species is important, as it 

 at once distinguishes it from the following, which it greatly 

 resembles in general appearance. The corymbs may be called 

 compound, the pedicels forming a double series, the first 

 coming off about the middle of the peduncle, the second 

 forming a simple terminal umbel. Flowers small: corolla 

 scarcely exceeding the calyx. 



4. Axanthes ceylanica, (R. W.) arborescent, glabrous ; 

 ramuli terete or obsoletely 4-sided, glabrous : stipules minute, 

 triangular : leaves lanceolate, acuminated, glabrous on both 

 sides, finely reticulated with slender brownish veinlets : in- 

 florescence umbellate, umbels simple, axillary, usually paired : 

 peduncles about the length of the petioles : calyx cup-shaped, 

 entire or slightly toothed : corolla rotate, 5-cleft: ovary 5-cel- 

 led, surmounted by an ovoid, fleshy, disk : style none : stigmas 

 5 : berry globose, about the size of a rather large pea. 



Hab. — Ceylon. 



Obs. — I gathered specimens of this in 1836, and afterwards 

 received others from Colonel Walker. I at first, on account 

 of its bisexual flowers, supposed that this was Blume's 

 A. corymbosa : discrepancies between his character and my 

 specimens induce me now to look upon it as a distinct spe- 

 cies. It is quite distinct from all the preceding, but most 



