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Fm. 164. Biospyros nilagirica, Becld. ^, 



glabi'oiis, shining, ovate, blade 3-6, pet. | in. M. : ^^ in small rusty tomentose 

 cymes with large long-ciliate bracts, cal. cylindrical, nearl}?- truncate, corolla 

 tubular, tomentose outside ; ? solitary, calyx cupshaped, truncate, fr. ovoid- 

 cylindric, 1 by I- in., supported by the cup-shaped slightly enlarged calyx, 

 albumen xmiform. 



Evergreen forests of the Western Ghats from the Konkan bonthwardis. 3?L Jan.- 

 March. Ceylon. Heartwood regularly streaked with black bands, somewhat like 

 Calamander wood, the produee of D. epicesita, Thw., a large tree of the moist low 

 country of Ceylon. 



/3, (J fl. in pedunculate panicles. 



4 D. paniculata, Dalz. ; Bedd. Ic. t. 125. 



A middle-sized, at times a tall tree, glabrous, except inflorescence. L. 

 chartaceous or coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, blade 4-7, pet. broad | in. long, 

 closely reticulate raised veins between the sec. nerves, conspicuous on both 

 surfaces. El. large, pentamerous, calyx of both sexes large with reflexed 

 edges, corolla hairy. (^ in long drooping bracteate pubescent panicled cymes, 

 bracts large, foliaceous, peduncle 1|- in. long, stamens 20, glabrous in pairs. 

 ? solitary, sometimes in pairs, on bracteate pedicels | in, long. Er. hairy 

 while young, ovoid 1| in. long, supported by the enlarged foliaceous calyx. 



Evergreen forests along tbe Western Ghats, from the Konkan southwards. Common 

 in Travancore. El. Dec-March. Wood streaked with black. 



{!)) Corolla of ^ fi. hairy, 1. hairy. 



5. B. pruriens, Dalz. ; Bedd. lo. t. 129. Western Ghats from North Kanara south- 

 wards, in evergreen forests, very common throughout the Wainad. Ceylon. A small 

 or middle-sized tree, branch lets villous with long yello-v^ish hairs, 1 chartaceous, 

 elliptic-oblong, 2-4 in. long when full grown, softly tomentose beneath, chiefly along 

 midrib and sec. n., pet. short. El. 4- or 5-merous, calyx haiiy on both sides, corolla 



