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14. TERNSTE(EMIACEiE. 



\_Etirya, 



E. japonica, Thunb. Fl. Jap. 191. t. 25; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 92; Fl. 

 Br. I. 1. 284. 



Eastern Himalaya ; Sikkim, alt. 5 — 30,000 ft., Khasia Mountains, alt. 

 3 — 6000 ft., E. and W. Peninsulas and Ceylon, ascending- to 7000 feet. 

 Beddome says it is found at low elevations on the W. side of the 

 Madras Presidency. 1 have found it on the Bababudon Hills of Mysore 

 at about 6000 ft., but have no account of it from any station in the 

 Bombay Presidency except that given by Lisboa in his Useful Plants of 

 Bombay and v^^hich requires confirmation. This tree flowers in Mysore 

 during November, Fr. ripe J anuary. 



Wood brown, soft, close-grained, sometimes used for fuel. 



2. GORDONIA, Ellis. 



Evergreen trees. Leaves usually crenate. Flowers large, white, 

 fragrant, solitary axillary or collected at the ends of the branches, 

 2-4 bracteokte, Sepals usually 5, unequal, graduating- from the 

 bracts to the petals. Petals free, the innermost larger. Stamens 

 5-adelphous or all connate, adnate to the petals. Ovary 8-5 celled ; 

 stigma stout, spreading ; ovules 4-8 in each cell. Capsule oblong, 

 woody, angled, dehiscent. Seeds flat, winged, albumen 0. 



G. obtusa, Wall. Cat. 1459 ; Fl. Br, I. 1. 291 ; Bedd Fl. Sylv. 

 t. 83, 



Western Peninsula from the Konkan southwards at an elevation of 

 2500 — 7000 ft. Common on the Mgiris. I have found it on the Baba- 

 buden Hills of Mysore, in the evergreen sholas, at an elevation of 5000 

 ft., but it has not yet been found in the Bombay Presidency as far as I 

 know. Lisboa mentions it in his Useful Plants of Bombay, but, similarly 

 to Eurya japonicaj this observation requires confirmation. Flowers 

 May- June. Fr. Nov. -Jan. 



Order 14 DIPTEROCARPE^. 



Trees abounding in resin, rarely climbing shrubs. Leaves entire, 

 alternate, simple, with lateral parallel nerves ; stipules deciduous, con- 

 volute. Flowers usually sweet-scented, regular, bisexual, in few or 

 many- flowered axillary and terminal racemes or panicles. Bracts 

 minute or 0, rarely larger and persistent. Calyx 5-lobed, tube free 

 or very short and adnate to the base of the ovary, 2 or more lobes 

 usually accrescent in fruit. Petals 5, contorted, connate at the base 

 or free. Stamens 5-infinite, hypogynous, or sub-perygynous, free 

 connate or adnate to the petals ; filaments short, dilated at the base ; 

 anthers 2-celled, connective, often aristate or with an obtuse append- 

 age. Ovary slightly immersed in the torus, 1-3 celled ; ovules 2 in 

 each cell, pendulous, laterally affixed or erect; style subulate or 

 fleshy. Fruit usually winged ; seeds 1-2, exalbuminous (albuminous 



