Saecopotiilum.] 



4. A NGN ACE -v.. 



9 



iuncr much larger, erect, or conniving, base saccate. Stamens indc- 

 iinite ; connective produced into a conspicuous appendage. Ovaries 

 indefinite, ovules 6 or more. Ripe carpels sub-globose. 



S. tomentosum, H. f. & T. PI. Ind. 1S2. Fl. Br. T. 1.88 ; Bedd. Fl. 

 Sylv. 10 ; Brandifi For. Fl. 7 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 4. Eoom, H. ; 

 Wiimhj K. 



Nepal Terai ; Guzerat ; Rajpntana, Central India, Behav, Orisfwi, 

 and evergreen forests of the Western Ghats from the Konkan to 

 Travancore. A tall deciduous tree with thick brown, cracked and fur- 

 rowed bark. Wood olive-brown, moderately hard, smooth and close- 

 grained, mottled, no heart wood. Weighs 45 lbs. to the cubic foot. 

 Used for building purposes. Leaves are shed in March* Flowers and 

 young leaves in April. Fruit June. 



8. OROPHEA, Blume. 



Trees or shrubs. Flowers small, axillary, solitary, fascicled or cymose. 

 Sepals 3, valvate. Inner petals clawed, cohering into a mitriform cap. 

 Stamens definite, 6-12, fleshy ; anther-cells large, contiguous ; con- 

 nective ix)inted, not truncate. Ovaries 3-15 ; ovules 4. Ripe carpels 

 often globose. 



O. zeylanica, EL f. & T. FL Ind. Ill ; Fl. Br. 1. 1. 90 ; Bedd. FL Sylv. 

 11. 



Western Peninsula from N. Kanara to Coorg, also in the Central 

 Provinces of Ceylon. In N. Kanara it is abundant in the evergreen 

 forests near the " Yena Rocks" (Kumpfca sub-division), and is scarcely 

 anything more than a small shrub, which flowers and fruits at different 

 times throaghont the year. 



9. SAGERAEA, Dalz. 



Trees. Flowers small, terminal, axillary or fascicled on woody tuber- 

 cles, 1-2 sexual. Sepals 3, ovate, imbricate. Petals 6 in 2 series, imbri- 

 cate, nearly equal, usually concave. Stamens 6-21, imbricate in 2 or 

 more series, thick, fleshy, connective produced. Ovaries 3-6; 

 ovules 1 or 2—8 on the ventral suture. Ripe carpels globose, stalked. 



In his Anonacese of British India, Dr. King has separated Sagercea^ 

 from Bocagea^ St. Hilaire, to which genus it had been united in the PL 

 Br. I. by Sir J. Hooker. The extreme imbrication of the sepals and 

 petals in Sageraea, appears to Dr. King an insurmountable objection 

 to its being included in BoeagecL Baillon also in his Histoire Naturelle 

 des Plantes retains Sageraea, as a separate genus. It should therefore 

 be included in the section of the tribe Uvajriess with imbricating 

 sepals. Bocagea, St. Hilaire, a tropical, Asian and S. American genua, 

 has the -sepals and petals valvate and belongs to the tribe Unoneae. 



S. laurina, Dalz. in Kew Jour. Bot, .3. 207 ; Dalz. & Gibe. Bomb. FL 

 2 J King Anon. Br. I. 7. S, Dalzellii, Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. Bocagea 

 B 987—2 



