86 



27. OLACINE^. 



[GomphandA^a. 



G. axillaris, Wall. Cat. 3718; Fl. Br. I. 1. 586 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 61. 



Platea axillaris, Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 28. 



Western Peninsula from the Konkan southwards, CeyloD. Common in 

 the evergreen forests of the Konkan and North Kanara ghats, Fl. April- 

 Maj. Fr. Nov. 



7. APODYTES, E. Meyer. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves simple, alternate, coriaceous or membran- 

 ous, drying" black. Flowers small, in terminal or axillary corymbose 

 cymes. Calyx minute, cup-shaped, 5-toothed. Petals 5, free, valvate. 

 Stamens 5, alternate with the petals ; anthers basifixed, bilobed, 

 sagittate. Ovary gibbous ; style excentric ; ovules 2, superposed. 

 Drupe obliquely ovoid, compressed ; embryo small, in the apex of the 

 fleshy albumen. 



A. Beddomei, Mast. Fl, Br. I, 1. 588. A, Benthamiana, Yar. y8, Bedd. 

 Fl- Syl. 140. 



On the Dodmune ghat of North Kanara, in evergreen forests. Fl. 

 March. Fr. E,. S. A tree 50 ft. high by 1*5 ft. in diameter at the base. 

 Bark '5 in. thick, rhytidome dark, rough, scaly with short gaping fissures 

 in the corky layer, reddish white just under the rhytidome. Wood 

 whitish, hard and tough. 



8. SARCOSTIGMA, W. & A. 



Climbing shrubs. Leaves simple, coriaceous. Flowers dioecious, 

 minute, in long interrupted spikes. Calyx cup-shaped. Petals 4-5, 

 cohering in a short tube, free upwards, valvate. Males : Stamens 4-5. 

 Females: Staminodes 4-5. Ovary 1 -celled ; ovules 2, pendulous. 

 Funicle expanded into an obturator. Drupes with a woody nut ; 

 albumen ; cotybdons fleshy, wrapping round the short radicle. 



S. Kleinii, W. & A. in Ediu. New Phil. Jour. XIV. 299 ; Fl. Br. I. 1. 

 694; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 221. 



Eastern and Western Peninsula, in the evergreen forests along the 

 Konkan, North Kdnara and Belgaum ghdts; common in the forests near 

 the falls of Gairsoppah. Fl. Nov. Fr. ripe during May. 



9. MAPPIA, Jacq. 



Trees. Leaves alternate, simple. Flowers foetid in corymbose 

 cymes. Calyx 5-toothed. Petals 5, usually hairy within. Stamens 5, 

 alternate \^ith the petals. Disk hypogynous, cup-shaped. Ovary- 

 superior, 1-celled ; ovules 2, pendulous. Fruit a drupe ; albumen 

 fleshy j cotyledons leafy ; radicle superior. 



M. oblonga, Miers Contrib. I. 65 ; Fl. Br. 1. 1. 589 ; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 28. GuVy Icalgur, M. ; Koclsa, hedaj-e, K. 



Western Peninsula from the Konkan southwards ; common on the North 

 Kanara and Konkan ghats, mostly in moist evergreen forests. A large 



