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SELECTIONS. 
Thwaites' New Cinghalcse Plants. 
• No. II. 
On Tetracrypta and Kokoona, Genera of Ceylon Plants ; hy G. 
H. K. Thwaites, Esq^ Superintendent of the Royal Botanic 
Gardens, Peradenia, Ceylon. 
• (With two Plates, Tab. IV. V.) 
I. Teteaceypta, Gard. et Chainp. Nat. Ord. Hamamelidese ? 
{Anisophyllea, Br. ; Ajiisophyllinn, Don.) 
Tetracrypta cinnamomoides, Gard. et Cham]), in Hook. Journ. Bot. et 
Keiv Garden Misc. v. 1. ^.314-''. Anisophyllum Zeylanicum, 
Benth. in Niger Flora, p. 342, et Appendix, p. 575. Tab. IV. 
Hab. Mountains of the Central and Western Provinces of Ceylon ; 
alt. 3000 ped. Herb. Hort. Bot. Reg. Perad. n. 2205. Nom 
vern. *' WeUepeyenria.^' 
Arbor ramosa 40-50-pedalis, cortice laevi. Rami inferiores hori- 
zontales, superiores suberecti ; ramulis appresse puberulis. Folia 
disticha, coriacea, breve petiolata, lanceolata, cordato-acuminata, 
* The generic name has occasioned a great deal of confusion. Brown 
first proposed the genus, for a West African species that yields a large 
edible fruit (in Hort. Soc. Trans, vol. v. p. 446), under the name of An:- 
sophyllea, but gave no description. Don, in his West African collections, 
applied the name Anisophyllum, Don, MSS., to the same plant. Mr. 
Bentham, in the Niger Flora, took up Don's name for the West African 
plant, referred it doubtfully to Rhizopliorece, and added in a note a des- 
cription of the Ceylon species draAvn up from Mr. Walker's specimens. 
In the same year, or perhaps the previous year, Gardner an^l Champion 
published Tetracrypta in the ' Madras Journal of Science' we believe, and 
subsequently in the Kew Garden Miscellany, and refen-ed it to Hamame- 
lidecB. In the supplement to the Niger Flora Mr. Bentham points this 
out, and states that the name AnisopJiyllea of Brown has the priori t.-. 
