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Selections. 
[no. 4, NEW SERIES, 
basi angustata, 5-nervia, utrinque glaberrima ; juniora rubra ; 
paria vernatione opposita dissimilia squamaeformia, unico 5-nervi 
niarginibus involutis demum explanato foliaceo, altero 1-nervi 
piano stipulara referente cito deciduo. liacemi supra-axillares, 
solitarii v. gemini, strigoso-puberuli. Flores parvi, subsessiles, 
bracteati. Bractece minutse. Calycis limhus superus, 4-fidus, 
lobis acutis, valvulis persistentibus. Petala mintita, carnosula, 
laciniata, sQstivatione induplicativa, segmentis 5 linearibus su- 
bulatis. Stamina 8, alterna breviora, filamentis subulatis calyce 
insertis ; antheris versatilibus lorigitudinaliter dehiscentibus. 
Stijli 4, erecti, eonico-subulati ; stigmatibus c^piitatis. Ovarium 
4.1oculare ; loculis l-ovulatis ; ovulis pendulis anatropis. Fruc- 
tus indehiscens, abortu l-spermus. Semen pendulum, albumi- 
nosum? 
This is abandsome tree, 40 feet and upwards in height : its wood 
is very hard and valued by the Cinghalese for building purposes. 
Young stems and leaves downy, of a bright-red colour. The dissi- 
milarity in the pairs of young leaves is very remarkable, one being 
flat, single-nerved, and soon falling away, whilst the other is five- 
nerved, has involute margins, grows rapidly, and is carried up by 
the elongating stem to some distance above the smaller one. Old 
leaves coriaceous, disUchous, alternate, shortly petioled, 3-4 inches 
long, 1 inch broad, lanceolate, tapering to a long narrow blunt 
point : nerves five, strong, parallel. Racemes single or in pairs 
from the upper part of a large scar, which extends upwards from 
the axil of the leaf, pendulous or nodding, 1-1 1 inch long, pube- 
scent, eight-to twelve-flowered." Floioers nearly sessile, with small 
bracts, white, 1 line long, pubescent. Calyx oi four valvate co- 
riaceous green lobes. Corolla of as many small incurved white 
petals, seated on the calyx, split below the middle into subulate 
laciniaB. Stamens eight, alternately longer and short ; filaments 
subulate ; anthers versatile ; pollen minute, elliptical, with a dark 
Under these circumstances we have thought it desirable to retain the name 
Tdracrypta, both because it was accompanied with the first published 
account of the genus, and because it was the only one to which Mr. 
Thwaites appears to have had access, 
