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Thwaites 9 New Cinghalese Plants. 

 No. II. 



On Tetracrypta and Kokoona, Genera of Ceylon Plants ; by G. 



H. K. Thwaites, Esq., Superintendent of the Royal Botanic 

 Gardens, Peradenia, Ceylon. 



(With two Plates, Tab. IV. V.) 



I. Tetracrypta, Gard. et Champ. Nat. Ord, Hamamelidea) ? 



(A?iisophyllea, Br. ; A?iisophyllum, Don.) 



Tetracrypta cinnamomoides, Gard. et Champ, in Hook. Joum. Pot. et 

 Keiv Garden Misc. v. I. p. 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. Pcrad. n. 2205. Nom 

 vcrn. " Welle peyennaJ y 



Arbor ramosa 40-50-pedalis, cortice lcevi. 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 W est 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 RhizophorecB, and added in a note a des- 

 cription of the Ceylon species drawn up from Mr. Walker's specimens. 

 In the same year, or perhaps the previous year, Gardner and Champion 

 published Tetracrypta in the ' Madras Journal of Science' we believe, and 

 subsequently in the Kew Garden Miscellany, and referred it to Hamame- 

 lidece. In the supplement to the Niger Flora Mr. Bentham points this 

 out, and states that the name Anisophyllea of Brown has the priority. 



