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high, and often a single plant is of a size convenient for a 
herbarium specimen. . Owing to the kindness and assistance 
of F. Lewis, Esq., Assistant Conservator of Forests, Î was 
able to make a tour through the Peak Wilderness, where 
this species proved to be very abundant in local areas. 
In the vicinity of Magala, Kadawatta, and Eratna, on rocky 
sandy soils and along precipitous streams, this species attains 
a height of 6,000-9,000 mm. (20-30 feet) and a circumference 
of about 300 mm. (1 foot). It has also been found in the 
Marakelle forest, Kuruwiti korale (Lewis). Also occurs in 
Bombay and Mysore. 
Oissp^ros atténua ta, Thw. Enum. Cey. PL, p. 182, 
n. 18 (1860). 
Kadumberiya, S. 
Thw. Enum. 182 (1860). Fl. B. Ind. III., 561. C. P. 
3,478. Bedd. Ic. FI. Ind. Or. t. 139. Hiern, Mon. Eben. 182. 
A small tree rarely exceeding 1^ feet in circumference 
and 20 feet in height, bearing flowers when trunk one inch 
(25 mm.) diameter ; forms a mat of roots at the base ; ever¬ 
green, dioecious ; young shoots sparingly puberulous, quickly 
glabresceiit ; bark black, not scaly, red when freshly cut ; 
branches and foliage present a weeping habit, branches 
given off low down. 
Leaves ( cf . D. Thwaitesii) alternate, 50-115 mm. long, 
12-30 mm. wide, narrowly ovate or oblong-lanceolate, 
acuminate apex, narrowed or acute at base, young leaves 
glabrous except on under side of midrib, thin, reddish when 
young, green when mature, venation reticulate, feebly 
pellucid in young leaf, but opaque in old leaves, lateral 
veins fine but more conspicuous in old leaves ; petiole green, 
glabrous, 2-4 mm. long. (See plate XI., fig. 15.) 
Flowers and ripe fruits September to December. 
Male inflorescence consists of a sessile cluster of 3-25 very 
small narrow flowers borne in axil of leaf or on old twigs ; 
the same plant may bear flowers in successive years. Each 
flower is in the axil of a very small bract covered externally 
