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ovoid entire sulcated, drupe roundish rather compressed emarginate 1 inch long. Seeds tuberculate. Canthium macrocarpum, Thw. 
En. PI. Zey. p. 152. 
Ceylon, Hantani, at 3000 feet elevation. 
PLATE CCXXXVIII. 
PlECTRONIA TrAYANCORICA. (Redd.) A middling sized tree unarmed, branches terete glabrous. Stipules with a 
long filiform subulate point (5 lines long) from a broad base ; leaves ovate with a bluntish acumination glabrous membranaceous, about 2 
inches long by 1 inch broad, much paler beneath, petioles 6-8 lines long, cymes glabrous slender many-flowered axillary or from tubercles 
at the axils solitary or several together shorter than the leaves, pedicels elongate and slender, flowers 4-merous very small rounded in the 
bud campanulate, calycine teeth subulate persistent, the tube and lobes of the corol each 1-1 \ lines long, tube with a ring of hairs in 
its jaws, lobes ovate scarcely acute, stamens exserted, style much exserted glabrous, stigma globose sulcate, fruit not seen. 
I have only met with this tree on the Travancore and Tinnevelly ghats. 
PLATE CCXXX1X. 
SCYPHOSTACIIYS COFFEOIDES. (Thw.) A shrub, leaves lanceolate much attenuated at both ends acuminate at the 
apex glabrous subcoriaceous, 24-5 inches long by §-lf inch broad, petioles 1-2 lines long, stipules entire at the margins glabrous inside 
subseariose, peduncle very short or wanting, flowers solitary at first almost quite enclosed in the large sheathing subscariose bracteole, 
fruit a red berry. Seed oblong striated about 2 lines long. Thw. En. PI. Zey. p. 157. 
Ceylon, Ratnapoora district, abundant up to no great elevation, called Wal copee. 
PLATE CCXL, 
