. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. 58 XVI. TERNSTECEMIACEiE [Cleyera tlie enumeration of Oliinese plants, Journ. Linn. Soc. xxiii. 76, lias white petals, other- wise there is no diffeience C. grandiflora, Hook. fil. & Thorns. Khasi hills, with larger leaves and usually solitary flowerb is perhaps not specifically distinct 4. EURYA, Thiinb.; M. Brit. Ind. i. 284. Slarubs or small trees. Leaves mostly serrate. M. dioeciouSj sepals and petals imbricate, petals united at base, s
. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. 58 XVI. TERNSTECEMIACEiE [Cleyera tlie enumeration of Oliinese plants, Journ. Linn. Soc. xxiii. 76, lias white petals, other- wise there is no diffeience C. grandiflora, Hook. fil. & Thorns. Khasi hills, with larger leaves and usually solitary flowerb is perhaps not specifically distinct 4. EURYA, Thiinb.; M. Brit. Ind. i. 284. Slarubs or small trees. Leaves mostly serrate. M. dioeciouSj sepals and petals imbricate, petals united at base, stamens 12-15, attached to the base of the corolla, anthers adnate. Ovary mostly 3-celled, styles 3, distinct or partially united. Pruit indehiscent, seeds numerous, small, angular, albumen copious, oily. 1. E. japonica, Thunb.; Kurz, E. M. i. 101.; Bedd. M. Sylv. t. 92.—Syn, E, Wightiana^ Wight 111. t. 38. Vern. Jhingni, Nep.: Hiditnl^ Nilgiris; Taung lapet^ Taic lapet {wild teci)^ Burm. A shrub or a small tree ; prominent raised lines on branchlets descending on both sides from the insertion of leaves. Leaves 2-5 in., lanceolate or ovate- lanceolate, obtusely serrate, glabrous, rarely pubescent while young. EL small, white, on short nodding pedicels, 2 or 3 together, rarely solitary, in the axils of leaves, sepals quite glabrous, style deeply 3- rarely 4-5-cleft, berries numerous, the size of a peppercorn, mucronate. Outer Himalaya, from Sikkim eastwards, 3,000-6,000 ft., AVeb-tern Clliatb and hills adjoining them, from Kanara southwards. Hills of Upper and Lowei Burma. 1^1. throughout the year, chiefly R. S. Also Ceylon, from 4,000 tt. upwards, Malay Archipelago, China, Japan, Korea, Fiji Islands. 2. E. acuminata, DC; Royle 111. t. 25. Vei^n. Samcjhingm\ Nep. Supposed to differ from E. Japonica by young shoots being hairy, by more narrowly lanceolate leaves, often hairy beneath, and by the flowers in dense fascicles of 5 or more. In the F. PL of North-West and Central India
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