xlii. ltHAMNE^aB (hemsley). 383 



5. COLUBRINA, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 379. 



Calyx-tube hemispherical ; limb 5-cleft ; lobes spreading, triangular. Pe- 

 tals 5, clawed, inserted below the disk, hood-shaped. Stamens 5, included 

 i the petals ; filaments filiform ; anthers ovate, 2-celled. Disk fleshy, filling 

 the calyx-tube. Ovary immersed in the disk and adhering to it, 3-celled, 

 tapering into a 3-lobed style with obtuse stigmas. Capsule nearly globular, 

 slightly 3-lobed, dehiscing septicidally into 3 membranous or crustaceous 

 cocci. Epicarp dry and thin or succulent, the persistent calyx-tube covering 

 about one-third of its length. Seeds obovoid, compressed, 3-gonous ; testa 

 smooth, shining, coriaceous ; albumen fleshy, thin. Cotyledons flat or in- 

 STii' — ^ canc ^ ent or erect shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, 3-nerved at 

 the base or penninerved. Stipules small, deciduous. Flowers small, in 

 axillary clusters. 



A genus of about 10 species, 9 of which are confined to America and the other one to 

 'he tropics of the Old World. 



, *■ ' O. asiatica, Brongn. in Ann. Sc. Nat. x. 369. An erect glabrous 

 rub or sraall tree with long, unarmed, slender branches. Leaves petiolate, 

 ovate or broadly cordate, abruptly acuminate or gradually narrowed acute or 

 Muse, rotundate or subcordate at the base, 2-3 in. long, crenate-serrate, 3- 

 ?2, at the base, penninerved upwards, glabrous and shining. Flowers 

 small green, in shortly pedunculate axillary cymes about the length of the 

 petiole. F ru it 3-4 lines in diam., slightly depressed at the top, furrowed 

 °Pposite the dissepiments, dehiscing into 3 or rarely 4 cocci. 



Moaamb. Distr. Rovuma river, Dr. Mellerl mouth of the Zambesi, Dr. Kirk ! 

 80 Soutn of the tropic at Delagoa Bay, Forbes I 

 traT m ° n tIlrou ghout tropical Asia, extending to the Philippine Islands and tropical Aus- 



6. GOTTAWTA, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 335. 



Flowers polygamous. Calyx-tube short, obconic, adhering to the ovary ; 

 umo 5-lobed. Petals 5, hood-shaped or flat, inserted below the margin of 



e disk. Stamens 5, included under the petals or exceeding them ; anthers 



,scing longitudinally. Disk glabrous or hairy, epigynous, filling the 

 3 yx-tube, 5-angled orlobed. Ovary immersed in the disk, 3-celled. Style 

 ^"Partite or -lobed ; stigmas small. Fruit coriaceous, quite inferior, crowned 

 2 P er sistent calyx-lobes, 3-winged, 3-coccous ; cocci woody, indehiscent, 

 jparating from the 6-partite axis ; wings large, rotundate. Seeds obovate, 

 P'ano-convex ; testa horny, shining ; albumen thin. Cotyledons rotundate, 



0ad > r adicle very short. — Tall, climbing, cinhose shrubs, glaucous or to- 



JfUose. Branches slender, elongate. Leaves alternate, petiolate, entire or 



et uate, 3-nerved from the base or penninerved. Stipules oblong or lanceo- 



«» .deciduous. Flowers small, in terminal or axillary racemes, rachis often 

 P ass »ng into tendrils. 



l - G. longipetala, Hemsl. A climbing shrub with terete glabrous 



