194 XIV. BIXINE2E. (Hook. f. & Tlioms.) 



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aiffcrent species. ^YalUch's specimens and four in Wight's Hevb. are all we have seen, 

 and these are male. 



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8. r. seplaria, Eoxh Cor. PL I 48, t. 68 ; FL Ind. iii. 835 ; shrubby, 



very thorny, thorns usually bearing flowers and fruit, leaves small obcor- 

 date obovate or oblong or cuneute-obovateor orbicular crenate-serrate, when 

 old rigid coriaceous and shining, flowers dioecious solitary or ^^^^'^'^^ll^, 

 glabrous racemes, stigmas t-^. W. <& A. Prodr. 29; iVall. CaLJbiby 

 Dak. d: Gibs. Bomb. FL 11. F. obcordata, Poxb. FL Ind. iii. 835. }l cor- 

 difolia and rotundifolia, Poxb. Hart. Beng. 73. Sideroxylon spmosum, 

 Willd. Sp. PL i. 1091 ; Rheede Hort MaL v. t. 39. . " -. 



Dry jungles throughout Bengal, the Western Peninsula, and Ceylon.— Pistbib. 



.Java. • +1 1 BP- 



A very rigid thorny bush. Leaves 4-3 in., usually more or less cuneate at *H^/**^J^/ 

 when larger and more membranous or more elliptic it is difficult to distinguis 

 from F. PamontcJii vars. 1 and 2. Flower generally solitary or twin in a ^^%^^^ 

 feet raceme, very small. 3Iate sepals ovate, obtuse; female orbicular. ^ ^^^ 

 usually separate, on very short styles. Drupe size of a large pea. ^^ 



Flacourtia Wightiana, Wall Cat. 6672 is a Scepa. F. nivea, Moon. Cat 70 n 

 Fluegg- a leycopyruSj \Vt. 





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6. XTTIiOSBIA, Forster. 



Characters of Flacourtia, but ovary with 2, rarely 3-6 f ew-ovuled V^H^ 

 placentas, a usually entire very short style, capitate stigma (in the ^^.^^ 

 species) and globose 2-8-seeded berry. — Disteib. Species about 25, n^. 

 of all tropical regions. ~ ^' 



1. X. lonffifolium, Clos in Ann. Sc. NaL Ser. 4, viil 231; leaj^ 

 linear- or elliptic- or oblong-lanceolate acuminate obtusely serrate, n ^^^ 

 spreading, $ flowers in short racemes, rarely in long P^"^^^^' A^^/^ 

 ovate acuminate. Flacourtia ferox, WalL mss. in Voigt Ilort p^ . 



Calc. 84. , 



Western Himalaya on the outer ranges, ascending on 5000 ft., from K^?^.^^\^ 

 and Wint., to Marri, 8tev:arL Assam, at Nowgong and Gow^ahatty, Jenht^, riaceot»» 



A glabrous bush ; branches rather long, slender. Leaves 4-9 by 1^-21 in., co _^^^ 

 shining above, base acute, rarly obtuse; nerves 8-12 on each side the ^^^^^.i' ^^n^ 



i-J in. Eacemcs usually very short, ^ in., and crowded in the leaf axils, sessi » ^ _,'^ 

 owered, glabrous or pnberulous, rarely elongate and branched. Flowers ®'. , j jg. 

 fascicled, \ in. diam. Berry glabrous, \ in. diam. — The specimens with p»" , 



florescence occur amonsrst those from Assam. 



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2. X. controversum, Clos I.e.; leaves elliptic or elliptic 

 (rarelv lanceolate) acuminate obtusely serrate, nerves very oblique, ^^^^^ 

 ]>anicled pnberulous, bracts linear-oblong. Flacourtia C.ataphracta, 

 Cat. 6674 C, 



NiPAL, Wallkh. Kharia hills, Griffith; Chnrra, alt. 3-4000 ft., -&/• 4 j^ jpale 

 Very m-ar X. lovgifolium^ especially the form of that species with P^^^-^^ jneOh 



flowers ; best' distinguished by the usually shorter (3-6 in^ leaves, often ^ ^^j. 



branons, wnth invariably very oblique nerves and fewer of them on ^^^ .^^fgreij 



The sepals are equal or unequal, and the character of the bracts is perhaps 



good one. The fruit is alike in both. 



3. X. latifolium, //. /. & T. ; leaves broadly elliptic-obloog o ^^j^ 

 or acute obtusely serrate or subentire, nerves few very oblitiue, 



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