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VAR montana, Thwaites, Ic; panicles smaller and more succulent, flowers larffer.- 

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^^^^1 tj^es or shrubs. Leaves opposite* or subopposite/crenate or' 

 entire. /Yo2/;6?*s in axillary dichotomous cymes, often polygamous. 

 ^alyx 5 cleft. Petals 5, spreading, 'i)^^^ thick. Stamem 5: anthers 

 nearly globose. Ovary continuous with the disk, conical, rarely 2-4- or* 

 1 9 n ^ style very short; ovules 2 in each cell. Fj-uU succulent or dry, 

 Y^-celled, indehiscent; cells 1- rarely 2-seeded. Seed without an aril, 

 H^^fiinous.— DisTKiB. About 30 species, natives of South Africa, Tro- 

 pical Asia, America and Australia. 





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^^•' *!• ^^iaucum, Pers. Synops. i. 241; jRoa;6. i^^. 7?icf. i. 638; Wall X 

 J54325; DaProdr,n. 10; Tkwaites Fnum. 7 3 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. Anal. 



^««. Ixvii. E. Eoxburghii, fT. c& ^. Prodr. 157 ; G'ra/i. (7at Bomb. PL 38 : 

 ^«fe & Gibs. Bomb, FL 48; Wight III 178, t 71; Bedd. Fl Sylv. 

 Tj ?^^' ^'^» ^^' ^y^^' 148; Brand. For. Fl 82. E. paniculatum, 

 m n^^^^^' 157. E. oxyodon,Ti^rc2. /n Bidl Soc. Nat Mosc. 1863, pt. L 

 ^•5. Celastrus glaucus, Vald Symb. ii. 42. Mangifera glauca, Rotlb. in 

 ^^ 4c^. Ham. ii. 534, t. 4, f . i. Euonymus grossa, Wall in Roxh. Fl Ind. 

 ^. Oarej/, ii. 408 ; Cat. 4291. E. Tina, Ham. in Wall Cat. 4292. Neerija 

 •^cuotoma, Poxb: Fl. Ind. i 646. Rhamnus Neerija, Spreng. Syst. Veg.^ 

 ^W^86. Schrebera albens, WW. a5)>. P;. i 1092. \ . 



^roughout the hotter parts of India and Cetlon.^Distrib, Malay ArcbiDelago, 

 ^^^^- 2-6 by f-2J in., elliptic or ovate, acute or acuminate, crenate or nearly entire, 

 ol)o -f^^^.^ ^^ subcOriaceous. Flowers in diffuse dichotomous cjmes. i^rwi^ woody, 

 vJix ^.^^'' *^PP6<1 at the apex with the persistent etyle, 1-celled, 1-seeded.— So far 



^ age 18 concerned this is a most variable species. ■ ■.._ j>:/ .rri >. .v r ^^ 



^■ceH a 1 ^^"^''^"^i^j Thwaites Enum. 73; fruit i in, globose very hard and woody) 



y ^^ 1 -seeded brown. — Ceylon, in hot drier parts of the Island.. ^„4*;"?>< - ••* : r 

 lJn\^' leaves 2^ by 1 in. oblong-elliptic subacumiuate, fruit ^ In. round succulent, 



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11. KIPFOCRATEA, Linn. 



^mall trees or scandent shrubs. Leaves opposite, petioled; stipules 

 ^h caducous.* Flowers small, white or greenish, disposed in axillanr 

 iw^' ^^^^ rarely in terminal cymose panicles. Calyx small, 5-parted. 

 ^^ ^' spreading?, much larfrer than the calyx, imbricate or valvate. 



Disk conical or 



Cjf ^^ '^-flattened carpels connate at the base, usually dehiscent. Seeds 

 fin r^^sed, usually winded below, exalbuniinous.— Distrib. Species about 



■'Stives of the tropics'of both hernispheres. - ; ; 

 ■^^^^ M in.—Shruhs with climUng branches. 







peii^'.obtusifollai Roxb. Fl. Ind. i:n 66; .Calyx-lobes tnansular, 

 /crJ in- subulate ^uberul5ui. ^W. & A. Prodr. 104; Wtghi III i 134 : 

 ^ »<i6; /)ci Frodr. i. 569 ; Thwaites Enum. 52. ^M. barbata, -T. MwM. 





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