Pisonia. | CXIV. NYCTAGINEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) 711 
_l. P. aculeata, Linn.; a tall woody climber with axillary recurved 
prickles, cymes dense-fld., fruit narrowly oblong or clavate 5-ribbed, ribs 
muricate with several rows of glands. Chois. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 1, 440; 
Lamk. Il. t. 861; Gaertn, Fruct.i.t. 76; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 217; Wight Ic. 
t. 1763-4; Grah. Cat. Bomb. Pl.167; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 279; Bedd. Sylv. 
Madr. 175, t. 22, f. 3. P. Georgina, Wall. Cat. 6768. P. villosa, Poir. Dict. 
v. 347; Chois. l.c. Tragularia horrida, Koen. mss. 
SouTH Concay, and elsewhere in the Drccan PENINSULA, Heyne, &. CEYLON, 
Walker, &c. BURMA, Wallich.—DISTRIB. Tropical Asia, Africa, Australia and 
America. 
Trunk very short ; branches subopposite, horizontal, Leaves 2-3 in., elliptic, 
obtuse, entire, base cuneate; petiole 1-3 in. Flowers in dense axillary and terminal 
Corymbose cymes, greenish-white. Male flower } in. long, campanulate, pedicelled, 
5-toothed. Stamens 7-8. Female flower ovoid, obscurely toothed; stigma lacerate. 
Fruit long-pedicelled, 3-2 in. 
2. P. alba, Spanoghe in Linnea, 1841, 319 ; unarmed, arboreous, leaves 
large, fruit narrow club-shaped 5-angled, angles with one row of prickles. 
Kurz For. Fl. ii. 279; Wight Ic. t.1765; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 1,990; 
Chois. in DC. Prodr. xiii. 2, 446. ? P. inermis, Forst. Prodr. 397. _P. 
morindefolia, Br. in Wall. Cat. 7130; Chois. l.c. 447. ? P. malabarica, 
Poir. Encycl. Suppl. ? P. mitis, Linn. Sp. Pl. 1511; Burm. Fl. Ind. 924 
. (excl. citation of Rheede). 
ANDAMAN ISLANDS; beach forests rare, Kurz; cultivated in India and Ceylon. 
—DisTRIB. Malay Islands. 
A tree, 30-40 ft., glabrous except the inflorescence ; branches stout. Leaves 
6-10 in., oblong-ovate or oblong, acute or acuminate ; petiole 3-14 in. Flowers in 
dense corymbose terminal cymes. Male flower } in. long, tubular-campanulate, pedi- 
celled, 5-toothed ; stamens 8. Female flower much smaller ; stigma penicellate, Fruit 
-ł in. long, long-pedicelled.— It is very doubtful what name this should bear ; it may 
probably be identified with P. inermis, Forst., of the Pacific Islands. 
3. P. excelsa, Blume Bijd. 735; unarmed, arboreous, leaves large 
petioled opposite alternate or 3-nately whorled, fruit elongate linear trun- 
cate 5-angled, angles smooth viscid. Chois. in DC. Prodr. xii. 2, 441; 
Hassk. Pl. Jav. Rar. 997; Spanoghe in Linnea, 1841, 342 ; Miquel FT. 
Ind. Bat.i.1, 990. P. umbellifera, Seem. ex Kurz For. FI. ii. 280. P. 
macrocarpa, Presl Symb. t. 56. 
ANDAMAN IsrANDS; forests along the coast, Kurz.—DisTRIB. Malay Islands. 
A tree, 30-50 ft., glabrous except the puberulous shoots. Leaves 13-1 ft. glossy ; 
petiole 4-1 in. Flowers small, cymose or umbellate ; peduncles sparingly tomentose 
or glabrescent. Perianth nearly glabrous. Fruit 1} in. or less, glabrous.—Kurz has 
referred this to Seemann's P. umbellifera, which Bentham affirms (Fl. Austral. 
v. 281) to be Blume's P. excelsa. I have seen only leaf and fruit, the rest of the 
Above description being from Kurz. olia. DC 
EXCLUDED SPECIES.— P. racemosa, Wall. Cat. 7296, is Petunga longifolia, DC. 
(See v. iii, 120). 
OrperR CXV. ILLECEBRACEIE. 
i ; stipules 
Herbs, usually small and tufted. Leaves opposite or alternate; stip 
scarious. Flowers cymose, minute. Sepals 4-5, persistent, closing over 
the fruit. Petals minute or 0. Stamens hypogynous or perigynous ; fila 
ments short; anthers didymous. Ovary free, l-celled ; style umo ,8 tigmas 
decurrent; ovule 1, erect or pendulous from a basal funic e. riche 
enclosed in the periantk. Seed globose lenticular or reniform, testa smo th, 
albumen floury; embryo straight curved or annular.—Genera 17, species 
70, most warm dry regions. 
