168 - ` TRIANDRIA  MONOGYNIA. E: Olaxe 
OLAX. Schreb. Ein N. 61. 
Calyz € entire, Tee three-petalled. Nectary ofa few alon fi- 
laments inserted on the petals. Germ one-celled ; oculum one, erect, 
Drupe half hidin the enlarged calyx, one-seeded. bry ‘inverse, 
and amply furnished with a perisperm. 
^1. O. scandens. Corom. Pl. 9. N. 102. 
Shrubby, scandent. Leaves ovate-bblong. Petals and m à 
filament bifid. 
 Fissilia psittacorum. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd. 1. 194. ` | 
Roxburgia baccata. Konig’s Mss. - 
Teling. 'Turka-vepa. ais 
A large, roads, climbing shrub, a native of forests. Flowers all - 
the year round. 
Trunk leaning, often as thick as a man's thigh, Branches numer- 
ous, climbing. =T. horns one here and there over the old woody. parts 
| only, very large. and strong, shaped ] like the horn ofa Rhinoceros.— - 
Leaves alternate, bifarious, petioled, oval, entire, smooth, about two | 
inches long, and one-broad.— Racemes axillary, solitary, half the length 
of the leaves, few-flowered .— Flowers small, white.—Calyz cup-form, 
‘entire, permanent, and enlarging with the fruit.— Petals three ; one? 
two, or all three half two- cleft ; divisions linear, spreading —Nectary, 
a bifid, filiform, yellow bails. rising from the inside of the base of 
each division of the petals.— Filaments three, short, standing between 
— the nectaries, inserted into the petals below their fissures. Anthers 
oblong.—Germ superior, ovate, one-celled, containing one ovulum 
attached to the sare of the cell. Style length. of the corol. —Slig- 
sa simple.— Drupe or berry globular, three-fourths covered with - 
the enlarged calyx, yellow, pulpy, one-celled. Birds are fond of 
them.— Seed single, globular. Integuments, two ; exterior nuciform; 
inner one white and spongy. |, Perisperm conform to the seed; amyg* 
daline. Embryo inverse, minute, lodged in the apex of the peris- 
perm.  Cotyledons two, equal, minute, semi-linear. Radicle large 
than the cotyledons, oval, superior. — 
