834 DIOECIA POLYANDRIA, Flacourtia, 
2. F. Ramontchi. Willd.iv. 829. L’ Herit. Starp, 59. t. 30. 
Shrubby, armed. Leaves oval, crenate. acemes ter- 
minal, 
A native of Madagascar, from the Isle of France it was 
brought to the Botanic garden, where it grows but very 
slowly, and has not yet flowered. Grafted on the other spe- 
cies, natives of. India, they take readily but very slowly. | 
3. F. cataphracta, Willd. iv. 830. 
_ Arboreous, thorns terribly decompound on the trunk ; 
branchlets unarmed. Leaves ovate, oblong, serrulate, fa- 
cemes axillary, few-flowered. 
Beng. Paniyala. 
This species 1 found in the Company’s Botanic garden, 
where it grows to bea pretty large tree; it was introduced 
about three years ago from the eastern frontier. 
Trunk short, armed with innumerable, large, very ramous 
thorns. Bark brown, pretty smooth. Branches numerous, 
generally unarmed, except the lower parts of the largest 
next the trunk, and straight shoots, of which there are often 
many on them, while young they are cross-armed and simple. 
Leaves alternate, short-petioled, oblong, serrate, smooth, shin- 
ing green on both sides, from two to three inches long, 
Stipules none. ~Racemes small, from five to ten-flow- 
ered, axillary, or from the germs of the old axills over the 
naked branchlets, Bractes, a small, cordate one below each 
pedicel. Mare, Calyx from four to five-parted, small. Co- 
rolnone. Filaments numerous, as long as the calyx, in- — 
serted into a nectarial-looking, glandular, convex recepta- 
cle. Anthers small, FEMALE FLOWERS on a distinct tree. 
Calyx from four to six-leaved, or split to the base ; kaflets 
spreading. Corol none. Nectary a glandular, lobate ring 
girding the base of the germ. _Germsuperior, round. Style 
short and thick, Stigma large, from four to six-parted, stel- 
late. Berry of the size of a common plum, globular, smooth, 
purple, succulent, from eight to twelve-seeded, ten is the 
