XIMENIA. . OLACINEÆ. — 89 . 
upper part (sterile anthers) bifid.— DC. prod. 1. p. 532 ; Spr. syst. 1. p. 175; 
Wall. L. n. 6776 ; Wight ! cat. n. 302. 
314. (2) O. scandens (Roxb. :) large climbing shrub: thorns here and there 
on the old woody parts : branches terete, young ones pubescent : leaves oval, 
usually more or less pubescent on the under side: racemes axillary, solitary, 
pubescent, simple: pedicels at first much shorter than the subtending bractea, 
at length scarcely twice as long: petals occasionally 6, usually 5: sterile. 
stamens with their upper part (the sterile anther) bifid.— Roxb. Cor. 2. t. 102; 
Jl. Ind. 1. p. 162; Roxb. and Wall. Jt. Ind. 1. p. 168; Wall.! L. n. 6774; 
Wight! cat. n. 303.—0O. Bador, Ham:! in Wall. L.n. 6778.—O. Psittacorum, 
Vahl, en. p. 34 (as to his second variety ).—O. obtusa, Blume ?—Roxburghia 
baccata, Koen. Coromandel. 
315. (3) O. Wightiana (Wall. :) branches terete, glabrous: leaves ovate or 
oblong, quite glabrous ; upper side shining, under pale: racemes axillary, 
often several together, lax, usually compound: pedicels always many times 
longer than the subtending bractea: petals usually 5: sterile anthers, bifid — 
Wall.! L. n. 6779 ; Wight ! cat. n. 304,— O0. Psittacorum, Vahl en. 2. p. 33 (as 
to the Ceylon plant and greater part of the descr.)—— Southern provinces. 
Readily distinguished from the two former by the lax racemes, and flowers 
double the size. In this one the pedicels seem to be inserted on the pedun- 
cles without order, and are never imbricated with bracteas longer than them- 
selves: in the other two the pedicels are distichously inserted, close, and 
covered each with a bractea, although the regular “ bifariously imbricated 
appearance (compared by Roxburgh, under O. imbricata, to the spikelets of a 
Briza) be not readily perceived owing to the lower pedicels in each raceme 
being in fruit, before the upper flowers expand. In all the three species the 
sterile anthers are cleft to the middle, the segments parallel and close to each  . 
other, and by no means as they are represented by Roxburgh (Cor. t. 102). 
Fissila Psittacorum, Lam. ill. t. 28, appears to differ from O. Wightiana, by 
the entire sterile anthers. — 
+316. (4) O. lucida (Heyne.)— Wall. L. n. 6777. 
+317. (5) O. Heyneana (Wall.)—Wall.! L. n. 6780. 
nei II. XIMENIA. Plum.; Linni; Lam. ill. t. 257. 
Calyx small, 4- (or:5-?) cleft, persistent but not enlarging. Petals as 
many as the segments of the calyx, very hairy on the inside, connivent at the 
» revolute above. Stamens twice as many as the petals, hypogynous, all 
fertile: filaments distinct or occasionally united by pairs: anthers distinct, 
adnate, linear, elongated. Ovary 4-celled, with 1 ovule in each cell. Style 
elongated. - Fruit drupaceous, 1-seeded.— Trees or shrubs. Leaves ovate or 
ceolate, quite entire. 
318. (1) X. americana (Linn.:) shrubby: thorns axillary or terminating 
the branchlets, solitary, bearing occasionally leaves or flowers or sometimes 
smaller thorns: leaves oval, emarginate : peduncles 4-6-flowered: drupe oval; 
flesh thick ; nut crustaceous.—DC. prod. 1. p. 253 ; Spr. syst. 2. p. 216 ; Lam. 
ll. t. 257. f.1. and 2; Roab. fl. Ind. 2. p. 252; in E. I. C. mus. tab. 209.— 
- Russeliana, Wall. I.. n. 6784. | 
t319. (2) X.? olacioides (W. & A.:) shrubby, unarmed?: leaves ovate, 
acuminated : fruits racemose, nearly globose : drupes dry, crustaceous, with- 
out any flesh, marked at the base with the remains of the 5 teeth or segments 
of the calyx: albumen amygdaloid : embryo cylindrical, slender, in the axis 
of the albumen and of nearly the same length: cotyledons semi-terete, long, 
Conferruminate: radicle short, obtuse, superior.— Wight ! cat. n. 962 
` As we have not seen the flower, we dare not make of this a distinct genus, 
