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§ 2. Gymnosporia. Bisexual? Stamens inserted under the margin of the disk. 
Ovary 3-celled, half immersed in the disk. Ovules 2 in each cell, naked at 
the base. Style more or less 3-cleft. Stigmas spreading, emarginate. Cap- 
sule 3-angled, 3-celled. Seeds apparently without an arillus, or with a very 
short imperfect membranaceous one at the hilum.— Rigid scraggy shrubs, ge- 
nerally with thorns. Leaves coriaceous. 
497. (2) C. Heyneana (Roth. :) unarmed: leaves elliptical, coriaceous, 
glabrous, slightly crenate-serrated, petioled : cymes axillary dichotomously 
compound, not half the length of the leaves: capsules (large) turbinate, 3- 
celled: seeds about 2 in each cell, obovoid, shining.— Roth. in Rem. & 
Schult. syst. 5. p. 421 (partly) ; DC. prod. 2. p. 7; Wight! cat. n. 476.—C. 
serrulata, Roth. nov. sp. p. 155 (partly) ; Spr. syst. 1. p. 775.—C. Wallichiana, 
Wall. ! L. n. 4304. c (partly). 
Roth's specific character is derived principally from the present species ; 
but in his description the “ folia obovata in petiolum attenuata,” beiongs we 
think to the next: while the small capsules seem to have been obtained from 
C. emarginata or C. montana. All the four, however, although much confused, 
even by Dr Wallich, are we believe quite distinct, ; 
498. (3) C. Rothiana (W. & A. not Schult. :) unarmed: bark on the older 
branches thick, rugged : young branches short with a few alternate leaves, or 
almost none (like taberetes from the old branches) with faseicled leaves : 
ves coriaceous, glabrous, broadly obovate, crenate-serrated, cuneate at the 
base and tapering much and suddenly into the petiole: cymes much shorter 
than the leaves, dichotomous, axillary or terminal on the young shoots, or 
fascicled from the tubercles of the older branches.— Wiglit? cat. n. 475.—C. 
Serrulata, Roth. nov. sp. p. 156 (partly).—C. Wallichiana, Wall. L. n. 4304. 
€ (partly). 
499. (4) C. Wallichiana (Spr.:) branches flexuose, thorny ; young shoots 
and thorns with a polished spotted bark: thorns bearing both leaves and 
flowers: leaves coriaceous, glabrous, obovate, slightly crenulate-serrated, cu- 
neate and attenuated at the base into the short petiole : cymes from among the 
leaves, dichotomous, few-flowered, much shorter than the leaves: capsules 
large) roundish, 3-angled.—Spr. syst. 5. (index) p. 150 (under C. rigida) ; 
Wall.! L. n. 4904. a, c (partly), d; Wight! cat. n. 474.—C. rigida, Wall. in 
Roxb. fl. Ind. (ed. Wail.) 2. p. 396.—C. buxifolia, Herb. Madr. ; Rob. hort. 
p. 18.—Catha Wallichii, G. Don in Mill. dict. 2. p. 9. 
500. (5) C. ovata (Wall.:) leaves short ;petioled, roundish-ovate, slightly 
cordate at the base, minutely crenulate-toothed, very hard and thick, gla- 
brous (brown when dried): peduncles axillary, short, bearing numerous short 
Pedicellate small flowers : capsule (large) turbinate, 3-angled—Wall.! L. 
n. 4308 dodi 
_ Of this we have only seen one small specimen, and that in the Linnæan So- 
ety’s Indian herbarium. Most of the flowers have fallen off without pro- 
ducing fruit, so that a suspicion might be raised as to their being polygamous 
9r monæcious. It is readily distinguished from C. montana by the leaves be- 
Coming brown instead of bluish-white, by the form of inflorescence, and by 
the much larger capsules. The capsules of this, of C. Heyneana and C. Wal- 
ne are the size of small hazel nuts: those of C. Rothiana are yet un- 
own. ; K 
501. (6) C. montana (Roxb. :) thorny ; youn branches occasionally un- 
eap dyer (purplish) : leaves elliptical ra obovate, S = the base 
n; petiole, minutely and rather sharply crenate-serrated, coriaceous, 
glabrous, anon d eben dried) : eymes axillary, lax, peduncled, 
about twice as long as the petiole : style deeply divided : capsules somewhat 
