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516. (2) R. hirsuta (W. & A. :) young branches pubescent, spinescent ; 
older ones glabrous with a white cuticle : leaves ovate or alternate, ovate- or 
oblong-lanceolate, with a short sudden acumination, serrulated, membrana- 
ceous, nearly glabrous above, beneath hairy particularly on the nerves and 
ves : pedicels from the base of the young shoots, 3-6 together, pubescent, 
as long as the petiole: calyx 4-cleft : petals obovate, obtuse, entire, flat : ova- 
ry 2-3-celled: styles 2-3, connected to the middle, then diverging ; the up- 
per part jointed with and deciduous from the persistent lower half: fruit 2- 
celled : seeds plano-convex, with a deep furrow at the base on the outer con- 
vex side.— Wight! cat. n. 508. Courtallum ; not uncommon. 
The flowers of these two species are apparently bisexual, but both belong 
to the section Rhamnus of Brongniart. "The present has a very close affinity 
with R. catharticus, and still more with R. virgatus, Roxb. (Wall. ! L. n. 
4260), in which the leaves are pubescent when young, but almost glabrous 
when old, and the petals linear. 
V. SCUTIA. Comm.; Brongn. 
Calyx urceolate, 5-cleft ; segments erect. Petals nearly flat, deeply emar- 
ginate or 2-lobed. Stamens short: anthers ovate, 2-celled. Torus fleshy, - 
lining the tube of the calyx, closely surrounding the ovary, but not cohering 
with it. Ovary 2-3-*or occasionally 4-celled. Style short, simple. Stigmas 
2-3-4. Fruit 2-4- (but usually 3-) coccous, girt at the base by (but free 
from) the persistent entire tube of the calyx.—Glabrous shrubs. Leaves al- 
ternate, approximated by pairs, or nearly opposite, quite entire or only 
slightly serrulated, coriaceous, feather-nerved, 2-stipuled: stipules minute, 
deciduous. Spines (abortive branches) wanting, or curved, about equal in 
length to the petioles, arising from the axils of the lower leaves. Flowers 
axillary, disposed in few-flowered simple umbels scarcely longer than the pe- 
tioles. 
917. (1) S. Indica (Brongn.:) branchlets twiggy, slender, armed with 
somewhat opposite recurved prickles : leaves somewhat opposite, distant, not 
distichous, obovate, usually obtuse or retuse, sometimes acute, quite entire 
or slightly toothed towards the apex.—Brongn. in Ann. sc. nat. 10. p. 363; 
Wight ! cat. n. 506.—Rhamnus circumscissus, Linn. ; Roxb. fl. Ind. 1. p. 603 ; 
(ed. Wall.) 2. p. 850 ; in E. I. C. mus. tab. 1539:—R. myriinus, Burm. Ind. 
P. 60 (an unarmed branch); DC. prod. 2. p. 27.—Ceanothus circumscissa, 
Gertn, fr. 9. t. 106 ; DC. prod. 2. p. 30 ; Spr. syst. 1. p. 772 ; Wall.! L.n. 4266. 
—C. Zeylanica, Heyne ! in Roth, nov. sp. p. 153; DC. prod. 2. p. 30; Spr. 
syst. 1. p. 772; Wall.! L.n. 4267.—Celastrus Zeylanica, Roth, in Schult. ; 
DC. prod. 2. p. 9.—Catha Zeylanica, G. Don in Mill. Dict. 2. p. 10.— Rheed. 
Mal. 5. t. 30, 31. 4 E 
nus lucidus, Roxb., and Ceanothus circumscissa 6, D.C., are the same 
as S. Commersonii, Brongn., a species scarcely distinct from the present. 
Rheede’s figures are neither of them good ; he does not seem to have observed 
the thorns ; but we have seen specimens with leaves as acute as in his £. 31. 
VI. COLUBRINA.  Rich.; Brongn. 
Calyx spreading, 5-cleft: tube hemispherical. Petals 5, obovate, convolute. 
tamens with ovate 2-celled anthers. Disk fleshy, rather flat, slightly 5- 
angled, Ovary immersed in and adhering to the disk, 3-celled. Style trifid. 
Stigmas 3, Fruit capsular, dehiscent, tricoccous, girt at the base by the ad- 
nate permanent entire tube of the calyx. Seeds furnished with a short stalk ; 
testa coriaceous, very smooth.—Shrubs. Leaves alternate, feather-nerved ; 
