620 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. CeldStritS. 



valved; seeds few covered with a coloured aril. Embryo 

 erect, and furnished with a perisperm. 



1. C. emarginata. Willcl. sp. i. 1128. 



Shrubby, armed. Leaves obovate, entire, smooth. Flow- 

 ers numerous, axillary. Capsules inflated ; cells two-seeded, 



Telinga. Chennee Chmtoo. 



Is one of the most common, rather poor looking- shrubs in 

 these parts of India, it grows every where and in every soil. 

 Flowers during the cold season. 



Stem nothing' deserving- the name, but branches innumer- 

 able, bent in every direction, and armed with exceedingly 

 strong, large, straight, very sharp thorns. Leaves alternate 

 on the young shoots, on the old wood or thorns fascicled, 

 very short petioled, obovate, emarginate, smooth, shining-; 

 about an inch long. Stipules small, withering. Umbellets 

 very short-peduncled, many-flowered, one or two from the 

 centre of the fascicles of leaves. Pedicels many times long- 

 er than the peduncle, one flowered. Flowers small, whitish, 

 yellow. Petals twice the length of the calyx. Nectary, a 

 saucer- formed, crenulate body surrounding the base of the 

 germ. Germ conical, three-celled, two ovula in each, attach- 

 ed to the bottom of their cell. Style single, half three-part- 

 ed. Stigmas emarginate. Capsule inflated, turbinate, three- 

 sided, three-celled, valved. Seeds two in each cell, small, 

 shining', red, resting' on a white fleshy receptacle. 



It makes good fences, and fuel. 



2. C. montana. R. 



Arboreous, thorny. Leaves obovate, serrulate, smooth. 

 Panicles axillary, small, dichotomous. Capsules with cells 

 two-seeded. 



Telinga. Pedda-chmtoo. 



A small tree, a native of mountains. Flowering time the 

 cold season. 



Trunk erect, though generally a little crooked. Branches 



