168 tkiAndria monogynia. Olax. 



OLAX. Schreb. Geii. N. 6\. 



Calyx entire, Carol three-petalled. Nectary of a few abortive fi- 

 laments inserted on the petals. Germ one-celled ; ovuliim one, erect. 

 Drupe halfhid in the enlarged calyx, one-seeded. Embryo inverse, 

 and amply furnished with a perisperm. 



1. O. scandens. Corom. PL Q. N. 102. 



Shrubby, scandent. Leaves ovate-oblong. Petals and nectarial 

 filament bifid. 



Fissilia psittacorum. Linn. Sp. PL ed. JVilld. 1. 194. 



Roxburgia baccata. Konig's 3Iss. 



Teling. Turka-vepa. 



A large, woody, climbing shrub, a native of forests. Flowers all 

 the year round. 



Trunk leaning, often as thick as a man's thigh. Branches numer- 

 ous, climbing. — Thorns one here and there over the old woody parts 

 only, very large and strong, shapedlike thehoin of a Rhinoceros. — 

 Leaves alternate, bifarious, petioled, oval, entire, smooth, about two 

 inches long, and one-broad. — Racemes axillary, solitary, half the length 

 of the leaves, few-flowered. — Flowers small, white. — Calyx cup-form, 

 entire, permanent, and enlarging with the fiuit. — Petals three; onej 

 two, or all three half two- cleft ; divisions linear, spreading. — Nectar i/, 

 a bifid, fiUforra, yellow body, rising from the inside of the base of 

 each division of the petals. — Filaments three, short, standing between 

 the nectaries, inserted into the petals below their fissures. Anthers 

 oblong. — Germ superior, ovate, one-celled, containing one ovulum 

 attached to the bottom of the cell. Style length of the corol. — Stig- 

 ma simple. — Drupe or berry globular, three-fourths covered with 

 the enlarged calyx, yellow, pulpy, one-celled. Birds are fond of 

 them. — Seed single, globular. Integuments, two; exterior nuciform; 

 inner one white and spongy. Perisperm conform to the seed, amyg. 

 daline. Embryo inverse, minute, lodged in the apex of the peris- 

 perm. Cotyledons two, equal, minute, semi-linear, liadicle larger 

 than the cotyledons, oval, superior. 



