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of this and of Z. glabra, Roxh., nre obtained, it may be found impossible 

 to keep this up as more than a variety of the older species. Ridley's 

 Singapore specimens (No. 6379) liave longer-stalked cymes than those 

 from the Nicobar Islaiids or from Java. In the hitter the cymes do not 

 much exceed the peiiole in length, while in the former they are, even 

 when in flower, half as long as the leaf. 



2. COLUBKINA, Rich. 



Erect shrubs. Leaves alternate. Flowers in very short axillary 

 cymes. Calyx 5-fid ; tube hemispherical. Petals 5, clawed, springing 

 from the margin of the diso, hooded. Stamens 5. Disc, fleshy, filling the 

 calyx-tube. Ovary sunk in the disc and confluent with it, 3-celled ; 

 style 3-cleft ; stigmas reflexed. Fruit the size of a pea, subglobose, 

 surrounded below the middle by the remains of the calyx-tube, 3-celled, 

 cells 1-seeded, tardily dehiscent. — Distkib. Species 18, chiefly tropical 

 American. 



Leaves broadly ovate, crenate-serrate ... 1. C. asiatica. 



,, oblong-oblanceolate, entire ... 2. G. anomala. 



1. CoLUBRiNA ASIATICA, Brongn. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. I. x, 369. 

 A glabrous unarmed shrub. Leaves broadly ovate, acute, crenate-serrate, 

 (sometimes obsour-ely), rounded at the base ; main nerves about 3 pairs, 

 curved, ascending ; length 1"5 to 3 in., breadth 1 to 2"25 in. ; petiole "4 

 to 6 in., slender. Oz/mes shorter, than the petioles, flowers yellowish. 

 W. & A. Prodr. 166 ; Wight 111. i. t. 74 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 50 ; 

 Thwaites Enum. 75 ; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 642 ; Kurz For. Flora 

 Burma, I, 268 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. Anal. Gen. Ixix. G. javanica, Miq. Fl. 

 Itid. Bat. vol. I, pt. 1, 649. Geanothus asiaticus, Lamk. 111. t. 129, f. 2 ; 

 DC. Prodr. ii. 30 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 615 ; Wall. Cat. 4262. G. capsularis, 

 Forst. Prodr. 18 ; DC. Prodr. ii. 32. Pomaderris capsularis, G. Don 

 Gen. Syst. ii. 39 ; Burm. Zeylan. t. 48. Bhamnus acuminata, Colebr. 

 in Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 6J5. 



Pahang, Perak, Nicobar and Andaman Islands. — Distrib. ; Malay 

 Archipelago, British India. 



2. CoLUBRiNA ANOMALA, King D. sp. A tree 30 to 40 feet high 

 with spreading pendent branches ; young shoots softly rusty-pnberu- 

 lous. Leaves oblong-oblanceolate, caudate-acuminate, entii'e, much nar- 

 rowed to the base : upper surface glabrous, shining ; the lower puberu- 

 lous, liver-coloured when dry ; main nerves 4 pairs, slightly curved, 

 ascending, t!ie lowest pair springing from the very base ; length 4 to 

 6'5 in., breadth 1"1 to 225 in., petiole "4 to "5 in. Cymes axillary 

 or crowded on the branches between the leaves, branching, many- 

 flowei-ed, rusty-tomentose, minutely bracteolate. Flowers -15 in. in 



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