422 M uteri ah for a Plant of the Mnfmjnn Venivaula. 



glabrous or sparsoly pubescent. Floivers white, -15 in. long. Capsule 

 glr.bose or pyriforra, much inflated, veinerl, '75 to 1-25 in. broad. 

 W. & A. Prodr. I, 109 J Wall. Cat. 8030 ; Griff. N"otiil. IV, 546 -, Ic. PI. 

 Asiat. IV, t. 699, f. 3; Dak. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 34; AVight Ic. t. 508; 

 Tbvvaites Ennm. 64 ; Koxb. Fl. Ind. II, 292; Bot. Mag. t. 1049; Grab. 

 Cat. Bomb. PI. 28 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient. I, 945 ; Bentb. Fl. Austral. I, 453 ; 

 Hieru in Hook, fil, Fl. Br. Ind. I, 670. C microcarpnin, H. B K. Nov. 

 Gen. & Sp. PI. V, 101 ; Baker I. c. 418, with syn.— Rbeede Hoit. Mai. 

 VIII, V, 28 ; Rumpb. Herb. Amboin. VI, t. 24, £ 2. 



In all tbe provinces, but usually only tiear &ettlements. DiSTRlB. 

 British India, CeyloWy and most tropical countries, 



A form of tliis with ratlier small and ob-deltoid capsules has been 

 kept up as a species by Fome authors under the name G. microcnrpmn, 

 H. B. K. ; but, as there are innumerable gradations from the globular 

 capsule besides much difference in size. 1 do not consider that it deserves 

 even varielal rank. The allied species G. caneseens, Wall, grows in the 

 south of India and iu Burmah along with this, but is always dis- 

 tinguishable by its more bluntly lobed leaflets canescent beneath. 



2. Ar.LOPHYLUS, Linn. 



Erect shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, exstipulate, 1- to 3^-folioIate. 

 Raccmef simple or branched, axillary. Flowers irregular, small, poly- 

 gamo dioecious, globose, sub-sessile. Sepals 4, in pairs, much imbricate, 

 concave, unequal. Petals 4, small, glabrous, with a villous emai-giuate 

 scale above the claw. Disc one-sided, with a gland opposite each 

 petal. Stamens 8, inserted inside the disc. Ovary 2-lobed, with 2 cells 

 and a solitary ovule in each. Style stout, stigma 2-3-lobed. Fruit 

 bi-coccous (usually one suppressed), ovoid, epicarp dry and coriaceous. 

 Seed with a small fleshy arillus, embryo curved, cotyledons plicate. 

 DiSTRiB : — about twenty-five species all tropical and mostly American. 



Ai,LO?HVi-us ConnE, Blume Kumphia III, 131. A small ti-ee 

 or slirub ; young branches glabrous to tomentose. Leaves 3-foliolate ; 

 leaflets ovate-lanceolate to elliptic-ovate, acute or acuminate, remotely 

 seriate or almost entire, rarely crenate, the base cuneate often 

 oblique and always entire : upper surface glabrous to sparsely pubes-- 

 cent, tlie lower glabeinlous to tomentose ; length 1 to 10 in., bj'eadth 

 •5 to 4 in. ; lateral petiolules "2 to "3 in., the central twice as long 

 or Ioniser. Lvflorescence 3 to 9 in. long ; the floivers snsall, yellow- 

 ish or whitish, on sliort ])edicels. Fruit globose, "25 in. in diam., 

 red. shining. Hiern in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 673 ; Kurz For. 

 Flora, Burma, 1, 299. Rhus Cohhe, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. I, 267. Orni- 

 trophe Cohhe, Willd. Sp PL, II, 322 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. II, 268. Usuhis 



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