Flacouriia.'] BlXace^. 7 ■? 



dulla (Gardner) ; Ratnapura ; Wattegoda ; Pasdun Korale ; Morowak 

 Korale ; Singha Rajah Forest. Fl. Feb.-April ; white. 



Endemic. 



A native guide in Pasdun Korale gave me ' Dodan-wenna' as the name 

 of this, and Gaertner's name is ' Dodham-pana.' 



3. FI.ACOURTZA, Coinm. 



Trees or shrubs with spinous branches ; fl. unisexual, 



dioecious, in axillary clusters ; sep. 4-5, slightly imbricate ; 



pet. o ; stam. numerous ; ov. surrounded by an annular or 



lobulate disk, i -celled, with 3-6 parietal placentas, which 



often meet in centre and give the appearance of as many 



cells, ovules few, stigmas 3-6, recurved ; fruit a few-seeded, 



pulpy berry. — Sp. about 12; '6m.Fl. B. Ind. 



Small tree. Stigmas 5-6 i. F. Ramontchi. 



Shrub. Stigmas 3-4 2. F. sepiaria. 



1. P. Ramontchi,* ZWrn/, Stii-p. Nov. 59 (1784), var. sapida, 

 Roxb. Cor. PL i. 49 (1795) (sp.). Ug'uressa, S. Katukali, T. 



Thw. Enum. 17. C. P. 2583. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 193. Roxb. Cor. PI. t. 69. 



A small tree, with long, simple, spinous twigs on the 

 young branches, and often large, compound, branched spines 

 on the trunk, bark rather smooth, grey, young shoots pubes- 

 cent ; 1. 2-3 in., broadly ovate, acuminate, obtuse, acute at 

 base, more or less crenate-serrate, glabrous or pubescent on 

 the veins beneath, thin, petioles \ in., often pubescent ; fl. 

 small, in little, few-flowered, axillary, racemose clusters ; male 

 fl. : — sep. reflexed, ciliate ; fem. fl. : — sep. very small, ciliate, 

 disk annular, ov. globular, stigmas 5-6, nearly sessile, re- 

 curved ; berry globular, \ in. diam., pulpy, smooth, marked 

 with scars of fallen stigmas ; seeds 4-6, strongly lobulated. 



Low country, rare (?) Kandy ; Peradeniya ; Nilgala and Bibile. 

 Fl. Jan., Feb. ; yellowish-white. Fruit inky-purple. 



Also in Southern India. 



The small dark purple fruit is edible, and hence the tree is often 

 cultivated. About Colombo, &c. another variety with much larger and 

 better fruit is grown, and called 'Rata Uguressa,' which is probably 

 F. Cataphracta, Roxb. {F. Jangonias, Miq.) and introduced from Malaya. 

 C. P. 2583 seems partly made up of this. 



F. mennis, Roxb., is the Lovi-lovi, the red acid fruit of which is well 

 known, and the tree commonly grown in native gardens ; it is of Malayan 

 origin. 



2. r. sepiaria, Roxb. Cor. PI. i. 48 (i79j). DXulanninchil, T. 



Thw. Enum. 17, C. P. 1650. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 194. Roxb. Cor. PI. t. 68. 



* Ramontchi is the native name of the tree in Madagascar. 



