74 BlXacecB. \Trichadenia. 



A much-branched shrub or small tree, with the branchlets 

 ending in sharp, pointed, rigid spines ; 1. 1-2 in., in fascicles, 

 cuneate-obovate or oblong, tapering to petiole, very obtuse, 

 more or less crenate-serrate, glabrous, stiff; fl. very small, in 

 axillary, racemose clusters shorter than the leaves ; sep. acute, 

 pilose ; disk lobular ; stigmas 3-4, very short, recurved ; berry 

 globular, ^ in., smooth. 



Dry country, common. Jaffna ; Haragama. Fl. Feb. ; greenish. 

 Berry purplish. 



Throughout India, also in Java. 



4. ABERZA, Hockst 



Trees, without spinous branches ; fl. dioecious, axillary ; 

 sep. 5-8, valvate ; pet. o ; disk (in fem. fl.) annular ; stam. 

 very numerous ; ov. i -celled, with 3-7 parietal placentas ; 

 styles 3-7, spreading ; fruit a juicy berry. — Sp. 5 ; i in 

 Fl. B. hid. 



The rest African. 



A. Gardner!, Clos, in Ann. Sc. Nat. 4, viii. 236 (1857). K^tam- 

 billa, S. [Plate VII.] 



Rouinea hebecarpa, Gardn. 1. c. 9. Thw. Enum. 18, 400. C. P. 1075. 

 Fl. B. Ind. i. 195. Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 194. 



A small, much-branched tree, 16-20 ft., bark pale grey, 

 young shoots hairy ; 1. 2|-4 in., lanceolate or oval, somewhat 

 attenuate, acute at both ends, entire or very faintly serrate, 

 slightly pilose above, paler and densely pubescent or tomen- 

 tose beneath, lateral veins very oblique, prominent, pink, 

 petioles | in., tomentose ; fl. \ in., on short ped., male in small 

 umbels of 10 or more, female i or 2 together in the leaf-axils ; 

 sep. lanceolate, acute, tomentose ; ov. densely tomentose, 

 styles radiately spreading, stigmas fimbriate ; fruit i in. diam., 

 globular or somewhat depressed, velvety-pubescent. 



Upper zone of moist low country and lower montane zone to 4000 ft., 

 rather rare. About Kandy ; Hangurankette ; Maturata ; Wilson's 

 Bungalow. Fl. June ; greenish. Fruit pale purple. 



Endemic. 



The fruit is edible and pleasantly acid, but the finely hairy skin is an 

 objection. 



5. TRZCKADSNIA, Thwaites. 



Tree ; fl. dioecious, in panicles ; cal. undivided, opening 

 irregularly; pet. 5, imbricate, each with a lanceolate scale 

 adnate to its inner face; stam. 5 ; ov. i -celled, with 3 parietal 

 placentas, each with i ovule ; styles 3 ; fruit a spherical berry; 



