ToddaHa.'] RutaCCCC 



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solitary in each coccus, embryo in fleshy endosperm. — Sp. So ; 

 1 1 in Fl. B. Ind. 



Z. tetraspermuxn, IV. and A. Prod. 148 (1S34). 

 Thw. Enum. 69. C. P. 386. 

 Fl. B. Ind. i. 494. 



A wide-climbing shrub, with long rope-like stems, set 

 with large, woody, conical, spine-tipped prickles, \ in. high, 

 smaller branches glabrous, with small, deflexed, hooked 

 prickles ; 1. alternate, imparipinnate, 6-10 in., petiole and 

 rachis cylindrical, armed beneath with numerous large, hooked 

 prickles, Iflts. in 3 or 4 pairs and a terminal one, sessile, 

 20-32 i"-' oval or lanceolate, acute at base, suddenly attenuate, 

 retuse, coarsely serrate, thick, smooth and glossy, lat. veins 

 numerous ; fl. small, on very short ped., arranged in pyramidal, 

 finely tomentose, axillary and terminal panicles 2-4 in, long ; 

 sep. minute ; pet. oblong, acute ; ripe carp. 1-4, nearly globose, 

 \ in., rugose ; seed nearly globose, hanging out of the carp, 

 when ripe, polished, black. 



Montane zone, 3000-6000 ft. ; rather common, much rarer at lower 

 elevations. Fl. April, May ; yellowish-pink. 



Also in the Nilgiri Mts. and Kurg. 



The young shoots are precisely like those of a wild rose. 



A variety was collected near Eratne (below 1500 ft.) with smaller 

 leaves, not shining, and very shallowly and coarsely crenate. It was not 

 in fl., and the fruit had burst, but further examination may show it to be 

 distinct. 



Z. Rhetsa^ DC, is occasionally cultivated. It is C. P. 3490, and is 

 included in Thw. Enum. 69, where the native name ' Katu-kina' is given 

 for it. 



3. TODBA1.IA,* y;m. 



Climbing, prickly shrub ; 1. alternate, 3-foliolate ; fl. uni- 

 sexual, in panicles; sep. 5, connate; pet. 5, valvate ; stam. 

 (usually) 5 ; ov. syncarpous, 2-7-celled, with 2 ovules in each 

 cell, stigma capitate ; fr. fleshy, indehiscent, 2-7- (usually 5-) 

 celled, with a single seed in each cell ; embryo curved, in 

 fleshy endosperm. — -Sp. 8 ; 2 in FL B. Ind. 



T. aculeata, Pers. Syn. i. 249 (1805). Kudu-xniris, S. XLan- 

 dai, T. 



Herm. Mus. 22, 36. Burm. Thes. 58. Fl. Zeyl. n. 143. PmcUinia 

 nsiaiica, L. Sp. PI. 365. Scopolia aculcata, Sm., Moon Cat. 17. Thw. 

 Enum. 69. C. P. 2413. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 497. Burm. Thes. t. 24. Wight, 111. t. 66. Bentl. and 

 Trim. Med. PI. t. 49 (from a Ceylon specimen). 



* Kaka-toddali is given as the Malabar name of this by Rheede. 



