2 1 6 RlltacecC. \Acronycliia. 



A small, erect or scrambling or climbing shrub, stems and 

 branches more or less set with recurved, compressed, sharp 

 prickles, cylindrical, glabrous or slightly tomentose ; 1. alter- 

 nate, 3-foliolate, petiole divaricate, \-\ in., often with prickles 

 beneath, Iflts. sessile, articulated, \\-2 in., oval- or oblong- 

 lanceolate, acute at base, obtuse or bluntly acuminate, very 

 shal lowly crenate-serrate, glabrous or with scattered stellate 

 scales above, thick, gland-dotted, midrib often prickly beneath,, 

 lat. veins numerous ; fl. small, ;^ in., on very short ped., in 

 clusters at ends of branches of small axillary and terminal 

 panicles shorter or longer than 1.; cal. -lobes very small, 

 triangular ; pet. oblong, thickened at tip, longer in the fem. fl. ; 

 ov. raised on a short gynophore, oblong, glabrous, stigma 

 sessile ; fr. subglobose, apiculate, with 3-5 grooves, set with 

 large sunk glands, orange-coloured ; seeds sub-compressed, 

 rounded on back, smooth. 



Ikishy places from sea-level up to 6000 ft.; very common. Fl. Jan.- 

 April ; cream-coloured. 



Throughout India, and in Java, Sumatra, Chhia, the Philippines, and 

 Mauritius. 



When growing as a shrub the prickles are smaller and less numerous. 



The whole plant is bitter, and is employed as a tonic medicine ; the 

 seeds are hot and pungent. 



4. ACRONVCKIA, Forst. 



Tree ; 1. opposite or alternate, simple ; fl. polygamous, in 

 corymbose cymes ; sep. 4, connate ; pet. 4 ; stam. 8, anth. 

 versatile ; disk large, tumid ; ov. sunk in top of disk, 4-celled, 

 ovules 2 in each cell, stigma 4-lobed ; fr, indehiscent, 4-celled, 

 with a single seed in each cell ; embrj'o straight, in copious 

 endosperm. — Sp. 15 ; 3 in Fl. B. Ind. 



A. laurifolia, />'/. /y//V/. 245 (1825). Ankenda, ..V. 



Herm. Mus. 23. Fl. Zeyl. n. 139. Jainlwlifera pediinciilafa., L. Sp. 

 PI. 349 ; Moon Cat. 31. Cyininos)iia Ankenda, Gaertn. Fruct. i. 280. 

 C. pcdunciilala, DC, Thw. Enum. 69. A. pedunculaia, Walp., Thw. 

 Enum. 409. C. P. 1249. 



Fl. H. Ind. i. 498. Vahl, Symb. t. 61 {Jainbolifera pedunculatd). 

 Wight, 111. t. 65 {Cyniinosnia pedunculatd). 



A small tree, with pale, smooth bark, young twigs glabrous ; 

 1. ()[)i)osite or some alternate, 3-5 in., oval or oblong-oval, 

 acute at base, usually shortly acuminate, obtuse, entire, 

 glabrous and shining especially above, dark green, petioles 

 about i in. ; fl. about '^ in., on rather long ped., loosely 

 arranged in pyramidal, divaricate, corymbose cymes on long. 



