2 24 RutaceCB. [Paraviis^nva. 



lo. Z.UWNGA, Hamili. 

 Climbing shrubs, with axillary spines ; 1. trifoliolate ; 

 fl. in axillary racemes ; cal. cup - shaped, very obscurely 

 4-5-toothed ; pet. 4-5, imbricate ; stam. 8-10, fil. dilated, 

 quite distinct, anth. oblong ; ov. 3- (or 2-) celled, with 2 super- 

 posed ovules in each cell ; fruit a large, 2-3-sceded berry. — 

 Sp. 4 ; 2 in /7. B. Ind. 



Zi. eleutherandra, Dah. in Kew Joitrn. Bot. ii. 258 (1850). 



Thw. Enum. 48 and 406 and (Z. scandens) 47. C. P. 1195. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 509. 



A climbing shrub, with very long flexuose branches set 

 with stout, sharp, woody, nearly straight, somewhat deflexed, 

 axillary spines about i in. long, bark yellowish-white ; 1. large, 

 6-9 in., 3-foliolate, petioles divaricate, 1^-2^ in., Iflts. on short 

 stalks, nearly equal, very variable, 3-8 in., oval or lanceolate 

 or linear-lanceolate or oblong-linear, shortly acuminate, entire, 

 glabrous, conspicuously gland-dotted ; fl. § in., pedicellate, in 

 glabrous, axillary racemes or panicles shorter than the petiole; 

 cal. glabrous ; pet. thick, glandular ; fil. quite distinct, dilated ; 

 disk or gynophore small, annular ; ov. glabrous, style long, 

 stout, stigma capitate ; berry globular, | in. 



Lower montane zone ; rather rare, Ambagamuwa ; Hewahette ; R; ni- 

 boda. Fl. March, April ; greenish-white. 



Also in Southern India and Java. 



The leaves are very variable ; when the leaflets are oblong-linear, the 

 plant looks very difterent from the type. Thwaites remarks that in some 

 plants all the ovaries are entirely without ovules. 



Scarcely distinct from L. scniidejis^ Ham. of Assam and Burma, well 

 figured in Bot. Mag. t. 4522. 



II. PARABIZaNYA, Wight. 

 Climbing shrubs, with axillary spines ; 1. unifoliolate ; 

 fl. rather large, in axillary fascicles ; cal. 4-5-toothed ; pet. 

 4-5, imbricate ; stam. 8-I0, distinct, equal ; fil. flat, anth. 

 oblong ; ov. on a conspicuous gynophore, 3-5-celled, with 

 I or 2 ovules in each cell, style long, ultimately deciduous 

 near the base ; fruit a 1-5 -seeded berry. — Sp. 6 ; all in 

 FL B. Ind. 



Very closely allied to Linninga. 



Cal. with 5 broad lobes, densely pubescent . . i. P. MOXOPHVLLA. 

 Cal. with 4 minute teeth, glabrous . . . .2. P. arm.vt.v. 



I. P. monophylla, U'ii^/il, III. i. 109 (1840). Wellang-iriya, S. 

 Thw. Enum. 47. C. P. 1201, 1202. 

 Fl. B. Ind. i. 510. Wight, 111. t. 42. 



