2 26 RutaceCB. {Atalantia. 



stam. 8 (or lo), distinct or united into a tube, equal or the 

 alternate ones shorter, anth. various ; disk small, annular ; 

 ov. without or with a very short gynophore, 2- or 4- or 5 -celled, 

 with I or 2 collateral ovules in each cell, style short or long, 

 stigma capitate ; fruit a berry with thick rind, 2-5-celled, 

 2-5-seeded. — Sp. 10; 6 in Fl. B. Ind. 



Stam. combined into a tul^e. 



Fls. in umbels or corymbs i. A. monophylla. 



Fls. in racemes 2. A. RACEMOSA. 



Stam. distinct. 



L. veiny ; fil. flat 3. A. zeylanica. 



L. veinless ; fil. slender 4. A. MissiONls. 



1. A. monophylla, Correa, A?in. Mas. Par. vi. 383 (1804). 

 Perunkuruntu, T. 



Thvv. Enum. 44. C. P. 497. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 511. Wight, Ic. t. 161 1 {A.floribiinda). 



A small tree or shrub, with numerous rigid branches, the 

 older ones armed with short spines, young parts glabrous ; 

 1. 1^-3 in., rhomboid-lanceolate, acute at base, obtuse, deeply 

 notched at apex, glabrous, thick, veiny, petiole short, slightly 

 pubescent, with i or 2 linear or setaceous stipular scales at 

 base ; fl. \ in., rather crowded in axillary umbels or corymbs, 

 ped. \ in., glabrous, bracts small, ciliate ; cal. glabrous, irregu- 

 larly split to the base ; pet. obovate-oblong, obtuse, recurved ; 

 stam. 8, fil. completely connate into a long tube and some- 

 times adnate to pet. at base, anth. broadly ovoid ; ov. oblong, 

 glabrous, 4-celled, style short, no gynophore ; beriy globular- 

 ovoid, I in., with a long apiculus, 4-celled, 4-seeded. 



Dry region ; common. Fl. July, August, December ; white. 

 Also throughout Peninsular India. 



Wight's figure shows a very large-flowered form. Wood very hard, 

 heavy, close-grained, yellow. 



2. A. racemosa, W. and A. Prod. 91 (1834). 

 Oliv. 1. c. 24. Thw. Enum. 405. C. P. 3673. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 512. Wight, Ic. t. 71 {Sclcrostylis atalantioides). 



An (? always) unarmed bush ; 1. precisely as in A. mono- 

 phylla ; fl. also as in the last, but ped. shorter and arranged 

 in short but distinct racemes ; cal. glabrous, equally 4-fid, 

 lobes acute ; fil. united into a tube ; berry as in the last. 



Lower montane zone ; apparently very rare. Galagama (Gardner) ; 

 Nonpareil Valley, 1882 (.^ same locality). Fl. Feb.; white. 

 Also in S. India. 

 This is hardly separable from A. monophylla as a species. 



