2 54 OlacinecB. 



CKAXIiZiETZA, DC. 



For characters, see Order. — Sp. 30; 6 in Fl. B. Lid. 



C. sumatrana, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bot. Sitppl. 328 (i860). Balu- 

 nakuta, S. 



Moaaerra gelotiioides^ Roxb., Thw. Enum. 79. C. P. 1245, 1231. 

 Fl. B. Ind. i. 570 (C gelonioides). Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. anal. vi. f. i. 

 (fls. only). 



A bush or small tree, young parts pubescent, twigs slender; 

 1. 2-5 in., variable, usually oval or oblong-oval, acute or 

 tapering to base, acuminate, acute, entire or with a few large 

 teeth in upper part, glabrous, rather thick, paler and reticulate 

 with prominent veins beneath, petiole very short, bristly, stip. 

 small, unequal, setaceous, pubescent, persistent ; fl. small, 

 pedicellate, in small axillary or extra-axillary clusters ; sep. 

 very obtuse, concave, pubescent ; pet. a little longer than sep., 

 oblong-linear, deeply bifid, connective dilated ; ov. woolly, 

 styles 2, very short ; fruit ^ in., orbicular, didymous, com- 

 pressed, pubescent, grey-green, epicarp coriaceous, 2-valved, 

 splitting along the edge, stone thin, hard, rugose outside, 

 completely covered by a soft scarlet coat (mesocarp), testa 

 thin, pale brown. 



Moist low country up to 3000 ft.; common. Fl. March ; pale green. 



Also in East Bengal, the Malabar coast, and Sumatra. 



The leaves are sometimes hairy beneath, and the plant is then var. /3. 

 Thw. (C. P. 1 23 1 from Galle and Ratnapura). 



Very Euphorbiaceous in aspect, and much like some species of 

 Cleistanthiis. 



XXXV.— OLACINE^. 



Trees or shrubs, sometimes climbing ; 1. alternate, simple, 

 without stip. ; fl. small, regular, bisexual or rarely dioecious ; 

 cal. usually small, 4-5-lobed, or obsolete ; pet. 4 or 5, distinct 

 or coherent into a tube, valvate or imbricate ; stam. 3, 4, 5, 

 8 or 10, often with staminodes, opposite to or alternate with 

 pet., distinct, free or rarely adnate to pet. at base ; disk 

 annular or cup-shaped (large and epigynous in Stronibosui) ; 

 ov. (inferior in Strombosia) 1-5-celled, with i or-2 pendulous 

 (erect in Qinsjem) naked ovules in each cell ; fruit a drupe, 



