Ximenia?^ OlaClJtecE. 255 



with a hard, woody or crustaceous stone, i -celled, i -seeded ; 



embryo with usually leafy cotyledons, endosperm copious, 



fleshy. 



Fl. bisexual (exc. some in Goinphandra). 



Stam. 8 or 10 i. XlMENlA. 



Stam. 3, with 5 staminodes 2. Olax. 



Stam. 4 or 5, opp. pet. 

 Dichlamydeous, stam. 5. 



Stam. adnata to pet. (ov. inferior) . . .3. Strombosia. 

 Stam. free (with 5 staminodes) . . .4. Opilia. 

 Monochlamydeous, stam. 4 (with 4 staminodes) 5. Cansjera. 

 Stam. 4 or 5, alternate with pet. {Icacinece). 

 Pet. glabrous inside. 



Fil. strongly bearded at top, stigma minute . 6. Lasianthera. 

 Fil. slightly glandular-hairy at top; stigma 



large, disciform ; pet. connate . . .7. Goimphandra. 

 Fil. glabrous ; style lateral; pet. distinct . 8. Apodytes. 



Pet. hairy inside 9. Mappia. 



Fl. unisexual, dioecious, monochlamydeous {Phyto- 



creiicce) 10. Pyrenacantha, 



Most of the 13 species are restricted to the low country, Xtmenia, 

 Pyreftaca7itha, and Olax scandefts heing confined to the dry region, whilst 

 O. zeylanica^ Stro7nbosia, Opilia, Lasianf/iera, Goinphattdra axillaris, 

 and Mappia occur only in the moist. The two last ascend into the 

 mountain zone, to which, however, Gomphandra coriacea and Apodytes 

 alone are restricted. 



I. XimSNIA, L. 



Shrubs or small trees ; fl. in small racemes ; cal. small, 

 cup-.shaped, 4- or 5-toothed; pet. 4 (or 5), covered inside with 

 long hair; stam, 8 (or 10), anth. long, linear; ov. 4-celled, 

 with a solitary pendulous ovule in each cell ; fruit a drupe, 

 stone I -celled, i -seeded, — Sp, 5 ; i in Fl. B. Ind. 



X. americana, Willd. Sp. PL ii. 338 (1799). Chiru-illantai, T, 



C. P. 2382. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 574. 



A small tree or shrub, much branched, young parts gla- 

 brous ; 1. 1-2 in., often closely placed on short lateral twigs, 

 oval, obtuse at both ends, minutely apiculate, entire, glabrous, 

 petiole I in.; fl. fin., shortly pedicellate, in small short-stalked 

 racemes of 3 from the ends of the lateral twigs, buds acute ; 

 cal. glabrous ; pet, oblong, revolute ; stam. as long as pet. ; 

 ov, glabrous, style as long as stam,; fr, fin,, ovoid, apiculate, 

 glabrous. 



Dry country; apparently very rare. Trincomalie ; Batticaloa (Capt. 

 A. Walker). Fl. Sept.; white. 



Found throughout Tropical Asia, Africa, and America. 



