256 OlacinecE. \piax. 



I have very scanty material for the description of this plant; the 

 C. P. specimens are without flowers, and the species is not given in Thw. 

 Enum. The leaves turn black in drying. 



2. OZ.AX, L. 



Shrubs or small trees, usually climbing ; fl. in racemes or 

 panicles ; cal, minute, truncate, cup-shaped, very greatly 

 enlarged in fruit ; pet. 5, more or less coherent into a tube ; 

 fertile stam. 3, inserted at base of pet. ; staminodes 5, inserted 

 with stam., usually bifid ; ov. surrounded by a small cup- 

 shaped disk, I -celled above, 3-celled below, ovules 3, pendulous 

 from top of central placenta, style long ; fruit drupaceous, 

 more or less covered by the greatly enlarged cal., stone 

 i-celled, I -seeded ; embryo minute in axis of endosperm. — 

 Sp. about 30 ; 7 in Fl. B. Ind. 



Climbers. 



Branches pubescent; fl. \ in. long . . . i. O. scandens. 



Branches glabrous ; fl. \ in. long . . . .2.0. Wighti.\na. 

 Erect . . . . ". 3. O. zeylanica. 



1. O. scandens, Roxb. Cor. PL ii. 2 (1798). Kadalrahchi, T. 



Moon Cat. 5. Thw. Enum. 42. C. P. 12 16. 

 Fl. B. Ind. i. 575. Roxb. Cor. PL ii. t. 102. 



A climbing shrub, with strong, slightly curved prickles on 

 the old wood only, much branched, branches cylindrical, more 

 or less pubescent; 1. i|-2|-in., oval or oblong-oval, obtuse at 

 both ends, entire, glabrous above, glabrous or pubescent 

 beneath, petiole \ in., pubescent ; fl. \ in., shortly pedicellate, 

 in axillary, pubescent racemes less than i in. long, bracts 

 ovoid, as long as ped., caducous, buds ovoid ; cal. finely ciliate; 

 pet. more or less connate, linear, acute, recurved ; ov. glabrous, 

 tapering, style half as long as pet. ; drupe globose, % in,, 

 apiculate, covered, except at top, by greatly enlarged mem- 

 branous cal. 



Dry region; rather common. Jaffna; Trincomalie; Anuradhapura; 

 Puttalam. Fl. August ; white. 

 Also in India, Burma, and Java. 

 The flowers are very sweet-scented. 



2. O. Wig-htiana, Wall. Cat. n. 6779 (1828). 



O. psil/acone/ii, \'ahl Enum. ii. 33 (partly). Thw. Enum. 42. C. P. 

 1215. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 575. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. anal. ix. f. 2 (fls. only). 



A very large climbing shrub, much branched, j'oung parts 

 glabrous ; 1. 3-5 in., oblong-oval, acute at base, acuminate, 



