Last'anthera.'] OlaClliecS. 259 



Also in Southern India, Burma, Malay Archipelago, and Trop. Africa 

 and Australia. 



5. CANSJERA,* //m. 



Climbing shrubs; fl. inonocJilaniydeoiLS, in spikes; perianth 



gaviopJiyllmis, urceolate, 4- (or 5-) lobed; stam. 4 (or 5), opp. 



per.-lobes, distinct, free ; staminodes 4 (or 5), alternating with 



stam., small, fleshy ; ov. i -celled, with solitary erect ovule ; 



fruit a drupe, stone i -seeded; embryo with linear cotyledons, 



in fleshy endosperm. — Sp. 4; 2 in Fl. B. Ind. 



This genus is probably more naturally placed in ThymelceacecE, as is 

 done in Thwaites' Enum. There is certainly no separate calyx present in 

 our species. 



C. Rheedii, Gmel. Syst. i. 280 (1790). Elta-mura, S. 



C. scandens, Roxb., Moon Cat. 12. Thw. Enum. 251. C. P. 3930. 

 Fl. B. Ind. i. 582 (not given for Ceylon). Wight, Ic. t. 1861. 



A small climbing shrub, much and divaricately branched, 

 the younger branchlets finely pubescent; 1. 1J-4 in., ovate 

 or ovate-lanceolate, acute or slightly rounded at base, 

 acuminate, obtuse, entire, glabrous, thick, petiole very short ; 

 fl. small, sessile, in small, pubescent, axillary spikes \-\ in. 

 long; per, with minute, rough pubescence outside, lobes small, 

 acute, recurved ; stam. as long as tube of per., staminodes, 

 very short, erect, ovate, acute; ov. conical, style a little longer 

 than stam., stigma capitate, 4-lobed ; drupe \-\ in., oblong- 

 ovoid, blunt, apiculate, smooth, red, stone thin, brittle, 

 crustaceous. 



Low country in both dry and moist regions ; common. Mannar, 

 Koenig (Mus. Brit.). Fl. Jan., Feb.; pale yellow. 



Also in India, Malaya, China, and Ti'op. Australia. 



The leaves are finely wrinkled and greyish-yellow when dry. 



Three women at Galle are said to have been poisoned by this plant, 

 eaten accidentally with vegetables. 



6. X.ASIANTKERA, Beauv. 

 Trees; fl. in axillary, pedunculate heads; cal. cup-shaped, 

 5-lobed; pet. 5, valvate; stam. 5, free and distinct, alt, with 

 pet, fil. flat, with a thick tuft of long white hair at top; disk 

 small, cup-shaped ; ov, i -celled, with 2 pendulous ovules, 

 tapering to subulate style, stigma minute ; fruit a drupe, 

 stone woody, i-celled, i -seeded ; seed with embryo in axis 

 of copious fleshy endosperm, cotyledons leafy, ovate, cordate, 

 — Sp. 5 ; 4 in Fl. B. Ind. 



* From Tsjerou-Cansjeram one of the Malabar names given by 

 Rheede for this plant. 



