Scufia.'] RhamnacecB. 28 



3 



ov. quite free, 3- or 4-celled; styles 2-4, more or less connate; 

 fruit a fleshy berry, with 3 or 4 hard pyrenes ; seed with 

 curved embryo, in scanty endosperm. — Sp. 60; 8 \\\Fl.B.Ind. 



Pet. o, stam 4 i. R. Arnottianus. 



Pet. and stam. 5 2. R. Wightii. 



1. R. Arnottianus, Gardn. in Thw. Emivi. 74 (1858J. 

 C. P. 201. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 638. 



A small tree, young parts puberulous ; 1. 2-2J in., ovate- 

 lanceolate, acute or obtuse at base, acuminate, obtuse, sharply 

 glandular -serrate, glabrous, coriaceous, venation reticulate, 

 depressed above, prominent beneath, petiole \~\ in., stip. 

 linear, soon falling, with a line of minute, erect, red, persistent 

 glands within; fl. axillary, on long, slender, puberulous ped. 

 longer than petiole ; cal. pilose, segm. 4, very acute ; pet. o ; 

 stam, 4 ; styles 2 or 3, united at base ; fr. \ in., supported on 

 cup-shaped, persistent, not adherent cal., pyriform-globose, 

 apiculate, purple-black. 



Upper montane zone ; rather rare. Pedurutalagala ; Horton Plains ; 

 Elk Plains ; Nuwara Eliya. Fl. May. 

 Endemic. 



2. R. "Wig-htii, W. and A. Prod. 164 (1834). 

 Thw. Enum. 74. C. P. 2525. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 639. Wight, Ic. t. 159. 



A large shrub, young parts puberulous; 1. 2-3I in., ovate- 

 oval or ovate, rounded at base, acuminate, obtuse, apiculate, 

 finely glandular-serrate, glabrous on both sides, petiole \ in., 

 stip. very early caducous ; fl. on glabrous ped., shorter than 

 petiole, 1-5 in axillary clusters ; cal. glabrous, segm. 5, 

 triangular; pet. 5, very small, spathulate; stam. 5; ov. 3- (or 

 4-) celled; styles 3 (or 4), connate half-way up); berry i in., 

 globose, supported on flat, persistent cal.-tube, tipped with 

 persistent styles, smooth, reddish-purple. 



Upper montane zone ; common. Fl. September; yellowish-green. 



Also in the hills of Southern India. 



Dries quite black. 



Nearly allied to R. F7'angnla^ the Alder-buckthorn of England. 



4. SCUTIA, Comm. 



Shrubs, often with axillary, hooked spines (abortive 

 branches) ; 1. alternate or sub-opposite ; fl. in small axillary 

 umbels; cal. 5-cleft; pet. 5, very small; disk inconspicuous, 



