■1S4. . RhamnaceC€. \Sageretia. 



lining cal.-tube; stam. 5, inserted at mouth of cal.-tube [peri- 

 gyiions)\ ov, free, 2-3-celIed, styles connate; fruit a slightly 

 fleshy berry, with 2 thin, woody pyrenes. — Sp. 8; i in 

 Fl. B. Ind. 



S. indica, Brongn. in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. i, x. 363 (1827). Tavadi, T. 

 Rhamiius circiiniscissus^ L. f. Suppl. PI. 152. Ceanothus zeylanicus, 

 Heyne in Roth. Sp. Nov. 153. Thw. Enum. 75. C. P. 1233. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 640. Wight, 111. i. t. i^y- Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. and xi. f. 1. 



A bush, with numerous, straggling, divaricate branches, 

 the younger ones usually provided with small, sharp, hooked 

 axillary spines, young parts puberulous ; 1. \-\\ in., obovate- 

 rotundate, acute at base, rounded or truncate, often emar- 

 ginate at apex, faintly crenate in upper part, glabrous and 

 shining above, paler beneath, coriaceous, petiole \ in., stip. 

 linear-lanceolate, attenuate; fl. on very short glabrous ped., in 

 small, very shortly pedunculate, axillary umbels as long as 

 petioles ; cal. glabrous, segm. lanceolate, acute ; pet. very 

 small, shorter than cal. -segm., bifid, enclosing stam.; stam. as 

 long as pet. ; berry over \ in., globular, apiculate, smooth. 



Dry country ; common. Abundant about Anuradhapura. Fl. March, 

 September; pale green. 



Also in S. India, Burma, and Mauritius. 



5. SAG-ERETZA, Brongn. 



Straggling shrubs, with straight axillary spines; 1. opposite 

 or nearly so ; fl. small, in very lax panicles ; cal. 5-fid, tube 

 short; pet. 5, minute, involute; stam. 5, inserted outside disk; 

 disk lining cal.-tube, margin free, 5-lobed; ov. free, 2-celled, 

 style very .short, 2-lobed ; fruit a berry, with 2 coriaceous 

 pyrenes. — Sp. 11; 3 in /^/. i?. Ind. 



S. costata, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 645 (1855). 



S. ajfinis, Thw. Enum. 410. Bcrcheniia parvijiora, Thw. Enum. 74. 

 C. P. 2477. 



Omitted in Fl. B. Ind. 



A straggling shrub, with slender, divaricate branches, often 

 witistraight, blunt, deflexed, axillary spines, young shoots 

 pubee^^nt ; 1. opposite or sub-alternate, 3-5 in., oblong-oval, 

 roundtl at base, acuminate, acute, finely serrate-denticulate, 

 glabroi on both sides, lat. veins 6-10, oblique, depressed 

 above, prominent beneath, petiole i|-^ in., spreading or 

 deflexe; fl. sessile, in little clusters of 1-3, very laxly 

 arrangec in slender, filiform, slight - branched, pubescent 



