74 Myrsinece. \_JLgiceras^ 



shorter than 1. ; cal. pubescent, segm. large, rotiindate, with 

 a narrow membranous margin ; cor. % in. diam., lobes oval> 

 acute, not acuminate ; berry under | in., depressed-globose^ 

 dark purple. 



Low country; rather rare. Kalutara (Moon); Colombo; Galle ; 

 Batticaloa. Fl. Jan., Feb.; dull pink. 



Throughout India, Malaya, and China. 



This seems to be A. elliptica, Thunb., without much doubt, as given 

 by Thwaites. Thunberg's brief description fits, and he gives the correct 

 native name; he collected it on the coast road between Colombo and 

 Matara (see his ' Florula Ceilanica,' p. 4), where it is still found. 



A. solanacea, Ro-xb., is a common garden shrub with larger purplish 

 fl.; not found wild in Ceylon. It is also called 'Balu-dan'; and is 

 figured (as A. hufnilis) in Wight, Ic. t. 12 12. 



5. SZGICERAS,* Gaertn. 



Shrub or small tree, 1. alt., simple, fl. in terminal umbels; 

 cal.-persistent, segm. 5, almost distinct, twisted in jestivation; 

 cor.-tube short, campanulate, lobes 5, reflexed, strongly- 

 twisted in bud ; stam. 5, inserted in cor.-tube, anth. many- 

 celled with transverse septa within ; ov. superior, i -celled, 

 with many ovules on free central placenta, style simple, 

 pointed ; fruit coriaceous, follicular (or indehiscent), cylin- 

 drical, curved, very acute ; seed solitary, without endosperm, 

 embryo erect, germinating in the fruit, with a very long 

 radicle and very short cotyledons. — Monotypic. 



H:. inajus,t Gaertn. Fruct. i. 216 (17S8). Hin-kadol, .b'. Vitll- 

 kanna, T. 



Moon Cat. 18. Thw. Enum. 174. C. P. 1796. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iii. 533. Wight, 111. t. 146. 



A small tree, 4-12 ft., much branched, bark silvery-grey, 

 smooth, young parts glabrous ; 1. 1^-3 in., on short stout 

 petioles, oval- or obovate-oblong, tapering to base, rounded 

 and often emarginate at apex, entire, glabrous, thick, pale green, 

 somewhat glaucous beneath ; fl. moderate-sized, numerous, on 

 rather long slender glabrous ped., in simple, sessile, terminal 

 or leaf-opposed umbels ; cal. glabrous, segm. broad, very 

 obtuse ; cor. very thick, tube woolly within, lobes very acute> 

 triangular, reflexed; fruit 1^-3 in., falcately curved, very 



* From the resemblance of the fruit to a ram's horn. 

 t Gaeriner's ^iS". ;//z///^j is Rourea sanialoides^ W. and A. (see Pt. 2, 

 p. I). 



