Ahionia.'] ApocyiiacecE. 133. 



Moist low country to 2000 ft.; common. Fl. April, May; white, throat 

 and tube yellow, very sweet-scented. Also in Malabar (.''). 



This is called ' Eve's Apple,' or the ' Forbidden Fruit ' by the English 

 in Ceylon. The flowers vary a good deal in size ; before expansion the 

 buds are covered with a skin of dry resinous exudation. The wood, the 

 bark, and the seeds are all used as external applications. Wood pale, 

 fine-grained, moderately hard. Milk not acrid. 



T. coronaria, Br., is extremely common in gardens (especially with 

 double flowers), and is only known as a cultivated plant. There are 

 specimens in Hermann's Herb.; it is Nertwti divaricatum^ L. (Fl. Zeyl. 

 n. 109), and Burman figures it in Thes. t. 59. It is, no doubt, one of our 

 oldest garden plants, and is of unknown origin. 



II. AZiSTONZA,^ Br. (non L. f.). 



Large tree, 1. in whorls of 7; fl. rather small, in terminal 

 paniculate cymes; cal.-tube very short, segm. 5, very obtuse, 

 imbricate; cor.-tube cylindrical, rather wide, hairy within the 

 throat, lobes 5, much shorter than tube, rounded, overlapping 

 to left; disk o; stam. 5, inserted in upper part of cor.-tube, 

 anth. distinct, pointed; carp. 2, distinct, stigma ovoid; ripe 

 carp, distinct, follicular, very long and slender, acute ; seeds 

 numerous, oblong, flat, with a fringe of hair at both ends, 

 endosperm scanty. — Sp. 30; 8 in Fl. B. Ind. 



A. scholaris,t Br. in Mem. IVern. Soc. i. 75 (181 1). Ruk-attana, 

 S. Elilaippalai, T. 



Echites scholaris, L., Moon Cat. 20. Thw. Enum. 193. C. P. 1840. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iii. 642. Wight, Ic. t. 422 (not good). Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 

 242. Bentl. & Trim. Med. PI. t. 173. 



A tall tree, trunk erect, branches whorled, bark grey, 

 rough but not furrowed, branchlets copiously lenticellate, 

 glabrous; 1. usually 7 in a whorl, at end of year's growth, 

 3J-6J in., oblong or obovate-lanceolate, acute at base, obtuse 

 rounded or emarginate at apex, very faintly crenate, glabrous, 

 bright green and shining above, paler with a white ' bloom ' 

 beneath, rather thick, lat. veins numerous, slender, not pro- 

 minent, petiole very short, with a blunt hooked fleshy process 

 on the upper surface at the base; fl. nearly sessi'e, in small 

 cymose clusters terminating whorled or umbellate branches 

 of erect pubescent panicles 3-4 in. long, bracts ovate, pubes- 

 cent ; cor. pubescent, lobes truncate ; carp, hairy ; follicles 



* Charles Alston was Professor of Botany in Edinburgh University 

 from 17 19 till his death in 1760. 



t The Lignum scholare oi Rumphius, the light wood being used to 

 make ' slates ' for school children. 



