jSreym'a.] E^ipJiovbiacece. 33 



fr. a small globose berry ; seeds usually 6, testa bony, 

 endosperm scanty, embryo curved, cotyledons flat. — Sp. 6 ; 

 2 in Fl. B. Ind. 



r. leucopyrus, Willd. Sp. PL iv. 757 (1805). Hln-katupila, 

 6*. DIudpulanti, T. 



Flacoiirtia 7iivea, Moon, Cat. 70. Thw. Enum. 281. C. P. 2154. 

 Fl. B. Ind. V. 329. Wight, Ic. t. 1875. 



Large bush, with long straggling branches ; leafy twigs 

 horizontal, divaricate, rigid, usually ending in sharp spines; 

 bark white or grey ; 1. small, \-\ in., obovate, obcordate, or 

 rotundate, on short petioles, glabrous, entire, glaucous beneath ; 

 fl. pedicellate, in axillary clusters, fern, fewer than male ; sep. 

 obtuse ; stam. much exserted ; berry about \ in., globose 

 smooth, quite white when ripe, 3-celled. 



Dry country; common. Fl. June, Aug. ; green. 

 Also in Peninsular India. 



Easily recognised by its little white berries ; a very rigid thorny 

 shrub. 



F. Jtiicrocarpa, BI., which differs in being unarmed and with larger 

 but narrower leaves, is given for ' Ceylon, Kelaart^ in Fl. B. Ind. It is 

 a common plant in the Tropics of the Old World. I searched in vain in 

 Herb. Kew for a specimen. 



II. BXIEYNZA, Forst. 



Small trees or shrubs, with spreading branches, 1. small, 

 distichous, stipulate ; fl. very small, apetalous, axillary, 

 monoecious ; male fl. : — cal. very shortly 6-lobed ; lobes in- 

 flected ; disk o ; stam. 3, fil. connate in a central column, 

 anth.-cells linear ; pistillode o ; fem. fl. : — cal. more deeply 

 6-lobed, ov. 3-celled, with 2 ovules in each cell, styles 3, short, 

 bifid, or stigmas 3 ; fr. small, fleshy, dehiscent or not, seated 

 on cal., nearly globose; seeds 6, trigonous with rounded back, 

 testa crustaceous or bony, cotyledons broad, flat, endosperm 

 fleshy. — Sp. 12; 6 m Fl. B. Ind. 



Cal. greatly enlarged in fruit i. B. patens. 



Cal. not enlarged 2. B. RHAMNOIDES. 



I. B. patens, Hk. j. in Fl. B. Ind. v. 329 (18871 Wal- 

 xnurung-a, S. 



Phyllatithits fojuacea, Moon, Cat. 65. Melanthcsa tm-bmata^ Wight, 

 Ic. v. ii. 26 ; Thw. Enum. 285. Melanthesopsis patens, Muell. Arg. I. c. 

 437. C. P. 2143. 



Fl. Ii. Ind. v. 329. Wight, Ic. t. 1897 {^Melanthcsa truncatd). 



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