7^ RUTACE^. 



small, in cymes or panicles, unisexual. Stamens of the 

 male flower as many or more than the petals. Ovary of 

 the female flower egg-shaped, entire, the carpels com- 

 pletely united, each with two ovules. Fruit leathery or 

 fleshy berry of several cells each with usually one seed. 



Species 9, in the tropics of the Old World mainly of Africa. 



Name taken direct from the Malay alam name kaka-toddali. 



Toddalia aculcata Pers. ; F.B.L i 497, IX i ; the 

 Toddali. A rambling woody plant, with stem near the 

 ground as thick as one's arm or, higher up, as one's wrist, 

 and there studded with pyramidal lumps of cork three- 

 quarters of an inch high. Twigs armed with curved 

 prickles. Leaves alternate, three-foliate : petiole I to I^ 

 inches, with an occasional prickle : leaflets sessile, i to 3 

 by J^ to I inch, obovate cuspidate with short blunt 

 acumen notched at the end, coriaceous, glabrous, finely 

 crenulate, dark green : midrib strong, lateral veins 

 numerous, slender, parallel nearly to the margin. 

 Flowers white /^ to J^ inch across, in close axillary 

 cymose panicles 2 to 3 inches long ; unisexual. Calyx 

 very small. Petals oblong, thickened and incurved 

 at the apex, male flowers globular in bud, the petals 

 shorter. Stamens equal in number to the petals ; ovary 

 rudimentary. Female flowers oblong in bud, the petals 

 longer and the ovary well formed on a low disc, with a 

 nearly sessile stigma lobed like it. Fruit the size of a 

 pea, with a few angular seeds. Embryo bent, enclosed 

 in a fleshy endosperm, t. 57 . Wight 111. t. 66. 



In sholas very common on both the Nilgiri and Pulney 

 downs ; extending even down to the plains and all over South 

 India. Very variable in regard to the size and breadth of the 

 leaflets, and on the plains usually a low shrub with smaller and 

 narrower leaflets. 



Gift. Dist. Widely over the Indian and Malayar. tropics, to Java, 

 Sumatra, China and the Phillipines. 



