128 LX'xxii. APOCY^^iC•E.E. 



peduncles are not a constant character. I have found erect and decurved 

 peduncles on the same plant. 



KoNKAN : Law ! ; Poladpur, Woodrow ! Deccan : Lauoli, Gammie, Kanifkar ! ; 

 Mahableshwar, CookeX S. M. Country: Ramglu'it, Ritchie, 1850! Ka.v ara : common 

 in the forests of the Supa division of N. Kanara, Talbot ; Ainshi Ghat, Talbot, 1190! 

 — DiSTRiB. India (Khasia mountains, Western Peninsula) ; Ceylon. 



Jiauivolfia canescens, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 2 (1762) p. 303. A small 

 shrub with whorled ovate-oblong leaves, small white flowers and dark- 

 red drupes, a native of the West Indies, has been occasionally grown in 

 gardens. Dalz. & Gibs. Suppl. p. 53. 



3. CERBERA, Linn. 



Small glabrous trees or large shrubs. Leaves alternate or scattered, 

 long ; nerves slender, horizontal and parallel. Flowers large, white or 

 red, in terminal cymes. Calyx 5-partite, without glands inside ; 

 segments long. Corolla subinfundibuliform ; tube short, the throat 

 slightly dilated, ribbed or with pubescent scales inside ; lobes 5, broad, 

 spreading, longer than the tube, overlapping to the left. Stamens 

 included ; anthers lanceolate, apiculate, the cells rounded at the base. 

 Disk 0. Carpels of the ovary 2, distinct ; ovules 4 in each carpel, on 

 both sides of a thick placenta ; style filiform ; stigma large, ovoid, with 

 2 truncate points. Fruit usually of 1 (rarely 2) globose ovoid or 

 ellipsoid 1-2-seeded carpels ; pericarp very thick, fibrous and woody. 

 Seeds broad, compressed, peltately attached to the enlarged placenta ; 

 albumen ; cotyledons thinly fleshy ; radicle very short. — Distrib. 

 Madagascar, Tropical Asia, and the Pacific Islands ; species 4. 



1. Cerbera OdoUam, Gcertn. Fmct. v. 2 (1791) p. 193. A small 

 tree or largt; shrub with an acrid milky poisonous juice, glabrous ; 

 branchlets whorled, stout, marked with leaf-scars. Leaves alternate, 

 closely set at the ends of the branches, 5-10 by 1|-2| in., coriaceous, 

 black when dry, lanceolate, oblanceolate or oblong-obovate, suddenly 

 acuminate, glabrous, much tapering to the base ; main nerves numerous, 

 slender, horizontal, connected by an intramarginal nerve ; petioles 

 |-1| in. long. Flowers large, white with a yellow throat, odorous, in ter- 

 minal peduncled paniculate cymes ; peduncles 2-6 in. long; pedicels stout ; 

 bracts colored, |-1 in. long, oblong, acute, caducous. Calyx glabrous ; 

 segments |-1 in. long, linear-oblong, very acute, recurved. Corolla- 

 tube |-| in. long, the upper part dilated, the throat nearly closed by 5 

 pubescent proji-cting wing-like ribs ; lobes longer than the tube, broadly 

 elliptic, acute, oblique. Ovary of 2 distinct carpels united by a single 

 style. Fruit (from the suppression of 1 carpel) a drupe 2-4 in. long, 

 subglobose, smooth, green. Seed usually solitary. Fl. B. I. v. 3, 

 p. 038; Grab. Cut. p. 116; Dalz. & Gibs. Suppl. p. 53; Wight, Icon. 

 t. 441 ; Bedd. For. Man. in Flor. Sylvat. p. clvii ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 3, 

 p. 128; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 224 ; Woodr. in Journ. ]k-)mb. Nat. 

 v. 12 (1898) p. 165 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 2, p. 256.— Flowers : 

 June-Jan. Vern. Sulcanu. 



Not very common in the TJombay Presidency though abundant to the soutli on the 

 Malabar coast. Kokkan : salt-swamps in S. Konkan, Gruham; Anant (S. Konkan), 



