Salacia.] xxxix. CELASXRiNEiE. 461 



I in. through rugose (when dry) bright red. Hab. On the borders 

 of woods. Singapore, Garden Jungle. Malacca (Maingay). 



Somewhat like S. Wrayi, but the leaves larger and the pedicels longer. 



(14) S. Maingayi Lawson, I.e. i. 626; King, I.e. 363. S. 

 Lobbii Lawson, I.e. 



Climber 6 to 15 ft. long. Branches minutely warty. Leaves 

 coriaceous ovate-elliptic cuspidate, base rounded ; nerves prominent 

 beneath, 5 to 7 pairs, 2*5 to 4*5 in. long, i"25 to 2'05 in. wide; 

 petioles '25 to "3 in. long. Flowers i or 2 in axils '45 in. across, 

 greenish yellow; pedicels "3 in. long. Calyx lobes reniform. 

 Petals oblong rounded. Disc deep glabrous. Stamens 3 attached 

 to upper part of disc ; filaments triangular. Ovary sunk in disc. 

 Style none. Hah. Open jungle, hills, Perak, Larut Hills (Kunstler). 

 Penang Hill (Maingay, Curtis). 



5. Lobbii Laws, appears to be a form of this with more oblong leaves and 

 longer pedicels. 



Order XL. RHAMNEiE. 



Climbing shrubs, bushes, or small trees, often spiny. Leaves 

 alternate rarely opposite, usually coriaceous, often tri-nerved and 

 usually crenate or serrate. Flowers usually bisexual small green 

 or yellowish in cymes axillary, or in false panicles. Calyx 4- or 

 5-lobed, lobes triangular. Petals 4 or 5 on the throat of the calyx 

 tube, hooded or lobed, very small. Stamens 4 or 5 opposite petals. 

 Disc filling or lining the calyx tube. Ovary free or immersed in 

 the disc, 3- rarely 2- or 4-celled ; ovules one in a cell ; style simple 

 or 2- to 4-cleft. Fruit a capsule, samara or drupe, 3- or i- to 

 4-celled, free or half enclosed in the calyx tube. Species about 

 420, whole world. 



Fruit superior drupaceous. 



Spiny trees or shrubs ; disc 5- to lo-lobed . . i. Zizyphus 



Slender climber, not spiny; disc cup-shaped lining 



tube . . . . . . . .2. Sageretia 



Shrub or tree, unarmed ; disc thin lining tube . 3. Oreorhamnus 



Fruit half inferior dry; shrubs unarmed. 



Fruit capsular 3-celled ; 3 seeds; bush or tree 



erect . , . . . . , -4. Colubrina 



Fruit winged i-celled; seed i; climbers. 



Fruit indehiscent sub-globose with one narrow 



wing . . . . . . . .5. Ventilago 



Fruit dehiscent oblong or ovate lanceolate flat . 6. Smythea 

 Fruit inferior 3-winged . . . . . • 7- Gouania 



1. ZIZYPHUS, Juss. 



Small trees, bushes or climbing shrubs with stipular straight 

 or hooked prickles. Leaves alternate tri-nerved coriaceous. Flowers 



