3. Placoubtia. ] 10. BIXACEM. [4. Xtlosma. 



3, Flacourtia, Commers. 



1. P. Kamontchi, L'Herit. Merhle, K. ; Merlec,' 8. ; 

 Kanter, S, ; Katai, H., Beng. 



A tree or shrub, usually thorny, with crenate-serrate 

 often olive-green leaves and yellowish-green fls. }" diam. 

 either clustered or racemed or some also solitary in the axila 

 of scales or leaves. Pedicels artioulate below the middle. 

 Sep. 4-6 pubescent or hirsute -^frs ^ * ne ^« vei T ear ly 

 disclosing the yellow stamens. Disc-lobes 4-6 rounded often 

 lobulate. Styles usually 4-6 small capitellate. Ovules 2 

 superposed in each cell. Fruit a berry §-£* diam. with as 

 many pyrenes as seeds. 



Very common throughout the area both in the valleys and on the hilla» 

 and in second growth forest. Fl. Decr.-March. Fr. ripens April-May. 

 Deciduous juBt before flowering, but the new shoots appear with or, in 

 some cases, a little later than the flowers. 



The fruit is very palatable. 



The following forms look very distinct : — 



a (Var. sapida F.B.I. ?, the racemes' are pubescent ) Small tree or 

 shrub* young twigs slender reddish pubescent. L. 2\" by 1§" oblong to 

 obovate, glabrescent. Sec. n. 3-5 prs. Petiole f, pubescent. Hills. 



0. (Var. occidentalis F.B.I.) Similar but leaves often orbicular and 

 permanently pubescent or tomentose beneath. Usually very thorny and 

 shrubby. Hills. 



y. (Var. latifplia F.B.V). A tree. L. often 5 by 2f '' ovate or ovate- 

 lanceolate or narrow- ellip. acuminate, old glabrous except on mid-rib 

 beneath. Mature twigs and petioles pubescent. Sec. n. 1-2 prs. from the 

 base and 4-5 prs. above the base. Valleys. One specimen in Gangpur 

 4-5 ft. girth with leaves 3-6'' long and fr. f " diam. 



4. Xylosma, Fors. 



i. X. longifolium, Clos. Dandal, Katai ; Katari, IT, 



A small glabrous tree, 6ften with long thorns when young, 



with lanceolate acuminate shallowly toothed leaves 3-6" 



Long and small greenish fls. in short axillary compoun4 



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