4. Xylosma.] 10. BIX ACE M. [1. Casbabia. 



racemes. Ovary imperfectly 2-3-celled (or 1 -celled according 

 to works consulted). 1 A pretty tree in fruit witk innumer- 

 able deep-red globose berries J" diam. on pedicels £-J* 

 long, articulate near the base. 



Eavinea and along nalas, Singbhum (Tnia gara, Banskatta ravine, etc.) ; 

 Kochang, Gamble. Fl. Nov.-Dec Fr. ripens April. Evergreen. Renews 

 leaves Nov. 



L. narrowed both endc with 6-8 prs. oblique sec. n. ; yonng somewhat 

 gland-serrate. Petiole £-£''. M. racemes dense |M* compound, fls. with 

 10 fleshy red disc glands and about 26 stamens- Bracts linear-oblong 

 (ovate-acum. FBI.) Stigmas 2 small capitate (or stigma capitate W.B.I.) 

 Ovules few parietal. Berry with coriaceous pericarp and about 6\t*|gled 

 seeds, seated on the persistent calyx and disc. 



Fam 11. SAHYDACEA. 



Trees or shrubs with alt. often distichous simple leaves 

 with small deciduous stipules, and often minutely punctate 

 beneath. Flowers small greenish-yellow or white in axillary 

 fascicles, racemes or panicles. Calyx-tube hypogynous or 

 perigynous with 3-7 lobes. Petals as many or imbricate. 

 St. definite or indefinite, sometimes with interposed stami- 

 nodes, free or united. Ovary superior or half-superior 

 1-celled; style 1, capitate or 3-lobed, or styles 3-5. 

 Ovules several, placentation parietal. Seeds few to many on 

 the median lines of the 2-5 valves of a locnlicidal often 

 succulent capsule. 



Fls. fascicled, petals . ..*•'• I. Casearia. 

 Fls. panicled, petals present . • .2. Homalium. 



1. Casearia, Jacq. 



Trees or shrubs. L. distichous. Pedicels short, Jpinted. 

 Calyx inferior, deeply 4-5-lobed; persistent. St« 6-10 



1 Flacourtia and Xylosma, appear to me to be scarcely separable as 

 distinct genera. The one style of Xylosma is sometimes so short that 

 the stigmas appear distinct. 



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