8. MU8S2E2JDA.] 84. BTJBIACEM.\ [9. Randia. 



sub-sessile corymbose cymes of chrome-yellow flowers, 

 remarkable from ODe of the .sepals being large foliaceous and 

 cream coloured. Berry §' diam., with adpressed hairs. 

 Seeds minute. 



Forests on the Porahat plateau, rare. Pis. July-Aug.lHr. Sept. -Oct. 



L. pale beneath, acute or sub-acute, nearly sessile, base acute or 

 rounded, nerves strong 9-10 prs. 



M. macrophylla, Wall., a considerable shrub, also conspicuous by 

 its large white calyx leaves, is cultivated in gardens in Eanchi (fide 

 Wood.) The species usually cultivated in the plains is M.Roxburghii, 

 Hoohf., which may be distinguished from M. ! macrophylla by its persistent 

 sepals, those of M. macrophylla are deciduous in fruit. 



9. Randia, L, 



Small trees or shrubs, often armed with strong axillary 

 thorns. L. often fascicled on short branchlets. Fls. large 

 or m.-s. solitary or fascicled or in axillary or leaf-opposed 

 cymes, white turning yellow. Often dimorphic. Anthers 

 sub- sessile, linear or oblong. Ovary 2-rarely 3-4- celled. 

 Stigma usually large, fusiform. Fruit a 2-celled many- 

 seeded berry. 



Calyx-lobes linear, L. ovate. Berry small, black . . 1. fasciculata. 



Calyx-lobes ovate to obovate. L. obovate. Berry \-l\" . 2. dumetorum. 



Calyx-lobes short sub-orbicular. L. obovate to oblong. 

 Berry 2" 3. uliginosa. 



1- R. fasciculata, B.C. 



A shrub or small spreading tree with ovate or elliptic 

 acuminate leaves 1-3", straight slender axillary thorns, 

 white flowers f-lj" diam. with a slender corolla-tube \- 1£* 

 long, and small parple-black berries f", slightly contracted 

 upwards with a* prominent disc. 



Valleys in Singbhum. Fls. April-May. Fr. ripens following Jany.- 

 Feby. 



Twxgs pubescent. L. nearly glabrous exc. mid-rib beneath, sec. n. 3-4 

 prs. Petiole i*. Stipules linear caducous. Fls. 1-few together axillary. 

 Calyx hirsute. 



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