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105 ! Kanaka : Eitchic ! ; common in the Supa district of N. Kanara, Talbot. — 

 DisrniB. Ceylon. 



The leaves undei' the name of KarripdJc are used to flavor curries, and the leaves, 

 bark, and root are employed in native medicine. See Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. 1. c. 



8. CLAUSENA, Burm. 



Trees or shrubs, unanned. Leaves imparipiimate, usually deciduous ; 

 leatlels membranous. Plowers small, in terminal or axillary cymes, 

 panicles or lax racemes. Calyx 4-5-lobed or -partite. Petals 4-5, free, 

 usually tender, elliptic or rotund, imbricate. Stameus 8-10, free, the 

 alternate a little shorter ; filaments dilated in the middle or below the 

 middle, subulate at tbe apex ; anthers short. Disk stipitiform. Ovary 

 4-5- (rarely 2-3-) celled, stalked ; ovules 2 in each cell, collateral or 

 superposed ; style usually distinct, at length deciduous ; stigma obtuse, 

 entire or 2-5-lobed. Berry ovoid, oblong or globose, 2-5-celled. Seeds 

 oblong ; testa membranous ; cotyledons equal, plano-convex. — DisiiiiB. 

 Chiefly tropical Asia, a feM* in tropical Africa and Australia ; species 14. 



Flowers in terminal panicles, usually 5-merous; ovules 



collateral 1. C.indica. 



Flowers in axillary racemes, usually 4-merous; ovules 

 sui^erposed 2. C. Wildenowii. 



1. Clausena indica, Oliver, in Joum. Linn. Soc. v. 5 (18CA),Sn2^pl. 

 2, p. 36. A shrub or small tree. Leaves 4-10 in. long ; petioles slender, 

 terete, glabrous; leaflets 7-13, alternate, 1^-3 by |-l^in., ovate-oblong 

 or lanceolate, obtusely acuminate, acute or rounded, notched at the tip, 

 crenulate, glabrous, shining, base very oblique ; petiolules -1- in. long. 

 I'lowers small, in terminal corymbosely branched peduncled panicles ; 

 pedicels short. Sepals ovate, acute, ciliolate. Petals white, elliptic, ^ in. 

 long. Ovary 2-5-eelled, glabrous, papillose ; ovules 2 in each cell, col- 

 lateral. Fruit nearly globular, ^ in. in diam., salmon- or cream-colored; 

 ptilp abundant, edible. PI. B. L v. 1, p. 505 ; Bedd. Por. Man. in Plor. 

 Sylvat. p. xlv; Trim. PI. Ceyl. v. 1, p. 221 ; Engler, in Engl. & Prantl, 

 Pflanzenf. v. 3, part 4, p. 187, fig. 108, l-o ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 32 ; 

 AVoodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 267 ; Watt, Diet. Ecou. 

 Prod. v. 2, p. 358. FiptostiiUs hidica, Dalz. in Kew Journ. Bot. v. 3 

 (1851) p. 33, t. 2 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 29.— Plowers: Apr .-May. 



S. M. Country : Parva Ghat, Dalzell ! Kanaka : common in the evergreen forests 

 on the Ghats of N. Kanara from Ainshi southwards, TaZJo!;. —Distrib. Ceylon. 



2. Clausena Wildenowii, Wigld ^ Am. Prodr. (1834) p. 96. 

 A large shrub ; young parts more or less pubescent. Leaves 6-16 in. 

 long ; rhachis slender, terete ; leaflets 5-15, membranous, distant, 2-4 

 by f-lf in., ovate-oblong or ovate-lanceolate, acute, obtuse or acu- 

 minate, more or less emarginate, crenulate, finely reticulately veined 

 and gland-dotted, glabrous, base very oblique ; petiolules -1- in. long, 

 pubescent. Plowers fragrant, in slender racemes 3-10 in. long, from 

 the axils of the young leaves and shorter than them. Sepals ovate, 

 acute, cihate. Petals white, i in. long, ovate, concave, reticulately veined. 

 Pilaments dilated at the base. Ovary 4-augled or grooved, cylindric, 

 4-celled ; ovules 2 in each cell, superposed ; style short ; stigma 4-lobed. 

 Pruit size of a large pea, ovoid, smooth, greenish- white, 1-2-seeded. 



