186 XXXII. RUTACE.E. 



Konkan: Stocks], BaLeUl; the Ghats, commo-a, I)aI::cU cf- Gihson. Kanaka: in 

 inuist, evergreen forests, Talbot; Mnndele, L'/tchie, 1047 I ; Diviniana Ghat, U'oodrowl 

 — DiSTRiB. Java, Ceylon. 



12. PARAMIGNYA, Wight. 



Erect or climbing shrubs, unarmed or with axillary spines. Leaves 

 1-t'oliolate (the articulation often obscure), subcoriaceous, persistent. 

 Flowers rather large, axilhiry, solitai'y or fascicled. Calyx cupular or 

 small and 4-5-lobed. Petals 4-5, free, imbricate or very rarely indupli- 

 cato-valvate. Stamens 8-l<), free, equal or subequal ; filaments linear; 

 anthers linear-oblong. Disk thick, columnar. Ovary 3-5-celled ; 

 ovules 1 or 2, obliquely superposed in each cell ; style elongate, con- 

 tinuous with the ovary, finally deciduous ; stigma capitate. Berry ovoid 

 or subglobose, often contracted at the base, 1-5-seeded ; rind thick. 

 Seeds large, oblong, compressed ; testa membranous ; cotyledons fleshy, 

 equal. — Distrib. Tropical India ; species 4. 



1. Paramignya monophylla, Wvjht, III. v. 1 (1840) p. 100. A 

 climbing evergreen shrub, the older branches armed with sharp re- 

 curved axillary spines g-| in. long. Leaves numerous, 1-foliolate, 

 gland-dotted ; petioles |-| in. long, usually twisted ; leaflets 2-4 by 

 l-2g in., ovate-oblong, acute, obtuse or acuminate, entire or nearly so, 

 glabrous, base rounded often oblique. Flowers white ; pedicels axil- 

 lary, 1-3 together, pubescent. Calyx softly woolly ; lobes 5, shallow, 

 rounded. Petals 5, linear-oblong, | in. long, recurved. Filaments flat, 

 lineal", hairy, suddenly tapering beneath the anthers. Ovary hairy, 3-5- 

 celled ; style long, stout, the lower part hairy. Berry obovoid or 

 ellipsoid, 1 in. long, smooth. Seeds numerous, large, compressed. 

 Fl. B. I. V. 1, p. 510 ; Grab. Cat. p. 25 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 30 ; Engler, 

 in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenf. v.' 3, part 4, p. 191, fig. Ill, A-c ; Trim. 

 Fl. Ceyl. V. 1, p. 224 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 33 : Woodr. in Journ. 

 Bomb." Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 2(57 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 6, part 1, 

 p. 110. — Flowers : IN o v. -Jan. 



Konkan : Law ! ; Ghats, Stocks ! ; Aniboli Gliat, Kmiifkar ! ; 23 miles west oC Ratna- 

 giri, Woodrow l ; jungles at Virdi and throughout the S. Konkan as tar as tlie Savitri 

 r'wer, DaLell cj- Gihson. Dkccan : Phunda Ghat, Ritchie, \.)^Xi\ \ 'Pav^^rdt, DahcU Sf 

 Gihsoii. S. M. CovsTiiY : HmnghiW, Jiitchie, Wo I Kanara : evergreen forests of IS. 

 Kanara, Talbot; Chaudawar (N. Kanara), Woodrow I— DisTiun. Ceylon. 



13. ATALANTIA, Corr. 



Shrubs or small trees, spinous or unarmed. Leaves alternate, 1- 

 fuliolate, coriaceous, persistent; slipule-hke scales which belong to un- 

 developed leaf-buds are often present at the base of the petioles and 

 spines. Flowers in axillary (rarely terminal) fascicles, racemes or 

 panicles, rarely solitary. Calyx 3-5-lobed, or -partite, sometimes irre- 

 gularly split. Petals 3-5, free or adnate to the stamens and united with 

 them into a tube, imbricate. Stamens 0-8 (rarely . 15-20), free or irre- 

 gularly connate into a tube, subequal or the alternate shorter; anthers 

 ovate-oblong or with a cordate base (linear-oblong in A. mls,sionis). 

 Ovary 2-4- (rarely 3-5-) celled ; ovules 1 or 2, collateral ; style at 

 length deciduous ; stigma capitate. Herry large, subglobose, 1-5-celled, 

 1-5-seeded. Seeds oblong : <;otyh'iIoiis fleshy, plano-convex. — DiSTElB. 

 Tropical Asia and China, 1 in Australia; species 10. 



