220 IXIVIII. OLAOACBJJ. 



less adnate to the calyx-tube and disk. Seed pendulous ; albumen 

 fleshy, entire or lolied, rarely wanting; radicle superior; cotyledons 

 leafy, flat or folded, rarely fleshy. — Disthib. Tropics of both hemi- 

 spheres ; genera about 45 ; species about 220. 



Stamens 10; calyx not accrescent 1. Ximenia. 



Stamens 3 ; caljx accrescent 2. Olax. 



Stamens usually 5 (rarely 4). 



Stamens opposite the petals or the lobes of the calyx when 

 petals are absent. 



Stamens.'); ovary 3-5-celled 3. Strombosia. 



Stamens 4-6 ; ovary 1 -celled ; petals 4. Cansjkra. 



Stamens 5, alternate with the petals. 

 Trees or erect shrubs. 



Petals glabrous within. 



Petals connate 5. Gomphandra. 



Petals tVi^e 6. Apodttes. 



Petals villous within 7. Mappia. 



A climbing shrub 8. Sarcostiqma. 



1. XIMENIA, Linn. 



Shrubs or low tribes ; branches spiny. Leaves alternate, quite entire. 

 Flowers rather large, racemose, usually liermaphrodite. Calyx small, 

 4-5-toothed or -lobed, not altered in fruit. Petals 4-5, hypogynous, 

 valvate, hairy within. Stamens twice as many as the petals, hypo- 

 gvnous ; anthers innate, linear, erect. Staminodes 0. Ovary superior, 

 3-4-celled ; ovule solitary in each cell, pendulous, anatropous ; style 

 columnar : stigma simple. Drupe ovoid, 1-celled ; stone solitary. — 

 DisTEiB. Throughout the Tropics of both hemispheres ; species 4-5. 



1. Ximenia americana, Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) p. 1193. A small 

 much-branched spiny shrub ; young parts glabrous ; branches often 

 ending in a spine. Leaves coriaceous, 1-2 by 4-1 g in., elliptic, obtuse 

 at both ends, the apex sometimes emarginate ; petioles scarcely \ in. 

 long. Flowers white, fragrant, bisexual or sometimes polygamous, 

 I" in. long, in short racemes which are axillary or on the ends of lateral 

 twigs ; buds oblong, subacute ; pedicels sliort ; bracts minute, subulate. 

 Calyx small, glabrous, deeply divided ; lobes 5, ovate, acute, ultimately 

 reflexed. Petals much longer than the calyx, -^^ in. long, equalling 

 the stamens in length, linear-oblong, acute, shaggy inside. Ovary 

 glabrous, ovoid-conical, longitudinally sulcate, rugose. Fruit ovoid 

 or ellipsoid, |-1 in. long, deep orange when ripe; pericarp pulpy; 

 endocarp 1-celled, 1-seeded. Fl. B. 1. v. 1, p. 574 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 1, 

 p. 255; Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 44; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 

 (1897) p. 269 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 6, part 4, p. 319.— Flowers : 

 Jan.-Feb. 



S. M. Oodntrt: Kedur, near Badimi, Woodrow\ ; north-east of Belgaum, Sitchie, 

 9941 — DiSTRiB. India (E. & W. Peninsulas) ; Malaya, Tropical Africa, America. 



2. OLAX, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs often scandent, sometimes armed. Leaves alternate. 

 Flowers small, in axillary simple or branched racemes. Calyx minute, 

 cup-shaped, truncate or obscurely toothed, much enlarged in fruit, 

 enclosing the drupe, but free. Petals 4-6, hypogynous, free or more or 

 less coherent, valvate. Stamens (fertile) usually 3, generally opposite 



