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4. CANSJERA, Jusa. 



Climbing shrubs, sometimes spiny. Leaves alternate, entire, penni- 

 nerved. Flowers in short axillary spikes, hermaplirodite, mono- 

 chlamydeous. Perianth tubular or urceolate, regular, 4-5-lobed. 

 Stamens as many as the lobes of the perianth and opposite to them ; 

 filaments glabrous, free, or attached between the thick fleshy lobes of 

 the disk; anthers small, oblong, adnate, 2-eelled, dehiscing longi- 

 tudinally. Ovary superior, ovoid-conical, glabrous ; ovule solitary, 

 pendulous from a short placenta ; style cylindric ; stigma capitate, 

 4-lobed. Fruit superior, drupaceous, surrounded at the base by the 

 marcescent perianth ; mesocarp thin ; endocarp bony. Seed solitary, 

 erect, roundish ; embryo in the upper part of fleshy albumen ; radicle 

 superior ; cotyledons sometimes 3, very long, plano-convex. — Disteib. 

 Tropical Asia and Australia ; species 4. 



1. Cansjera Rheedii, J. F. Omel. Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 13, v. 2 

 (1791) p. 280. A climbing shrub, sometimes spiuy ; young branches 

 yellowish-green, pubescent. Leaves l^-Sf by g-l| in., thinly coria- 

 ceous, oblong -lanceolate or ovate, glabrous on both surfaces, base 

 narrowed or rounded, often slightly inequilateral ; main nerves 3-5 pairs, 

 curved, ascending ; petioles y^^ in. long. Flowers j'lj in. long, in 

 pubescent axillary spikes l-l in. long, one or two spikes from an axil ; 

 bracts minute, linear-lanceolate, one at the base of each flower. 

 Perianth pubescent externally, urceolate, 4-5-toothed, the apices of the 

 teeth recurved. Fruit about ^ in. long, ovoid or ellipsoid, orange-red, 

 surmounted by the remains of the style, glabrous. Fl. B. I. v. 1, p. 582; 

 Bedd. For, Man. in Flor. Sylvat. p. clxxix, t. 26, fig. 6 ; Trim. Fl. 

 Ceyl. V. 1, p. 259 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 45 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. 

 Nat. V. 11 (1897) p. 270.— Flowers : Nov.-Dec. 



Konkan: Law'.; Elepbanta, Graham; Salsette, Graham. Deccan : valley of the 

 Koina, Cooke ! S. M. Country: Parva Ghat (Belgaum districts), Ritchie ! ; hills east 

 of Belgaum, Ritchie, 926 ! Kanaka : on the Ghats in evergreen moist forests, Talbot ; 

 Yellapur, Woodrow. — Distrib. Throughout India ; Indian Archipelago, Hongkong, 

 N. Australia. 



5. GOMPHANDRA, Wall. 



Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, entire, penninerved (rarely 

 3-nerved at the base). Flowers small, polygamo-dicecious, cymose. 

 Calyx cup-shaped, minutely 4-5-toothed. Petals 4 or 5, inserted on a 

 short hypogynous disk, more or less connate into a corolla, free at the 

 apex, valvate, often absent in the female flowers. Stamens 4 or 5, 

 hypogynous, alternate with the petals ; filaments fleshy, flattened, 

 usually with a suiall tuft of gland-tipped hairs at the top on the back, 

 hollowed in front ; anthers small, pendulous from the apices of the 

 filaments, 2-lobed, dehiscing longitudinally. Male flowees with rudi- 

 mentary ovary sunk in the fleshy disk ; stigma minute. Female flowers 

 with long cylindric 1-celled ovary and large discoid stigma ; ovules 2, 

 collateral, pendulous from the apex, the funicle dilated. Fruit elongate, 

 drUpe-like, surmouuted by the remains of the stigma ; pericarp smooth, 

 thin ; endocarp leathery. Seed solitary, pendulous ; albumen fleshy, 

 bipartite ; embryo minute. — Disieib. Tropical Asia ; species 5 or 6. 



