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with recurved prickles. Leaves siibopposite, subbifarious, l-lg in. long, 

 orbicular, elliptic or obovate, entire, glabrous, dark green and shining 

 above; petioles ^^ in. long ; stipules subulate. Prickles hooked, usually 

 inserted a little higher up than the petiole and a little to one side of it. 

 Flowers small, in axillary umbels which are as long as, or somptinies 

 slightly longer than, the petioles ; peduncles and pedicels glabrous. 

 Calyx glabrous ; lobes ovate, acute, keeled below the thickened apex. 

 Petals deeply bitid, clawed, as long as the stamens. Stamens inserted 

 on the mouth of the calyx-tube and enclosed by the petals. Pruit | in. 

 in diara., globose, smooth ; pyrenes crustaceous, compressed. Fl. B. I. 

 V. 1, p. 640 ; Grab. Cat. p. 39 ; Ualz. & Gibs. p. 50 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 

 1, p. 284 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 53 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. 

 V. 11 (1897) p. 271. — Flowers : Feb.-Apr. Vern. Chimat. 



Very common on tlie higher Glials ; abundant, at Mahableshwar, where it is known 

 fii t\xQ " wait-a-hit" \hov\\. Konkan : Stocksl, Law'., Dahcll, 80! De( can : Phunda 

 Gh^t, Ritchie, y ! ; Mahableshwar, H. M. Birdwood, Cooke !, Woodrow ! Kanaka : 

 Ritchie, 80 ! ; Supa Ghats of N. Kanara, Talbot.— Bistrib. India (W. Peninsula) ; 

 Mauritius. 



5. SAGERETIA, Brongn. 



Shrubs unarmed or spinous ; branches often decussate. Leaves sub- 

 opposite ; stipules minute, deciduous. Flowers hermaphrodite, very 

 small, fascicled along terminal or axillary leafless paniculate branch'-s. 

 Calyx 5-fid ; tube hemispheric or urceolate ; lobes ovate, acute, keeled 

 within. Petals 5, clawed, cucullate. Stamens 5, equalling the petals or 

 nearly so. Disk cupular, tilling the calyx-tube, the margin free, 51ohed. 

 Ovary ovoid, sunk in the disk, free, 3-celled ; style short, 3-f urrowed ; 

 stigmas 3, capitate or obtuse. Fruit globose, coriaceous, indehiscent ; 

 pyrenes 3. Seeds oblong ; albumen thin ; cotyledons flat. — Distrib. 

 Central and E. Asia, Java and the warmer parts of JS". America ; species 

 about 11. 



1. Sageretia oppositifolia, Brongn. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 1, v. 10 

 (1827) p. 360. A shrub or small tree; branches slender, spinous, 

 tomentose when young. Leaves l|-4 by |-1| in., o\ate-oblong, acute 

 or acuminate, serrate, clothed beneath when young with a dense woolly 

 tomentum, base roundeil or cordate ; petioles | in. long. Flowers iu 

 sessile clusters along the branches of terminal and axillary tomentose 

 panicles ; buds globose ; bracts ovate, acute. Calyx pubescent outside ; 

 lobes triangular, thickened at the apex, keeled on the inner face. Petals 

 obovate, clawed, longer than the stamens, keeled on the back. Disk in 

 the form of a deep cup with free margin. Fruit obovoid, -^ in. long, not 

 lobed, black when ripe, edible. Fl. B. I. v. 1, p. 641 ; Brandis, For. Fl. 

 p. 95 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 53. 



KoNKAN : Stocks ! and ex Brandis 1. c. There is only one specimen in Herb Kew. 

 from Bombay marked " Konkan, 6Y'Wi-s."— Distrib. Throughout the greater part of 

 India ; Java. 



6. COLUBRINA, Rich. 



Erect or sarmentose shrubs. Leaves alternate ; stipules small, 

 deciduous. Flowers axillary, cymose or paniculate. Calyx 5-fid ; tube 

 hemispheric. Petals 5, inserted below the disk, clawed, cucullate. 



