246 XLI. UlIAMXACEiE. 



Sraineiis 5, eiielosed wittiin the petals ; filaments filiform. Disk thick, 

 filling tile oalyx-tube, annular, 5-angled or 5-10-lnbecl. Ovary sunk in 

 the disk and confluent with it, subglobose, 3- celled, attenuated into a 3-fid 

 or 3-partite style ; stigmas obtuse, papillose. Fruit subglobose, girt 

 below the middle by the tube of the calyx, 3-celled ; cells 1-seeded, 

 tardily dehiscent. Seeds obovoid, compressed, 3-gonons ; albumen thin, 

 fleshy ; cotyledons orbicular. — Distrib. Chiefly in the Tropical and 

 warmer parts of N. America ; species about 10. 



1. Colubrina asiatica, Brongn. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 1, v. 10 

 (1827) p. 369. A glabrous much-branched unarmed shrub. Leaves 

 membranous, 1^-3 by 1-2^ in., broadly ovate, acute or acuminate, 

 crenate-serrate or subentire, glabrous, rounded or subcordate at the 

 base; petioles |-| in. long. Flowers yellowish, in small axillary shortly 

 peduncled pubescent cymes which are shorter than the petioles. Calyx- 

 lobes broadly and acutely triangular, keeled on the inner face, scarcely 

 thickened at the apex. Petals as long as the calyx, enveloping the 

 stamens and longer than them, broadly obovate or orbicular, cucullate, 

 the claw short and very slender. Ovary 3-celled ; style 3-fid. Capsule 

 globose, quite smooth, | in. in diam. Seeds chocolate-brown, rounded 

 on the back, angled on the ventral side, slightly emarginate at the base, 

 smooth. Fl. B. I. V. 1, p. 642 ; Grab. Cat. p. 39 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 50 ; 

 Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 1, p. 285 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 63.— Vern. Guti. 



KoNKAN : Ghuts of the Kontan, Talhot ; Elophanta, Dalzell Sf Gibson, Graham ; 

 rear tlie sea at Ratnagiri, Stocks \, Dalzelll — Distuib. India (E. «t W. Peninsulas); 

 Java, Borneo, AustraHa, S.E. Africa, Ceylon. 



7. GOUANIA, Linn. 



Unarmed cliinbing shrubs, cirrhiferous. Leaves alternate, petiolate ; 

 stipules oblong, deciduous. Flowers polygnmous, small, in axillary or 

 terminal spikes or racemes ; rhachis often cirrhose. Calyx superior, 5-fid ; 

 tube short, obconic ; lobes 5, Petals 5, inserted below the margin of 

 the disk, cucullate. Stamens 5, enclosed within the petals ; arithers 

 dehiscing longitudinally. Disk glabrous or pilose, epigynous and filling 

 the calyx-tube, 5-gonous, or produced into 5 horns. Ovary sunk in the 

 disk, 3-celled ; style 3-parlite or 3-fid ; stigmas minute. Fruit coriaceous, 

 inferior, crowned by the persistent limb of the calyx, 3-winged or boldly 

 3-angled. Seeds plano-convex, obovate; albumen scanty. — Distkiu. 

 Chiefly Tropical American ; species about 50. 



], Gouania microcarpa, DC. Prodr. v. 2 (1825) p. 40. A shrub 

 climbing by circinate axillary or sometimes extra-axillary tendrils. 

 Leaves 2-4 by l-2i in., o\ate or elliptic, acute or acuminate, entire, 

 glabrous, penninerved, rouiuUd or subcordate at the base; secondary 

 nerves 4-0 pairs, the pairs near the base often opposite ; petioles |— | in. 

 long. Flo\\er8 in distant pubescent clusters, on the long branches of 

 spicate terminal and axillary jianidcs. Calyx pubescent outside ; lobes 

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

 spathulate, clawed, truncate or slightly emarginate at the lip. Disk 

 pubescent, the angles truncate. Fruit | in. long by | in. broad, pubes- 

 cent at first, aflei wards glabrous and polished, with 3 large lobee 



