522 LX. SAMYDACE.^. 



them, or more, in fascicles opposite the petals, alternating with sta- 

 minodes ; filaments filiform ; anthers small, didymous. Ovary ^-superior ; 

 ovules many or few, attached to 2-5 parietal placentas ; styles 2-5, 

 filiform ; stigmas capitellate. Capsule ^-superior, coriaceous, 2-5- 

 valved, few-seeded. Seeds angled or oblong ; testa crustaceous ; 

 albumen fleshy ; cotyledons fohaceous. — Disirib. Asia, Africa, N. 

 Australia, Fiji Islands, Tropical America ; species 30. 



1. Homalium zeylanicum, Benth. in Joum. Linn. Soc. v. 4 (1860) 

 p. 35. A tree reaching GO ft. high and 2| ft. in diam. ; bark smooth, 

 grey, lenticellate, breaking off in irregular pieces. Leaves 3-4| by 

 l|-2i in., elliptic, acumiuate, crenate-serrate, glabrous and shining on 

 both sides, base narrowed into the petiole ; main nerves 8-10 pairs, 

 prominent and purplish-red beneath ; petioles -^-1 in. long, puberulous. 

 Elowers greenish-white, in long panicles, arranged in numerous clusters 

 along a slender rhachis 6-9 in. long ; pedicels Jg- to ^ in. long, arti- 

 culated beneath the calyx ; buds pear-shaped. Calyx pubescent, yL in. 

 long ; lobes 4-5, slightly longer than the turbinate tube, oblong, sub- 

 acute, ciliate, open. Petals 4-5, equalling or a little longer than the 

 calyx-lobes, obovate, ciliate. Stamens as many as the petals and longer 

 than them ; staminodes rounded, pubescent. Styles 3-4. Fruit not 

 seen. Fl. B. I. v. 2, p. 596 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 53 ; Bedd. Flor. Sylvat. 

 t. 210 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 2, p. 239 ; Taib. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 178 ; 

 Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898) p. 639 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. 

 Prod. v. 4, p. 262.— Flowers : Apr.-May. 



Konkan: Stocks], Law] S. M. Country: Parva Ghat, Eitckic, IQiAl; Eamghat, 

 Dahell tf- Gibson. Kanaka : evergreen forests of the N. Ghats of N. Kanara, 

 Talhot ! — DiSTRiB. India (W. Peninsula) ; Cej-lon. 



Order LXI. PASSIFLORACE-ffi. 



Shrubs or herbs usually twining. Leaves alternate, petiolate, simple, 

 lobed, or palmately 3-7-foliolate, frequently glandular beneath ; petiole 

 usually glandular ; stipules or twin, deciduous or persistent. Tendrils 

 axillary or 0. Flowers hermaphrodite or unisexual, solitary, racemose 

 or cymoso-paniculate, often showy ; bracteoles 3 (rarely 0), minute and 

 scattered or foliaceous and forming an epicalyx. Calyx-tube short or 

 long, coriaceous or herbaceous, persistent ; lobes 5, imbricate. Petals 

 or as many as the calyx-lobes, inserted in the tube of the calyx, free or 

 connate into a campanulate corolla, membranous, coriaceous or fleshy, 

 imbricate, often marcescent. Corona simple or double, springing from 

 the throat or bottom of the calyx, tubular or split into erect or radiating 

 filaments (rarely 0). Stamens 5, on a gynophore or free at the base, 

 perigynous ; filaments subulate or filiform, free or monadelphous ; 

 anthers didymous or oblong, basifixed or versatile, the cells dehiscing 

 introrsely. Ovary superior, free, 1-celled, sessile or stalked ; ovules 

 numerous, attached to parietal placentas, the funicle often expanded 

 into a cup-shaped aril ; styles 1 or 3 ; stigmas capitate, clavate or 

 dilated, sometimes many-fid. Fruit baccate or capsular. Seeds nume- 

 rous, usually ovoid, compressed, often pitted, covered with a fleshy aril ; 

 albumen fleshy ; embryo rather large ; cotyledons leafy ; radicle terete.-^ 



