i.xx. i!ri!i.\(.'r..i;. T)'.!'.) 



twisted ill buil. Stamens 5 (rarely more) ; anthera subsessile, narrowly 

 liuear. Disk annular or cushion-shaped. Ovary 2-celled ; ovules 

 numerous, sunk in fleshy placentas; stylo short or slender; stigma 

 large, clavato or fusiform, entire or 2-fid. ]k>rry globose, ovoid or 

 ellipsoid, 2-celled, many-seeded. Seeds often immersed in pulp, an^^led ; 

 testa thin ; albumen horny; cotyledons orbicular. — DisTiiiB. Throughout 

 the tropics of the world ; species about 00. 



Aniiotl. Ercet trees or slirubs. 



Flowers 1-3, tcriiiinul ; calyx-limb persistent. 



Flowers exceeding 1 J iu. in diam. ; fruit exceeding 2 in. 



in diani 1. 7?. ulitjino.m. 



Flowers and I'riiit both less than 1 in. in diam 2. It. dumctorum. 



Flowers in cymes ; c:ilyx-limb not persistent '6. E. inalaharua. 



Unarmed; a climbing shrub 4. IL rur/ulosa. 



1. Randia uliginosa, DC. Prodr. v. 4(1830) p. 3SG. A small 

 tree rarely reaching 20 ft. high ; bark reddish-brown, scaly; branches 

 numerous, thick, horizontal (the younger 4-ang!ed), many of them short 

 and terminating in 1-2 pairs of strong sharp thorns 4 in. long. Leaves 

 fascicled on suppressed branchlcts, thin, 2.^-5 by ]|^-2 in., obovafe or 

 obovate-oblong, obtuse, glabrous above, more or less pubescent and 

 reticidately veined beneath, tapering to the base ; main nerves 0-8 

 pairs ; petioles very short ; stipules acute from a broad base. Flowers 

 solitary at the ends of suppressed branches, white, fragrant, I5-2 in. in 

 diam. ; pedicels short. Calyx | in. long, fleshy, green ; limb broadly 

 tubular with 5-7 broad rounded ciliate shallow lobes scarcely 1 in. long. 

 Corolla glabrous outside ; tube very short with a ring of white hairs at 

 the mouth ; lobes 5-7, orbicular, much overlapping. Stamens 5-7, sessile. 

 Ovary 2-celled ; ovules 00 ; style ribbed ; stigma large with subcon- 

 volute spiral lacinise. Fruit 2-2| in. long, ovoid, smooth, yellowish- 

 brown, crowned with the persistent calyx-limb, 2-celled. Seeds 

 numerous, compressed, smooth, closely packed in pulp. Fl. B. I. v. 3, 

 p. 110 ; Grab. Cat. p. 89 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 119 ; Wight, Icon. t. 397; 

 Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 2, p. 330; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 188; 

 Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Xat. y. 11 (1898) p. 645 ; AVatt, Diet. Econ. 

 Prod. V. G, part 1, p. 391. — Flowers : May-June. Yerx. Pdndhara ; 

 Pdndri. 



Throughout the Presidcney often in abandoned rice-fields, TaUiof. Fonkan : banks 

 of rivers in the Konkan, Graham ; S. Konkan, DalzeM S; Gibson ; near Pen, JVoodrow. 

 Gujarat : Porbander (Kathiawar), Woodnnu. S. M. Counthy : Grahavi; S. of Belgaum, 

 liUchle, 343 (a) ! Kanaka : Kala naddi, Ritchie, 343! — Distrib. Throughout India ; 

 Ceylon. 



The fruit is eaten when boiled or roasted. See Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. 1. c. 



2. Randia dumetorum, Lamlc Tab. Encyc. v. 2 (1793) p. 227. A 

 large shrub or small tree armed with strong straight nearly opposite 

 decussate spines i^-lj in, long, coming off from above the branchlcts ; 

 branches horizontal, rigid, many of the lateral ones suppressed and very 

 short. Leaves usually fascicled on the suppressed branches, 15—2-1- by 

 |-1| in., obovate, obtuse, wrinkled, shining above, more or less pubescent 

 above and on the nerves beneath (especially when young), base cuneate ; 

 main nerves 6-10 pairs; petioles ^-^1 in. long, densely pubescent; 

 stipules ovate, acuminate. Flowers at the ends of short leaf-bearing 

 branchlcts, fragrant, solitary or 2 (rarely 3) together; peduncles short. 

 Calyx h in. long, densely hairy ; tube broadly campanulate ; teeth 5, 



