Carissa. 735 
follicular. Seeds not comose, exarillate; endosperm 
(if any) smooth, rarely grooved and ruminate, Coty- 
ledons flat. 
I. Ovary synearpous, 1—2-celled ........ . 1. Carissa. 
II. Ovary apocarpous,. 
ajelittleshrabs or “henbssiiiih s°. Sites .6aerig 2: \Vinea. 
b) Trees or tall shrubs 3 
B. Tribe I: Echitoideae. — Corolla various; lobes over- 
lapping to the right. very rarely to the left, or indu- 
plicate-valvate or valvate. Anthers usually sagittate; 
anther-cells diverging below, the outer halves passing 
into barren tailed appendages; foot of the connective 
free, generally provided with projections and regularly 
arranged groups of spreading hairs. Ovary apocarpous, 
rarely syncarpous; stigma various, exuding a glutinous 
matter and tightly agglutinated or adnate to the foot 
of the connective, very rarely to the base of the fila- 
ments. Fruit dry, follicular. Seeds comose, very rarely 
not; or witb a basal or apical plumose awn; endosperm 
smooth, often scanty. Cotyledons flat, semiterete, con- 
volute: ‘or ‘coxntortuplicate! TOW UW TOSes eee, A Neri, 
419. (1.) Carissa Linn. 
Calyx small, eglandular, very rarely multiglandular within; 
sepals 5, very rarely 4, free or nearly so, imbricate, acute or acu- 
minate. Corolla salyer-shaped; tube slightly widened below the 
mouth or near the middle; lobes usually overlapping to the right, 
rarely to the left. Stamens enclosed in the widened part of the 
corolla-tube; filaments short, slender; anthers oblong, acute; cells 
obtuse at the base, polliniferous and dehiscing to the base. Disk 0. 
Ovary entire, 2-celled; ovules 1—4 in each cell, from the middle 
of the septum, rarely more in 2—3 rows; style filiform; stigma at 
the level of the anthers, or rarely some way below them, oblong, 
papillose and viscous, with a 2-lobed hairy tip. Fruit baccate, 
globose to oblong. Seeds usually 1—4, rarely more, peltate, plano- 
convex; hilum central; endosperm horny; cotyledons ovate; radicle 
superior. — Much branched, straggling and usually very spinous 
shrubs or small trees, rarely climbing; spines opposite, simple, rarely 
forked, often very stout. Leaves coriaceous, very variable on the 
same individual; axillary stipules 9; axillary glands very minute 
and few, or 0. Inflorescence often umbelliform, or corymbiform, 
and much-contracted, terminal or pseudo-axillary, rarely cymose, lax 
