Carissa.] A POCYNACF.JE. %\ 



Anthers included, corolla-lobes overlapping 

 to the right. 



Leaver whorled, mont'i of corolla with a 



ring of scales . . . . .9. Xericjm. 

 Leaves opposite, mouth of corolU with- 

 out scales. 

 Flowers i in. long, in lax terminal or 



pseudo-axillary cymes . . . 10. Trachelospermum. 

 FlowerB \ in. long, in coinpaot 3-choto- 

 moufl cymes forming elongated 

 leafy pmicles . . . .11. Ichnocarpus. 



1. CARISSA, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. InJ. iii, 630. 



Spinous densely branching shrubs, usually erect. Leaves opposite, 

 small, coriaceous. Flowers nearly sessile, white often tinged with 

 pink, arranged in lax terminal umbel-like or corymbose 3-chofomous 

 cymes. Calyx 5-part, rarely glandular within, lobes acute. Corolla 

 salver-shaped ; tube cylindric, dilated round the anthers, throat 

 without scales, lobes overlapping to the right (in the Indian species). 

 Stamens attached to the top of the corolla-tube, included ; anthers 

 ohlong, acute, the cells with obtuse bases. Disk 0. Ovary entire, 

 2-celled ; style filiform, stigma fusiform or columnar, minutely 2- 

 fid. ; ovules 1-4 in each cell, rarely more. Berry ellipsoid or 

 globose. Seeds usually 2, peltately attached to the septum, albumen 

 horny or fleshy, cotyledons ovate, radicle inferior.— Species 2, in Trop. 

 Asia, Africa and Australia. 



1. C. Car andas, Linn. Mantis*. 52; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i, 687; Boyle III. 

 270 ; Brandts For. Fl. 320 ; F. B. I. Hi, 630 ; Watt E. D. ; KanjiUl For- 

 Fl.Bch. Circ 232; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 479 ; Collett Fl. St ml. 311. 

 Prain Beng. PI. 668; Cooke Fl. Bomb, ii, 124.— Vern. Karaunda. 



A large erect evergreen shrub or small tree, glabrous except the 

 inflorescence. Bark yellowish-brown, scaly. Branch' ets usually alter- 

 nate, armed at their b:ise with a pair ot* stout g abrous sprjading 

 spines 1-1£ in. long, the branches gen-r^lly nnarmel. Leaves shortly 

 petioled, 1^-3 in. lung by 1-2 in wide, elliptic or obovate, obtuse or 

 shortly mucr mate, cuneate at the b 4 se, coriaceous d irk green and 

 shining above. Flowers white or pinkish, faintly scented, arranged in 

 terminal sessile or pednncled pubescent corymbose oymes ; pedils 

 short ; bracts linear, put esoent. Calyx pubescent, divided m< re than 

 \ way down int - lanceolate cili-ite segments. Co rolla-tube about £ in. 

 long, dilated upwards ; lobes lanceolate, acute, about half as lone as 

 the tube, pnbescent and ciliolate. Ovary glabrous, cells 4-ovuled. 

 Berry 4- or w»re-seeded, £-1 in. long, ellipsoid, smooth, purplish when 

 ripe. 



