80 RHAMNACEAE, [Colubrina. 
or combined into one. Fruit free or adherent to the enlarged and per- 
sistent base of the calyx, indehiscent and entire or separating into 2 or 
more l-seeded carpels or cocci. Albumen fleshy, usually thin, sometimes 
none. Radicle inferior; cotyledons flat. — Trees, shrubs or arawers ie 
simple, mostly alternate leaves and minute stipules. Flowers small, 
clusters or panicles. 
A considerable Order, spread over all parts of the globe; represented in Polynesia by 
the genera Ventilago, Smythea, Rhamnus and the following. 
Fruit globose, partly covered by — sehen ¢ aly=: 
Three-grooved at the apex, t g beyond 
the base 1. Colubrina. 
Not eae the calyci cine cup extending to the middle; seed 
ered b red filmy 2. Alphitonia. 
Froit tris y te heck sezaveld ceveeed ae the adherent calyx and crowned 
by lim . Gouania. 
1. COLUBRINA, Ts, A. Richard, 
Calyx 5-parted, with hemispherical tube and spreading triangular deci- 
duous lobes. Petais 5, inserted below the disk, unguiculate and cucul- 
late. Stamens 5, snelsesl by the petals. Disk thick, annular or lobed. 
Ovary immersed in the disk, 3- celled, terminating in a trifid style with 
obtuse stigmas. Fruit a subglobose dey drupe, ity 4 lobed, its base 
invested by the adherent calyx- tube, 3-coceous, the cocci opening along the 
inner side. Seeds obovoid, trigonous. Albumen ne cotyledons orbi- 
cular, radicle short. — ‘Shrubs or trees, with small deciduous stipules 
Flowers — in axillary cymules. 
About 10 species, mostly American, but our second species peculiar to the Hawaiian 
Leaves alternate . ‘ F : . ; : ‘ ‘ i 1. C, Ast 
Leaves opposite . ae Be prtene irre 
1. C, Asiatica, Dyin. lian. in Ann. Se. Nat. x, 368. — A large 
sarmentose shred quite glabrous. poate alternate, ovate or cordate, 
2—3' X 1—15/4‘, on petioles of 4—6“ cuminate, crenulate, penni-nerved, 
with 2 prominent basal nerves Which pemaenn toward the apex, mem- 
branous, glossy. Flowers greenis h, in eymose fascicles which are shorter 
than the petioles. Pedicels naked, 2—3". Calyx 1”. Petals as long, 
narrow ligulate , enfolding the short stamens. Fruit 3—4” in diameter, 
endocarp thin, separable. Seeds black, angular-conyex, the foliaceous 
cotyledons as broad as the albumen. — Ceanothus Asiaticus, L. — C.. 
capsularis, Forst. 
Near the seacoast here and goes on all islands. A native of the W. Indian islands, 
but found also on most islan ds of E. India and the Pacifie — Philipines, ‘samo, Viti, 
Hawaiian names «Anapanapa» and «Kukuku». Tahitian name: 
or oblong, 5—T! x 2-3", on pease of aomay thin chartaceous 
