178 The Flowering Plants of Western India. 



TRIBE 1. CARISSEJE. Anthers free from the stigma, ovary 

 of 2 wholly combined carpels, fruit a fleshy berry, seeds without 

 hairs. 



1. CARISSA. Erect armed shrubs, stamens included in the 

 tube, anthers lanceolate, berry 2-seeded. 



TRIBE 2. PLUMERIE^E. Anthers free from the stigma, ovary 

 of 2 distinct carpels united by the style, fruit generally of 2 

 follicles. 



2. RANWOLFIA. Smooth shrubs, leaves in whorls, corolla 

 lobes broad, stamens included, disk large, fruit a twin drupe. 



3. VINCA. Disk of 2 large glands. 



4. ALSTONIA. Trees with leaves in whorls. 



5. HOLLARHENA. Trees or shrubs, follicles incurved. 



6. TABERNJJMONTANA. Trees or shrubs, follicles pulpy. 

 TRIBE 3. ECHIHDEJS. Anthers forming a cone round the 



top of the style, cells spurred, ovary as in the last tribe ; follicles 

 with hairy seeds. 



7. WRJGHTIA. Throat of corolla fringed. 



8. NERIDM. Leaves whorled, throat of corolla fringed, 

 stigma broad and tubercled. 



9. ANODENDRON. Mouth of corolla contracted, style very 

 short, stigma thick conic, seeds large beaked. 



Note. Milky plants like those of this and the next order are 

 commonly called dhudi. 



1. CARISSA. 



(7. carandas. A smooth shrub, thorns long and straight, 

 leaves oval, shining, flowers white or slightly tinted, fragrant, 

 fruit round or oval, deep purple, the pulp exceedingly sticky. 

 Karanda, hartundi. 



Very common in many parts. Throughout the dry, sandy, and 

 rocky soils of India (H.). 



The stickiness of the fruit is a serious drawback, but the flavour is 

 very good, and it is perhaps the best in this country of 



" Such cooling fruit, 

 As the kind hospitable woods supply." Milton. 



D.'s C. spinarum appears not to be in H. It is a shrub in gardens 

 almost exactly like the Karanda, except that the fruit is the size of an 

 olive, and cherry-coloured. 



* C. spinarum (G. hirsuta D.), "probably a state of the first" (H.), 

 but smaller in most points and slightly hairy. Hills E. of Belgaum 

 (D. and #.). * C. macr< phylla (C. lanceolata, D.). A large shrub, 

 thorns very strong and curved, leaves lanceolate, acute, fruit size of 



