194 xiv. BIXINE^:. (Hook. f. & Thorns.) [Flacourtia* 



different species. Wallich's specimens and four in Wight's Herb, are all we have seen, 

 and these are male. 



8. F. sepiaria, Roxb. Cor. PI. i. 48, t. 68 ; Fl. Ind. iii. 835 ; shrubby, 

 very thorny, thorns usually bearing flowers and fruit, leaves small obeor- 

 date obovate or oblong or cuneate-obovate or orbicular ^renate-serrate, when 

 old rigid coriaceous and shining, flowers dioecious solitary or few in nearly 

 glabrous racemes, stigmas 3-4. W. & A. Pr^/r. 29 ; Wall. Cat. <H57<; ; 

 Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. FL 11. F. obcordata, Ifoxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 835. H. cor- 

 difolia and rotundifolia, Rxb. Ilnrt. ]}tn<i. 73. Sideroxylon spinosum, 

 Willd. Sp. PL i. 1091 ; Rhe&l.r II>,rt. Mai. v. t. 39. 



Dry jungles throughout BENGAL, the WwfWUi TKMXSULA, and CEYLON. DISTRIB. 

 Java. 



. A very rigid thorny bush. Leave* $-3 in., usually more or less cuneate at the la-o : 

 when larger ami more membranous or more elliptic it is difficult to distinguish this 

 from F. liamontchi vars. 1 and 2. Flower gem rally solitary or t\vin in a very imper- 

 fect raceme, very small. MaL- {H/mf* o\ate, obtuse; female orbicular. titiymax 

 usually separate, on very short styles. JJrupe size ot a large pea. 



FLACOURTIA WICHTIAXA, Wall. Cat. 6672 is a Scepa. F. NIVEA, Moon. Cat. 70 is 

 Flueggea hucopyrun, \\ t. 



5. XYX.OSXKA, Forster. 



Characters of Flacmiiiia, but ovary with 2, rarely 3-6 few-ovuled parietal 

 placentas, a usually entire very short style, capitate stigma (in the Indian 

 species) and gloi> Deeded berry. DISTRIB. Species about i>r>, natives 



of all tropical regions. 



1. X. long-ifolium, ('!>* In Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 4, viii. 231; leaves 

 linear- or elliptic- or oblong-lanceolate acuminate obtusely serrate, nerves 

 spreading, flowers in .short racemes, rarely in hum panicles, bracts 

 ovate acuminate. Flacourtia ferox, Wall. mss. in V<>i<jt. Hort. Suburb. 

 Gale. 84. 



\Vi.si J;I;N II I.MAI.AYA on the outer rangos, ascending to 5000 ft., from Kumaon, Struck. 

 and Wint., to Marri, tStrtrart. A~>\M. at Noxvpin^ and ( iowahatty, Jnih-iitx, &c. 



A glabrous bush ; hraiieh.-s rather \<n\^, sh-nder. Leaves 4-9 by l-},-2% in., coria- 

 ceous, shining above, hase acute, rarely obtuse ; nerves 8-12 on each side the midrib; 

 jK-tiole - in. Racemes usually very uncart, ^ in., and crowded in the leaf axils, sessile, 

 ^any-flowered, glabrous or puberulous, rarely elongate and brauchetl. Flowers solitary 

 tr fascicled, i in. di-un. Jji-n // glabrous, ^ in. diam. The specimens with panicled in- 

 liorescence occur amongst those from Assam. 



2. X. controversum, Clos I.e. ; leaves elliptic or elliptic-oblong 

 (rarely lanceolate) acuminate obtusely serrate, nerves very oblique, flowers 

 panicled puberulous, bracts linear-oblong. Fkicourtia Cataphracta, Wall. 

 Cat. C674 0. 



NIPAL, Wallicli. KIT ASIA HILLS, Griffith; Churra, alt. 3-4000 ft., H.f. & T. 



Very near X. longifolium, especially the form of that species with panicled male 

 flowers ; best distinguished by the usually shorter (3-6 in.) leaves, often more mem- 

 branous, with invariably very oblique nerves and fewer of them on each side (6-8). 

 The sepals are equal or unequal, and the character of the bracts is perhaps not a very 

 good one. The iruit is alike in both. 



3. X. latifolium, II. f. & T. ; leaves broadly elliptic-oblong obtuse 

 or acute obtusely serrate or subentire, nerves few very oblique, petiole 



