286 xxiv. TERNSTRCEMIACE^:. (W. T. Thiselton Dyer.) [Actinidia. 



dioecious, in axillary cymes, rarely solitary. Sepals 5, slightly imbricate, 

 subconnate at the base. Petals 5, somewhat contorted-imbricate. Stamens 

 many; anthers dehiscing by slits. Ovary many-celled; styles as nu- 

 merous, divergent and elongated after flowering. Fruit baccate, containing 

 raphides. DISTRLB. Himalaya, China and Japan ; species about 8. 



1. A. callosa, Lindl. Nat. Syst. ed. 2, 439; glabrous, leaves broadly 

 elliptic setosely serrulate, sepals tomentose, fruit sparsely waited. A. Kolo- 

 mitka, Jtupr. in Maxim. Amur. 63. Dillen. ord. callosa, Wall. Cat. 6634. 



TKMPKKATK HIMALAYA, from Garwha^to Bhotan, alt. 4-8000 ft. ; KHASIA Mrs., alt. 

 4-5000 ft. DISTRIB. Mancliuria, .Japan. Looehoo Islands. 



A shrubby climber ; stems brown with white vorruculae. Leaves 4-6 by 2-3 in., 

 membranous, acuminate ; petioles 1--1J in. Flower* ^ in. diam. in small lax umbellate 

 cymes, white. Pedicels with an obsolete bract below the calyx. Sepals oblong, obtuse. 

 Style* clavate. fruit f in., ovoid. 



2. A. strigosa, Hook / <( Thorns, in Joarn. Linn. Soc. v. 55 ; strigose- 

 hispid, leaves ovate or oblong callously ciliate or denticulate, sepals nearly 



smooth. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 6-8000 ft., .7. D. H. 



A shrubby climber with th- habit of J. i-fillosa. Lmrcs 4-5 by 2-3 in., acuminate ; 

 petioles about 1 in. ./'/>nt<-[r short, '2 -1 flowered. Flowers f in. diam., shortly pcdi - 

 celled, white, /S'e/wfo elliptic, obtuse. Styles scarcely dilated at the apex. ' /'/?/// 

 1^ in., ovoid, mucilaginous, edible. 



8. SAURAUJA, Willd. 



Trees or shrubs. Branch/a usually brown with whitish tubercular dots, 

 at first as well as the leaves inure or less strigose-pilose or scaly. /^.//v.< 

 approximate at the ends of the branches, usually serrate, with parallel veins 

 diverging from the midrib. J ////<>/< *;-nce lateral, often from the axils of 

 fallen leaves, cymose, subtianiculate, rarely few-flowered. Jlmcts usually 

 small, remote from the calyx. / T /o//-, /-x usually hermaphrodite, .s'< /*//.- .">, 

 strongly imbricate. /'/, i/s r>, usually connate at the base. Statm-nx many ; 

 anthers dehiscing by pores. Ovary 3-5-celled ; styles as many, distinct or 

 connate; ovules many. Fruit baccate, rarely dry and subdehiscent. 

 DISTRIB. Tropical and subtropical Asia and America. Species about 60. 



* Flowers in axillary peduncled panicles. Styles 5. 



1. S. napaulensis, DC. Mem. Ternslr. 29 ; panicles 2-4 in. alternately 

 branched with a peduncle about 5 in., bracteoles deciduous elliptic acute, 

 sepals orbicular glabrous. Wall. PL Asia/. Rr. ii. 4o, 77, t. 178 ; Cat. 1469. 

 >S. paniculara. Wall, in (}. Don Gen. S't/st. i. 567. Ternstrcemia racemosa, 

 Don Prodr.$-2~>. Zanthoxylum Serra, Turcz. in Bull. Mosc. 1858, 44(). 



TKMI'ERATE HIMALAYA, from Bhotan and Sikkim, alt. 5-7000 ft, to Garwhal, alt. 

 2400-5000 ft. ; KHASIA MTS., alt. 5000 ft.; MISHMI MILLS. Criffith. 



A moderate sized tree ; youngest branches, petioles, midribs and peduncles covered 

 with scurfy tomentum, mixed with brown, deciduous, acuminate scales. Leaves 10-15 

 by 3-4 in., narrow oblong- elliptic, rounded at the base, shortly acuminate, strongly ser- 

 rate, nearly glabrous above, thinly ferruginous-tomentose beneath; petioles 1-1 i in. 

 Flowers & in. diam., pink. Sepals % in. Petals at length recurved at the apex. Fruit 

 green, mealy inside, edible, sweet. Seeds red-brown. Varies with elliptic obtuse leaves. 



2. S. Crriffithii, Dyer ; panicle 4-6 in. alternately branched with a 

 peduncle 6-8 in., bracteoles small oblong, sepals elliptic obtuse densely 

 tomentose externally. 



