Tripliasia.} xxxm. RUTACE^:. (J. D. Hooker.) 507 



mucilage, testa coriaceous ; cotyledons plano-convex, often unequal or 

 lobed. 



1. T. trifoliata, DC. Prodr. i. 536; Oliv. Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 

 Suppl.u. 26 ; W.& A. Prodr. 91 ; Dale. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. Suppl 12. T. 

 aurantiola, Lour. ; Wall. Cat. 6381. Limonia trifoliata, Linn. ; Burm. Fl. 

 Ind. t. 35, f. 1. L. diacantha, DC. Prodr. i. 536. 



WESTERN PENINSULA, apparently common, but said to be an escape ; common in 

 gardens throughout INDIA and in various tropical countries. 



A glabrous spinous shrub, with straggling evergreen branches and leaves ; spines 

 slender, straight. Leaflets thick and soft, crenulate, coriaceous, almost nerveless, the 

 terminal shortly petioled, f-l^ in., ovate with a cuneate base and rounded notched tip ; 

 lateral smaller, more rounded, oblique. Flowers very shortly peduncled, nearly 4 i n - 

 long, white, fragrant. Petals\ linear-oblong. Fruit 4 in. long, fleshy, apiculate, gland- 

 dotted. Graham (Cat. Bomb. PI. 23) is probably mistaken in supposing that this, 

 which is considered by many to be a Chinese plant, is a native of the Southern Concan. 

 I am not aware, however, that it has anywhere been found in an indigenous state. 



17. LIMO3SX.&, Linn. 



Shrubs or 'small tree 5 , often spiny. Leaves alternate, 3-foliolate or impari- 

 pirmate ; leaflets opposite or alternate ; petiole winged. Flowers panicled, 

 racemed or fascicled. Calyx equally 4-5-lobed or -partite. Petals 4-5, 

 imbricate. Stamens 8-10, inserted around an annular or elevated disk, 

 filaments subulate ; anthers cordate or linear-oblong. Ovary oblong, 

 4-5-celled ; style short, stout, deciduous, stigma obtuse or capitate ; ovules 

 1-2 in each cell. Berry globose, 1-4-celled, 1-4-seeded. Seeds imbedded 

 in mucilage; cotyledons fleshy. DISTRIB. Species 2*-3, natives of Tropical 

 Asia. 



* Ce.lls of the ovary \-ovuled. 



. I. &. Gcidissisna, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. i. 536 ; spinous, glabrous, leaves 

 j, leaflets 2-4 pair sessile opposite obtuse crenulate, rachis broadly 

 winded, racemes subumbellate, flowers 4-merous. W. & A. Prodr. 92 ; 

 Grah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 23 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 29 ; Bedd. For. Flor. 

 Anal. Gen. xlv. L. crenulata, Roxb. Cor. PI. t. 86; Fl. Ind. ii. 381; 

 DC. I.e. ; Wall. Cat. 6364. Hesperethusa acidissima, crenulata and am- 

 bigua, Roem. Synops.feuc. i. 38. Rheede Hort. Mai. iv. t. 14. 



1 Dry hills in various parts of India, N.W. HIMALAYA in Simla and Kumaon, ascend- 

 ing to 4000 ft. ; Monghyr hills in BEHAR ; ASSAM ; WESTERN PENINSULA, from the 

 Bombay Ghats and Coromandel southwards. YONAN, J. Anderson. 



A spinous glabrous shrub or small tree, with rigid flexuous woody branches ; spines 

 4-1 in. Leaves 1-4 in. long ; petiole and rachis jointed, the former narrowly the latter 

 very broadly winged; leaflets 1-2 in., trapezoid-ovate, obtuse and notched at the tip, 

 base cuneate, margins crenulate, nerves slender reticulate ; joints of rachis obovate- 

 oblong, crenulate. Racemes 1 in. long, pubescent, often leafy ; pedicels slender. 

 Flowers ^ in. diam., tetramerous, white, fragrant. /Sepals small. Petal* elliptic or 

 oblong. Disk annular or columnar. Ovary 4-celled, style short thick; ovule 1 pen- 

 dulous in each cell. Berry globose, ^ in. diam., 1-4-seeded, very acid. . 



? 2. Zi. pubescens, Wall. Cat. 6365 (Limonia?); spinous, leaflets 

 3-5-pair opposite broadly rhomboid or ovate obtuse quite entire or sinuate- 

 crenate midrib beneath and winged costa pubescent. 



BJRMA ; at Taong-dong, Wallich. 



