510 xxxin. RUTACE^:. (J. D. Hooker.) 



calyx in flower or after it irregularly split to the base, margin erose 

 scarious, filaments monadelphous, ovary usually 4-celled, ovules 1 or 2. 

 W. & A. Prodr. 91 ; Wujht III. i. 108; Wall. Cat. 6353; Oliv. in Joimt. 

 Linn. Soc. v. Siqqd. ii. 24 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Flor. 28 ; Bald. /'/'. N////'. 

 Anal. Gen. xlvi. t. 7, f. 5. A. floribunda, Wight. Ic.i. 1611. A. platystigtna. 



iv. t. 12 ; Burm. Fl. Zeyl. t. 65, i. 



SILHET, at the foot of the Khasia Mts., E.f. & T. ; throughout the WESTERN 

 PKNINSULA, from the Concan and Coroinandel southwards; CEYLON, not uncommon 

 towards the N. of the Island. 



A large glabrous shrub or small tree, with rigid flexuous woody branches (the tips 

 often pubescent), and usually strong axillary single spines. Lc>ijl<'t \-:\ in., ovate- 

 oblong or elliptic, obtuse, notched or 2-lobed at the tip, coriaceous, bright green, quite 

 entire; petiole very short, often pubescent, stipular scales subulate. Flowers - in. 

 diam., always fascicled in the leaf-axils, pube>cent ; pedicels \-\ in., minutely brac- 

 teolate ; buds subglobose or pyriform. CkHyx rupturing irregularly. /\ ////.><. 

 oblong, obtuse. Filaments 8, rarely 5-7, connate into an irregularly cleft, tube, which 

 is antheriferoiis at the top; anthers broadly < void. Ornri/ sessile on a small di-k, 

 3-5-celled. 1>< .//// as largo as a nutmeg, globnse, like a lime, usually 4-celled ; cells 

 1 -seeded. Roxburgh describes the flowers, as shortly racemose, and calyx as 4-5-partcd, 

 which does not agree with our specimens i'r.uii the Peninsula. 



YAK. macrophyUa, () iiv. I.e.; Laws larger and broader, flowers racemose, pedicels 

 stoat compressed ;il>wers not seen). Tcnasserim, Jlilfer. 

 ' -ia 



VAK. i-nrixsti'nli .--. Oliv. I.e. : lea\ -ian.-eolate. pedicels longer hairy. 



A. carissoidcs, \\\dl. Cut. 0354. Segaen on the Irrawaddy, ll'al/ick. 



ft Calyx regularly f>r .sv//y/> f ///////-/// 4-.WoW. 



2. A. racemosa, II'. <( A. /',-</,-. 91; leaflet oblong elliptic or ovate 

 oblong, lip obtuse or 2-lobed, flowers racetued rarely fascicled, racemes 

 pubescent or glabrous, calyx 4-lobed, lobes acute or obtuse, filaments more 

 or less connate, ovary 2-3-celled, ovules -2 collateral. Ofir. in ,/<>/////. J/I//H. 

 /Sbc. v. >S'/////y/. ii. 24 ; J>> d<l. Fin,-. N////-. A n<tl. <> < u. xlvi. A. cajiitcllata, L'nnll. 

 in Wall Cut. (;:;.V>. Sderostylis racemosa, parvifolia .ami ovalitulia, }\ r i<ilit 

 Til. i. 10'.). S. atalantioides, M'/y//. Ic. 71. Laxnpeti&(iwtqf If. ( J. Prodr.} 

 racemosa, Ifm-m. Xt/itnj>s. fasc. i. 42^ Limonia 1 missionis. Wall. Cot. K358E. 



\Vi>n;i:.\ J'KM.N.-ri.A ; iVom the Concan to Travancor ; CEYLON, at Galagame, 

 Gardner. 



A small tree, armed or unarmed, very similar to A. monopliylla, but the flowers, in- 

 stead of being long pedicell.'d in short racemes or fascicles, are shortly petlicelled on 

 racemes sometimes ;; in. long, but at others almost reduced to corymbs; the le:i\ 

 usually larger, and often broader, though i|uite small in Wight's li-ure ; the flowers are 

 of the same size, but often very crowded and the buds very globose, they are usually 

 4- but sometimes 3-5-merous, and the filamentfl are five oi - variously united; tie 

 is sessile on a small disk. The great distinction between these species is in th. 

 or less regularly 4- (3-5-) lobed calyx of this, the lobes of which are acute or obtuse. 

 Fruit globose, | in. diam. One of Wight's specimens has ovate leaves, cordate at the 

 base. Wallich's 6358 E, from Penang (G. Porter), in fruit only, with leaves cordate at 

 the base, may be this or the following, or something different from both. 



3. A. ceylanica, Oliv. in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. S"ppl. ii. 25 ; leaflet 

 obtuse notched or 2-lobed rarely obtusely acuminate, flowers very shortly 

 racemed, calyx 4-lobed, filaments free or 2 or 3 of them more or less com- 

 bined, ovary 2-celled, ovules 2 collateral. Thwaites Enum. 405; Bedd. 

 Flor. Sylvat. Anal. Gen. xlvi. Rissoa zeylanica, Am. in Act. Acad. 



