582 xxxix. OLACINE^:. (Maxwell T. Masters.) [Sclioepfia. 



2. S. acuminata, Wall. Cat. 486; leaves oblong-lanceolate acute, 

 flowers \ in. 



SILHET and the KHASIA Mrs., Wattich, &c. ; MISHMI HILLS, Griffith. 



A tree. Young branches angular. Leaves 6 by l|-2 in., glabrous, very acute at the 

 apex, less so at the base ; petiole in. Pedicels \ in. J-'/>!cti1i/.,- cup-shaped, scarcely 

 lobed. Corolla 4 in., yellow, fragrant, tubular campanulate, limb 5-lobed ; lobes valvatc, 

 ovate-acute, bairy within. Stamens and ovary as in 8. fragrans. This differs from 

 ti.fragrans in its broader leaves, shorter pedicels, and much larger llowers. 



In the herbarium are specimens from (Jriflith collected in THiotan (n. 1819), which 

 are very imperfect, but which apparently belong to a third speeds of Xr/inj>ti>t, charae- 

 ifi-i/ed by short ovate or oblong-acute leaves. \\itli clo-er venation than in 8. fragrant 

 or A$'. acuiiditata. 



9. CANSJERA, Juss. 



Climbing shrubs, sometimes spiny. Leavrx alternate, shortly petioled, 

 1-nerved. /Yo</v,-x bracteate, in dense axillary spikes, inonochlamy- 

 deous, hermaphrodite. l\r'mnlh regular, 4-5-parted, lol.es valvatc. Fi-rtili- 

 M as many as the lobes of the perianth, and opposite to tliem, fila- 

 ments glabrous, free, or adnate at the base to a thickened disk ; anthers 

 small, oblong, adnate, 2-celled, dehiscing longitudinally. ,sv^ ////'// gfe i -lands 

 of disk) 4-5, liypogynons, alternate with tin- stamens, ovoid or subtrianuular, 

 fleshy. Otor^ superior, ovoid-conical, 1-celled; style cylindric, stigma capitate 

 4-lobed, lobi-s alternating with the fertile stamens : ovule solitary, pendu- 

 lous. Fruit drupaceous, surrounded at the base by the marcescent perianth : 

 stone bony. Seed solitary, erect, roundUh ; embryo in the upper part of the 

 fleshy albumen, radicle superior, cotyledons sometimes:} very long plano- 

 convex. DISTIMU. Species :>> 1, natives of Tropical Asia and Australia. 



In the description of the ovarv and seed I have followed Griffith, as mv observation! 



coincide with his. J>entham linds a true i-alyx, which others have not been aid' 



ii>>r have 1 been able to detect one. Miers sav> tli.' ovary is 4-celled at the base, but 1 



have only seen it 1-celled. as 15,'H ham describes it. .Many authors, including M 



and Mier.-, place this genus in Tlii/iiicl"i'r<r. an arrangement 1 my.-elt' picter, but in 



<letault of more certainty as to the real structure of the llower, the genus is here retained 



in (Hficinece. 



1. C. Rheedii, (,' ,,-!. S>/*t. i. i'^n ; leaves glabrous ovate or oblong- 

 lauceolate, s]ikes axillary solitary or twin. \\'<nl. ('</[. lot:',, ii; IT/V//// /<. 

 t. isfil ; Jl<'<l<l. Flor. tit//i>Kf. J /////. (,'r/t. t xxvi. ; 77<//v ///* Enum. 251 j 

 JJritn</ix. Fnr. Flor. 75. C. scandens, ttn.,-!>. Cor. PI. }(>:', ; /'/. I ml. i. 441. 

 C. malabarica, Land-. J)u-f. iii. 4:j:i. C 1 . zi/.yptiifolia, Grif. Notid. iv. 360, 

 t. ::;T, f. i. C. martabanica, Wall. Cat 7^;>;. Balvaaora peivi.-a, I!'////. Cat. 

 1042, nnt of J Ann. Olax ] sumatrana, Mi'/. Fl. Intl. tt<ii. $HJ,J,/. i. 344 

 Opiliu amentacea, Wall. Cat. 2331. Strutkiola scandens, Wall. Cat. 2331. 

 ; <; Hurt. Mul. vii. t. 2, 4. 



I'iM'KR GANGKTIC PLAIN, in forests of Oude ; WESTERN PENINSULA, from the Concan 

 and Dekkuti southwards. KASTKHX PKMXSULA, in .Martaban and Malacca. DISTRJB. 

 Indian Archipelago, Hong Kong, N. Australia. 



A climbing evergreen shrub. Branches divaricate sometimes spiny, younger ones, 

 as well as the inflorescence petioles and tube of flower, pubescent. Leaves If, '.'> by 

 q-1 !, in., coriaceous, yellowish and rugose when dry, base rounded, sometimes oblique ; 

 nerves depressed, arching, evanescent towards the apex ; petiole T V~& in. 8[>ikes about 

 1 in., dense, many-flowered. Bracts minute. Flowers yellow. Perianth T V-^ in., 

 nrceolate, limb 4-5-parted. Fruit -| in., ellipsoid or ovoid, orange-red, surmounted 

 by the remains of the style. 



