Colubrina.] XLII. RHAMNE^:. (M. A. Lawson.) 643 



3. C. travancorica, Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 188 ; young branches 

 covered with a dark rust-coloured pubescence, leaves 3-5 by 1^-1 in. 



WESTERN PENINSULA; Quilon, Wight; S. Travancor, Beddome. 



Leaves oblong shortly and suddenly acuminate, glabrous above, slightly pubescent 

 on the nerves beneath. Flowers ^ in. across. 'Pedicels puberulous. Calyx-tube with a 

 few hispid hairs, otherwise glabrous. Petals clawed, spathulate, acute. 



10. APTERON, Kurz. 



A scandent shrub. Leaves penninerved. Flowers small, fascicled, dis- 

 posed in panicled racemes. Calyx 5-fid, tube shortly obconic; lobes 

 spreading, acute. Petals 5, obovate, minute, inserted between the calyx- 

 lobes. Stamens 5, a little longer than the petals, filaments filiform. Disk 

 flat, free. Ovary subglobose, immersed in the disk, 2-celled; style very 

 short, stigmas 2. Drupe ? globose, adnate to the calyx-tube as in Gfouania, 

 and crowned by the calyx-limb, 1-celled by arrest, 1-seeded? 



1. A. lanceolatum, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1872, ii. 301. 



TENASSERIM, Kurz. 



A lajgre scandent shortly-tomentose 'shrub. Leaves 4-5 in., lanceolate, with a long 

 somewwk obtuse point, serrate, chartaceous with a fulvous pubescence on the nerves, at 

 length glabrous, lateral nerves numerous (7-9) prominent and reaching to the margin. 

 Panicles hoary or yellowishly tomentose. Flowers small ; pedicels % in., slender or 

 subfleshy, puberulous, fascicled or sub-solitary. Calyx |-^ in. diam., puberulous. 

 Ovary pubescent ; style shortly bifid. Fruit? Kurz speaks of the immature fruit as 

 being globose, and the size of a peppercorn. I have seen no specimen. 



11. GOUANIA, Linn. 



Unarmed climbing shrubs. Leaves alternate. Flmoers polygamous, in 

 axillary or terminal spikes ; rachis often cirrhose. Calyx superior, 5-fid ; 

 tube short, obconic. Petals 5, inserted below the margin of the disk, 

 hooded. -Stamens 5, enfolded by the petals. Disk filling the calyx-tube, 

 5-angled or stellate. Ovary sunk in the disk, 3-celled ; style 3-cleft. 

 Fruit inferior, coriaceous, crowned by the persistent limb of the calyx, 

 3-winged. DISTRIB. Species 30, chiefly American, a few are African and 

 Asiatic, and one belongs to the Pacific Islands. 



1. Gr. microcarpa, DC. Prodr. ii. 40 ; flowers sessile densely pubescent, 

 disk glabrous 5-lobed, style-arms glabrous minute. W. & A. Prodr. 167; 

 Wall. Cat. 4271 ; Thwaites Enum. 75. G. integrifolia, Kurz in Journ. As. 

 Soc. Beng. 1871, pt. ii. 49. G. tilisefolia, Heyne in Wall. Cat. 4271. 



WESTERN PENINSULA ; from the Concan southwards. PEGU, Kurz. MALACCA, 

 Griffith, &c. CEYLON, ascending to 2000 ft. DISTRIB. Java. 



Young branches and racemes pubescent. Leaves 2-3 by |-1| in., ovate or elliptic, 

 acute or acuminate, orbicular or subcordate at the base, entire or very faintly crenate- 

 serrate, glabrous. Calyx densely hairy outside, glabrous within. Petals obovate-oblong, 

 very concave, margins involute. Disklobes faintly emarginate, or truncate. Fruit 

 shortly winged, pubescent, at length glabrous. 



2. G-. leptostachya, DC. Prodr. ii. 40 ; flowers shortly pedicelled 

 glabrous, disk glabrous 5-lobed, lobes oblong faintly emarginate, style- 

 arms elongate. Jtoxb. Cor. PI. i. t. 95 (not Lamk.} ; Wall. Cat. 4270; 

 W. & A. Prodr. 106 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 50. 



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