Acronychia.-] RUT AC EAR. 151 



A very variable plant with three varieties, and occasional interme- 

 diates : 



A stout climbing shrub, very prickly ; leaflets abruptly obtusely 

 acuminate at apex, 2-4 in. long and 1-1-5 in. broad; flowers rather 



large ; fruit large, fleshy, hardly lobed 1. floribunda, 



A slender very prickly climbing shrub ; leaflets narrow, obtusely acute, 

 1-2 in. long, *5-' 75 in. broad ; flowers small, usually in elongate 



panicles; fruit small, much lobed 2. firacilis. 



An erect bush, unarmed or only slightly prickly ; leaflets obtuse at 

 apex, 1-1 '5 in. long, *5-'75 in. broad; flowers small, in short dense 

 panicles; fruit as in 2 3. obtusifolia. 



Variety 1 is found in forests in almost all Districts, and is 

 conspicuous by the corky protuberances bearing spines on the 

 stems ; variety 2 occurs in dry Districts, chiefly in the Circars and 

 Carnatic ; variety 3 is only found in the Nilgiris at about 6,000 ft. 



5. Yepris, Comm. 



Trees or shrubs, unarmed. Leaves alternate, 1-3-foliolate, the 

 leaflets usually petiolulate, gland-dotted. Flowers small, in 

 terminal or axillary panicles. Calyx small, saucer-shaped, 2- or 

 more-lobed. Petals 2-4, lanceolate or ovate, more or less imbri- 

 cate. Stamens in & flowers twice or three times as many as the 

 petals, inserted under the disk, filaments slender, anthers ovate ; 

 in ? flowers reduced to minute staminodes with small rudimentary 

 anthers. Ovary in 3 flowers small, ovoid, 2 -cleft at apex : in 

 ? flowers globose, 2-4-celled ; styles ; stigma capitate ; ovules 

 in each cell 2, collateral. Fruit globose or oblong, 2-4-celled, 

 fleshy. Seeds one in each cell, flattened, oblong, testa crustaceous ; 

 albumen fleshy ; embryo flat, cotyledons thick, ovate; radicle stout. 



VEPRIS BILOCULARIS, Engl. Toddalia biloctilaris^V. & A. 149; 



F. B. I. i. 497 ; Bedd. Ic. t. 167. 



A large handsome evergreen tree with trifoliolate leaflets up to 

 9 in. long and about 3 in. broad, with many close parallel 

 nerves and an intramarginal nerve ; petals 3 ; stamens 6 ; 

 fruit oblong, *5 in. long, 2-celled. 



Forests of Malabar, the Anamalais and Travancore, up to 

 4,000 ft. 



6. Acronychia, Forst. 



Trees. Leaves opposite or alternate, 1- rarely 3-foliolate ; 

 leaflets entire, pellucid-punctate. Flowers polygamous, in axil- 



