154 FLOP A OF MADRAS. [Micromelnm. 



and longer. Ovary seated on the disk, 5-, rarely 2-6-celled ; style 

 thick, articulate, deciduous ; stigma capitate or obtuse ; ovules 2 

 in each cell, superposed. Fruit a 1-2-seeded berry, septa spirally 

 twisted. Seeds oblong ; testa membranous ; albumen ; cotyledons 

 leafy, much crumpled ; radicle long. 



MICROMELUM PUBESCENS, Blume ; F. B. I. i. 501. 



N. Circars, Hills of Ganjam and Vizagapatam (Beddome, 



Barber). 



A small tree with pinnate leaves up to 18 in. long and distant 



pinnules very unequal at base. Wood yellowish-white, hard 



and close-grained. 



10. Clausena, Burm. 



Unarmed shrubs or trees. Leaves imparipinnate ; leaflets 

 alternate, glandular-dotted, usually crenate. Flowers small, in 

 terminal or axillary cymes panicles or compound racemes. 

 Calyx 4-5-lobed. Petals 4-5, free, membranous, imbricate, 

 gland-dotted. Disk elongated. Stamens 8-10, inserted round 

 the disk ; filaments dilated below the tip, alternately longer and 

 shorter ; anthers rather large, usually glandular on the back. 

 Ovary 4-5- (rarely 2-3-) celled ; style thick, articulate, deciduous ; 

 stigma obtuse, entire or lobed ; ovules 2 in each cell, collateral 

 or superposed. Fruit an oblong or globose berry, 2-5-celled, 

 pericarp very glandular. Seeds oblong ; testa membranous ; 

 albumen ; cotyledons equal, plano-convex ; embryo minute. 



Ovary glabrous : 



Flowers usually 5-merous ; ovary with conspicuous glandular 

 papillae : 



Inflorescence terminal, paniculate with corymbose branches up to 

 5 in. long ; leaflets membranous, rhomboid, oblique, nearly black 

 when dry, with raised glands, reticulation obscure ; ovules collateral 



1. indica. 



Inflorescence subterminal or axillary in thyrsoid panicles up to 8 in. 

 long ; leaflets chartaceous, lanceolate to obovate, yellowish when dry 

 with immersed glands, reticulation conspicuous ; margins often 



crenate ; ovules superposed 2. heptaphylla. 



Flowers 4-merous ; infloresence axillary, in slender compound racemes 

 up to 4 in. long ; leaflets membranous, ovate-lanceolate, oblique, 

 greenish when dry and profusely glandular-dotted ; ovary with obscure 

 glands ; ovules superposed 3. Willdenovii, 



