158 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Paramignya. 



15. Paramignya, Wight. 



Shrubs, erect or climbing, unarmed or with axillary spines. 

 Leaves 1-foliolate, entire, subcoriaceous. Flowers rather large, 

 axillary, solitary or fascicled. Calyx cupular or small and 4-5- 

 lobed. Petals 4-5, free, imbricate or rarely valvate. Disk thick, 

 columnar. Stamens 8-10, free ; filaments linear, equal or sub- 

 equal, inserted round the disk, usually hairy ; anthers linear- 

 oblong. Ovary 3-5-celled ; style elongate, articulate, deciduous ; 

 stigma capitate ; ovules in each cell 1 or 2 obliquely superposed. 

 Fruit an ovoid or subglobose berry, often contracted at base ; 

 1 5-seeded ; rind thick. Seeds large, oblong, compressed ; testa 

 membranous ; cotyledons fleshy, equal. 



Leaflets ovate-oblong or elliptic, obtuse or acute at apex, rounded at 

 base, 2-5 in. long, 1-2 in. broad ; calyx 5-lobed, pubescent ; pedicels 

 rather stout : 



Calyx cupular with broad lobes; petals thick, very imbricate, '4--5 in. 



long 1 . monophylla . 



Calyx small with acute lobes ; petals thin, induplicate- valvate, *3 in. 



long 2. Griffithii. 



Leaflets ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate at apex, rounded at base, 

 2-3 in. long, 1-1*5 in. broad; calyx with 4 minute teeth, glabrous; 

 pedicels long slender 3. armata. 



1. PARAMIGNYA MONOPHYLLA, Wt. 111. i. 109, t. 42; F. B. I. i. 

 510. 



N. Circars, Hills of Ganjam, Kumpa Hills up to 3,000 ft. 

 or more ; W. Ghats from S. Canara to Tinnevelly up to 

 6,000 ft., thorny climber. 



2. PARAMIGNYA GRIFFITHII, Hook. f. ; F. B. I. i. 510. 



E. Ghats in Madgol Hills of Vizagapatam 4,000 ft. (A. W, 

 Lushington), thorny climber. 



3. PARAMIGNYA ARMATA, Oliv. ; F. B. I. i. 511 ; Bedd. Ic. t. 275. 



W. Ghats in Wynaad, Atapadi Hills of Malabar, Hills of 

 Tinnevelly, thorny climber. 



16. Atalantia, Correa. 



Evergreen shrubs or trees, armed or unarmed. Leaves alternate, 

 1-foliolate ; leaflet coriaceous, entire or crenulate ; stipule-like scales 

 often present, representing undeveloped leaf-buds. Flowers in 

 axillary, rarely terminal, fascicles racemes or panicles, rarely 



