Atalantia.] RUTACEAE. 159 



solitary. Calyjc 3-5-lobed or -partite, sometimes irregularly split. 

 Petals 3-5, free or adnate to the stamens and united with them in 

 a tube, imbricate. Disk annular or cupular. Stamens 6-8 (rarely 

 15-20) inserted outside the disk ; filaments free or connate in a 

 tube, subequal or the alternate shorter; anthers short, ovate- 

 oblong or cordate (linear-oblong in A. missionis). Ovary 2-4- 

 (rarely 3-5-) celled ; style stout, articulate, deciduous ; stigma capi- 

 tate ; ovules 1 or 2 in each cell, if 2 collateral. Fruit a large 

 subglobose berry with thick rind, 1-5-celled and -seeded. Seeds 

 ovoid or oblong ; testa membranous ; albumen ; cotyledons 

 fleshy, plano-convex, sometimes unequal. 



Stamens usually combined in a tube ; leaflet emarginate : 



Calyx irregularly lobed ; flowers in umbels or corymbs ; leaflet ovate, 



obtuse, 1-3 in. long 1. monoplujlla. 



Calyx regularly lobed ; flowers in racemes ; leaflet elliptic, obtusely 

 acute, 2-4 in. long 2. rficenuwi. 



Stamens free : 



Leaves with conspicuous reticulation and prominent parallel main 

 nerves (12-14 pairs) olive-green when dry, emarginate; filaments flat, 



anthers cordate ; flowers in short cymes 3. ceylanica. 



Leaves with inconspicuous reticulation and main nerves (8-10 pairs), 

 dull greyish-brown when dry, not emarginate; filaments dilated 

 below only ; anthers linear-oblong ; flowers in racemes, 1-2 in. long. 



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1. ATALANTIA MONOPHYLLA, Correa ; F. B. I. i. 511 ; W. & A. 91. 

 A.floribunda, Wt. Ic. t. 1611. Limonia monophylla, Linn. ; 

 Roxb. Cor. PI. i. t. 82. 



N. Circars, Deccan and Carnatic in dry forests in almost 

 all Districts ; W. Coast and W. Ghats, scarce. 

 A small thorny tree with yellowish very hard close-grained 

 wood, of boxwood character. Tern. Ur. Kata narunga ; 

 Tel. Yerra munukudu ; Tarn. Katta naragam. 



2. ATALANTIA RACEMOSA, W. & A. 91 ; F. B. I. i. 512. Sclerostylis 

 parvifolia, Wt. Ic. t. 71. 



Hills of the Deccan, Nandidrug in Mysore, Horsley Konda 

 in Cuddapah, etc., up to 4,000 ft. ; W. Ghats, chiefly on 

 eastern side from Mysore to Travancore, up to 3,000 ft. 

 A small thorny tree, resembling No. 1, but with shorter 

 staminal tube and leaves often crenulate. Vern. Tarn. 

 Katta naragam. 



