188 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Dicluipetaliim. 



DICHAPETALUM GELONioiDES, Engl. CJutilletia gelonioides, 



Bedd. ; F. B. I. i. 570. 



W. Ghats from S. Canara to Anamalais and Travancore, up to 



4,000 ft. 



A small tree with elliptic or elliptic -lanceolate leaves reaching 



6 in. long by 2 in. broad and usually a transversely oblong or 



obcordate drupe with a soft grey epicarp, scarlet fleshy meso- 



carp and crustaceous endocarp, enclosing 2 seeds with fleshy 



cotyledons. 



Family XL. OLACACEAE. 



Trees or shrubs, sometimes straggling or climbing. Leaves 

 usually alternate, entire ; stipules 0. Flowers small, hermaphro- 

 dite. Calyx small, sometimes accrescent. Petals 5-6, free or 

 slightly connate at base. Stamens as many as and opposite to or 

 twice as many as the petals, sometimes with as many or twice as 

 many staminodes alternate with them. Dis~k usually embracing 

 the base of the ovary. Ovary free, 1-5-celled ; style simple ; 

 ovules solitary or 2-3 in each cell. Fruit a 1-seeded drupe ; 

 albumen copious, fleshy ; embryo minute, near the apex of the 

 albumen. 



Stamens twice as many as the petals, staminodes ; erect thorny shrubs 



or small trees 1. Ximenia. 



Stamens as many as the petals : 

 Staminodes present : 



Staminodes slender, bifid, usually twice as many as the generally 3 



stamens; straggling often thorny shrubs 2. Olax. 



Staminodes short, thick, as many as the stamens ; climbing shrubs 



with tendrils ..3. Erythropalum. 



Staminodes absent ; trees : 



Calyx adherent to the fruit ; anthers oblong, incurved, filaments 



very short 4. Strombosia. 



Calyx not adherent to the fruit ; anthers globose, very small, fila- 

 ments slender 5. Anacolosa. 



1. Ximenia, Linn. 



Shrubs or small trees with spinous branches. Leaves alternate, 

 simple, entire, shortly petioled. Flowers usually hermaphrodite, 

 rather large, racemose. Calyx small, 4-5-lobed. Petals 4-5, 

 valvate, bearded within, reflexed. Stamens twice as many as 



