190 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Olax. 



leaves ovate or lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 2-5 in. long ; flowers 

 4 in. long in racemes or short panicles under 1 in. long ; drupe up to 

 7 in. long 3. Wightiana. 



Erect unarmed undershrub ; leaves narrow, about 1-5 in. long by -25 in. 



broad ; flowers solitary, about '2 in. long ; drupe small, globose. ..4. nana. 



1. OLAX ZEYLANICA, L. ; F. B. I. i. 576 ; W. & A. 88. 



Peninsula (Wight 302). 



An erect shrub or small tree. 



2. OLAX SCANDENS, Roxb. ; Eoxb. Cor. PI. ii. t. 102 ; F. B. I. i. 

 575 ; W. & A. 89. 



N. Circars, Deccan. and Carnatic, usually in ravines and 



near streams. 



A rambling or climbing shrub of considerable size, the 



thorns on old wood. Wood yellowish-white, soft. Vern. 



Ur. Boderia ; Tel. Kurpodur ; Tarn. Kadalranchi ; Mar. 



Harduli. 



3. OLAX WIGHTIANA, Wall. ; F. B. I. i. 575 ; W. & A. 89. 



W. Ghats, in the Anamalai, Pulney and Tinnevelly Hills. 



A small tree (Bedd.) or climbing shrub with many branches, 



and usually ovate obtusely acute olive-brown leaves (when 



dry). 



Var. nigrescens, Gamble. Leaves lanceolate, acuminate, 



usually nearly black when dry, branchlets with prominent 



lenticels. 



W. Ghats in the Anamalai Hills (Barber), Sivagiri Hills 



(Wight). 



4. OLAX NANA, Wall. ; F. B. I. i. 576. 



N. Circars, at Karaka Konda, Vizagapatam (Barber). 

 A small undershrub giving herbaceous shoots from a woody 

 rootstock, and growing up yearly like those of Grewia 

 sapida and similar plants when killed down by fire or 

 other causes. 



3. Erythropalum, Blume. 



Climbing cirrhose shrubs. Leaves alternate, entire, 3 -ribbed, 

 petiolate ; tendrils axillary. Flowers small, in lax axillary cymes 

 with filiform peduncles and pedicels. Calyx adherent, 4-5-lobed. 

 Petals 5, valvate. Stamens 5, opposite to and inserted on the 

 petals ; filaments very short ; anthers incurved, 2-celled, the cells 

 opening longitudinally ; connective thick. Staminodes 5, alternate 



