Cans/era.] OPILIACEAE. 193 



lets and lanceolate leaves up to 4 in. long ; racemes slender, up 

 to 1*5 in. long ; drupe oblong, glaucous-green. 

 N. Circars, Deccan and Carnatic, in hilly country especially ; 

 W. Ghats, on the lower slopes of the Anamalais and Pulneys, 

 eastern side. 



2. Can sj era, Juss. 



Climbing shrubs, sometimes armed. Leaves alternate, entire, 

 penninerved. Flowers in short axillary spikes, hermaphrodite, 

 bracteolate. Calyx very minute, 4-lobed. Corolla regular, tubular 

 or urceolate, with 4-5 usually reflexed lobes ; lobes valvate. Disk 

 of 4-5 triangular fleshy glands alternate with the corolla-lobes. 

 Stamens 4-5, opposite the corolla-lobes ; filaments slender, free, 

 between the glands of the disk ; anthers small, 2-celled. Ovary 

 superior, ovoid-conical, 1-celled ; style cylindric ; stigma capitate, 

 4-lobed ; ovule solitary, pendulous. Fruit a drupe with a 

 crustaceous putamen. Seed solitary, erect ; albumen copious, 

 fleshy ; embryo small, at the upper end, cotyledons 2-8, radicle 

 superior. 



CANSJERA EHEEDII, Gmel. ; F. B. I. i. 582 ; Wt. Ic. t. 1861. C. 

 scandens, Roxb. Cor. PI. t. 103. 



N. Circars, Deccan and Carnatic, in hilly country chiefly ; W. 



Ghats, on the eastern slopes, from Mysore to Tinnevelly. 



A climbing shrub with occasional curved thorns on the shining 



brown lenticellate branches ; branchlets greenish, pubescent ; 



leaves ovate-lanceolate, dull, thinly coriaceous, up to 3 in. 



long; spikes about 1 in. long; drupe orange-red, smooth. 



Family XLII. ICACINACEAE. 



Trees or shrubs often climbing. Leaves alternate, rarely oppo- 

 site ; usually entire but sometimes toothed ; stipules 0. Flowers 

 usually small, hermaphrodite polygamous or dioecious ; inflor- 

 escence various ; often articulate under the calyx. Calyx small, 

 5- (rarely 4- or 6-) lobed or partite, sometimes 0. Petals 5 (rarely 

 4 or 6), usually free, sometimes connate, valvate. Stamens as 

 many as the petals and usually alternate with them, sometimes 

 alternating with staminodes, in ? flowers often reduced to stami- 

 nodes. Dislt cupshaped or 5-lobed, often wanting. Ovary 1-celled 

 with 2 collateral pendulous ovules Fruit usually a drupe with 

 more or less crustaceous endocarp. Seed 1, pendulous, usually 



