194 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Gomphandra. 



albuminous, sometimes exalbuminous ; cotyledons various, radicle 

 superior. 



Albumen copious : 



Cotyledons small ; petals glabrous within ; erect trees or shrubs : 

 Filaments usually with short clubshaped hairs on the back ; anthers 

 short, pendulous ; ovary erect ; petals connate ...1. Gomphandra. 

 Filaments glabrous ; anthers long, bipartite at base ; ovary obliqne ; 



petals free 2. Apodytes. 



Cotyledons large, foliaceous : 



Erect trees, usually hermaphrodite ; petals villous within ; flowers 



in corymbose cymes ; cotyledons cordate 3. Mappia. 



Climbers, usually dioecious ; cotyledons orbicular or elliptic : 

 Leaves palminerved, dentate : 



Flowers subcapitate on supra-axillary peduncles ...4. Miquelia. 



Flowers in pendulous extra- axillary racemes 5. Natsiatum. 



Leaves entire or coarsely toothed, penniverved ; # flowers in 



filiform spikes, ? in capitate heads G. Pyrenacantha. 



Albumen 0; cotyledons large, fleshy, connate; climbing shrubs with 

 simple entire reticulate leaves and flowers in pendulous spikes 



7. Sarcostigma. 



1. Gomphandra, Wall. 



Small trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, entire, penninerved. 

 Flowers small, polygamo-dioecious, in axillary or lateral cymes. 

 Calyx minute, cupshaped, 4-5-lobed. Petals 4-5, more or less 

 connate into a campanulate corolla, free at apex, valvate, the 

 lobes incurved and hooked. Stamens 4-5, hypogynous, alternate 

 with the petals ; filaments thick, fleshy, often connate, usually 

 with a tuft of clubshaped hairs on the back at the apex ; anthers 

 pendulous from the interior apex of the filaments, dehiscing 

 longitudinally. Hypogynous disk thick, annular or 0. Ovary in 

 (? flowers sunk in the disk : in ? flowers oblong, 1-celled ; style 

 conic ; stigma small or discoid ; ovules 2, collateral. Fruit an 

 elongate drupe, topped with the remains of the stigma, pericarp 

 smooth, somewhat ribbed, endocarp leathery. Seed pendulous, 

 longitudinally surrounded by the raphe ; albumen fleshy, hollowed^ 

 embryo minute with very small cotyledons. 



Leaves membranous, lanceolate, acuminate, main nerves about 6, join- 

 ing in loops ; inflorescence axillary ; filament hairs conspicuous. 



1. polyniorpha. 



