212 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Elaeodendron. 



A graceful tree with a grey bark and light brown close- 

 grained wood, useful for cabinet work. Yern. Hind. 

 Jamrasi ; Tel. Nirija ; Tarn. Karuvali. 



2. ELAEODENDRON PANICULATUM, "W. & A. 157. E. glaucum, 

 Pers. F. B. I. i. 623 in part. 



W, Ghats, N. slopes of Nilgiri and Anamalai Hills up to 

 3,000 ft. 

 A large tree. 



Family XLY. HIPPOCRATEACEAE. 



Small trees or erect or climbing shrubs. Leaves opposite or 

 alternate, simple, somewhat coriaceous. Flowers usually very 

 small, in axillary dichotomous cymes. Calyx 5-lobed, lobes 

 imbricate. Petals 5, inserted under the disk, imbricate or 

 valvate. Disk fleshy, cupshaped, sometimes ringed at the base. 

 Stamens 3, inserted on or within the top of the disk, at first 

 erect, then recurved. Ovary more or less sunk in the disk, 

 3 -celled ; style 1 ; stigmas 1-3 ; ovules 2 or more in each cell, on an 

 axile placenta. Fruit of samaroid carpels or fleshy and 1-3-celled. 

 Seeds usually many, often angular, sometimes winged ; albumen 

 ; embryo straight ; cotyledons fleshy. 



Fruit samaroid, flattened, dehiscent, the seeds winged below 



1. Hippocratea. 

 Fruit globose, indehiscent, seeds not winged 2. Salacia. 



1. Hippocratea, Linn. 



Climbing shrubs. Leaves opposite, petioled, more or less 

 crenate - serrate ; stipules small, caducous. Flowers in axillary, 

 rarely terminal, cymes or panicles, white or greenish. Calyx 

 small, 5-lobed. Petals 5, spreading, imbricate or valvate. Dish 

 cylindric or cuplike. Stamens 3, at first erect, then recurved, 

 inserted on or within the top of the disk; filaments dilated at 

 base ; anthers 2-celled, cells opening transversely. Ovary 3-celled, 

 sunk in the disk ; style short ; stigmas 1-3 ; ovules 2-seriate, 2-10 in 

 each cell, on the inner angle. Fruit of three flattened carpels, 

 connate below, each 2-valved or indehiscent. Seeds compressed, 

 usually winged below; albumen 0; embryo with fleshy connate 

 cotyledons ; radicle inferior. 



