214 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Salacia. 



2. Salacia, Linn. 



Small trees or climbing or sarmentose shrubs. Leaves opposite, 

 rarely alternate, exstipulate. Flowers small, axillary or extra- 

 axillary, in fascicles or cymes. Calyx small, 5-lobed. Petals 5, 

 imbricate. Disk thick, broad. Stamens 3, inserted on the inner 

 margin of the disk; filaments at length recurved, usually 

 broadened at base. Ovary conical, more or less sunk in the 

 disk, 3-celled ; style very short ; stigma capitate or 3-lobed ; 

 ovules 2-8 in each cell in 1-2 series. Fruit an indehiscent 

 1-3-celled berry ; rind usually coriaceous. Seeds large, angular ; 

 testa thick; albumen 0; cotyledons thick, usually conf erruminate ; 

 radicle inferior. 



Flowers fascicled on axillary tubercles ; ovary enclosed in the disk ; 

 anther-cells dehiscing transversely: 

 Calyx-lobes not fringed : 



Petals clawed at the base; pedicels '15-'2 in. long; branchlets 

 more or less angled ; leaves elliptic-lanceolate, crenate- serrate, 



up to 3 in. long; fruit small 1. prinoides. 



Petals broad at the base ; branchlets more or less prominently 

 lenticellate, terete : 



Pedicels '25 in. long; petals '15 in. long, thick; calyx-lobes 

 short, obtuse; leaves coriaceous, ovate- or obovate-oblong, 

 reticulate, 2*5 to 3'5 in. long by 1*5-2 in. broad ; fruit large, 



tuberculate 2. reticulata. 



Pedicels '5 in. long; petals '1 in. long, with white margins; 

 calyx-lobes short, ovate ; leaves chartaceous, oblong, 4-6 in. 



long by 1-5-2 in. broad 3. malabarica. 



Calyx-lobes fringed ; pedicels very short ; branchlets lenticellate ; 

 leaves coriaceous : 



Leaves elliptic-oblong or -ovate, 2-3 in. long by T5 in. broad, 

 main nerves irregular, oblique ; calyx-lobes shortly fringed ; fruit 



large, smooth 4. macrosperma. 



Leaves elliptic oblong, 5-6 in. long by 2-2'5 in. broad, main 

 nerves regular, nearly horizontal; calyx-lobes long and promi- 

 nently fringed 5. Beddomei. 



Flowers in axillary pedunculate heads or branching cymes ; anther- 

 cells dehiscing longitudinally : 



Peduncles very short ; ovary elongate, conical, much exsert from 

 the disk; leaves elliptic-oblong or -oblanceolate, yellowish when 

 dry ; calyx- lobes entire ; fruit large, tuberculate 6. oblonga. 



