Salacia.'] RHAMNACEAE. 215 



Peduncles elongate, slender ; cymes up to 5 in. long, often much 

 branched, many-flowered ; ovary rounded, partly exsert from the 

 disk ; calyx-lobes minutely ciliate ; petals usually with white 

 margins ; leaves ovate or lanceolate, obtusely aciiminate, 2-4 in. 

 long by 1-2 in. broad, greyish when dry ; branchlets rough 



1. SALACIA PRINOIDES, DC. ; F. B. I. i. 626; W. & A. 105. 



Hills of the N". Circars in Gaiijam and Vizagapatam. 

 A straggling shrub. 



2. SALACIA RETICULATA, Wt. 111. i. 134 ; F. B. I. i. 627. 



W. Coast, at Quilon in Travancore. 



A climbing shrub with large tuberculate fruit. 



3. SALACIA MALABARICA, Gamble in Kew Bull. 1916, 133. 



W. Coast, S. Canara to Travancore, in the plains, in moist 



forest. 



A large climber. 



4. SALACIA MACROSPERMA, Wt. Ic. t. 962 ; F. B. I. i. 628. 



W. Ghats, in Wynaad and W. Mlgiris, up to 5,000 ft. 

 A rambling shrub. 



5. SALACIA BEDDOMEI, Gamble in Kew Bull. 1916, 133. 



W. Ghats, in the Anamalais (Beddome). 



6. SALACIA OBLONGA, Wall. ; F. B. I. i. 628 ; W. & A. 106 ; 



Wt. 111. t. 47B, Tc. t. 97. 



W. Ghats, from the Nilgiris to Timievelly, E. slopes, up to 

 3000 ft. 

 A climbing shrub or small tree. 



7. SALACIA FRUTICOSA, Lawson; F. B. I. i. 628. 



W. Ghats, in almost all Districts from S. Canara to 

 Travancore and up to 4,000 ft., in evergreen forest. 

 A climbing shrub. 



Family XLYI. RHAMNACEAE. 



Trees or shrubs, erect or climbing ; branches sometimes thorny, 

 sometimes bearing tendrils. Leaves simple, alternate subopposite 

 or opposite, usually coriaceous, often 3-5-ribbed ; stipules small 

 or 0, sometimes changed into prickles. Flowers hermaphrodite 

 or polygamous, small, greenish, in lax or dense^ axillary cymes, 

 solitary or disposed in spikes or panicles. Calyx 4-5-lobed, the 

 lobes triangular, valvate, usually keeled within. Petals 4-5 



