Colubrina.'] RHAMNACEAE. 223 



SCIJTIA MYRTINA, Kurz. 8. inclica, Brongn. ; F. B. I. i. 640; 



W. & A. 165 ; Wt. 111. i. t, 73. S. Rheediana, Wt. Ic. t. 1071. 

 N. Circars, Deccan and Carnatic, in dry deciduous and scrub 

 forest ; W. Ghats, on eastern slopes and up to 6,000 ft. 

 A straggling thorny shrub with small orbicular or obovate 

 coriaceous shining leaves. The branches are cut for making 

 dry hedges. Vern. Tel. Gariki ; Tarn. Tuvadi. 



5. Sageretia, Brongn. 



Straggling or climbing shrubs, usually armed with thorns 

 which are frequently recurved, branches opposite or subopposite. 

 Leaves subopposite, penninerved ; stipules minute, deciduous. 

 Flowers hermaphrodite, very small, sessile in fascicles along ter- 

 minal leafy or leafless thyrsoid branches. Calyx-tube hemi- 

 spheric ; lobes 5, acute, keeled within. Petals 5, clawed, cucullate. 

 Stamens 5, about equalling the petals. Disk cupshaped, filling 

 the calyx-tube, margin free, 5-lobed. Ovary free, enclosed by the 

 disk, 3-celled ; style short, 3-grooved ; stigmas 3, capitate. Fruit 

 globose, 3-celled and -seeded, indehiscent ; pyrenes 3, flattened. 

 Seeds orbicular ; testa crustaceous ; albumen thin ; cotyledons 

 flat, leafy, obcordate. 



Thorns few, straight, short ; leaves ovate-lanceolate, gradually shortly 

 acuminate, 2-4 in. long, 1-1*5 in. broad, main nerves aboiit 6 pairs ; 



thyrse-braiiches slender 1. parviflora. 



Thorns frequent, recurved,, long; leaves elliptic-oblong, abruptly 

 acuminate, 3-6 in. long, l'5-2'5 in. broad, main nerves 8-10 pairs ; 

 thyrse -branches rather stout 2. Jiamosa. 



1. SAGERETIA PARVIFLORA, G. Don. S. oppositifolia, Brongn. ; 

 F. B. I. i. 641 in part. Berchemia parviflora, W. & A. 163. 

 N. Circars, Mahendragiri Hill in Gairjam, 4,500 ft., Reka- 

 palle in Godavari ; Deccan, on Hills, as on Horsleykonda, 

 4,500 ft., in Cuddapah, also in Mysore and Coimbatore; 

 W. Ghats, K and E. slopes of Nilgiris up to 6,000 ft. 



'2. SAGERETIA HAMOSA, Brougn. ; F. B. I. i. 641. 



W. Ghats, in the Nilgiri and Pulney Hills at 6,000-7,000 ft. 



6. Colubrina, L. C. Rich. 



Erect or sarmentose shrubs, unarmed. Leaves alternate, petio- 

 iate; stipules small, deciduous. Flowers in very short axillary 



