224 FLORA OF MADRAS. [ColuMna. 



cymes. Calyx-tube hemispheric, lobes 5, keeled within. Petals 

 5, inserted below the disk, clawed, cucullate. Dislc fleshy, 5- 

 angled, filling the calyx-tube. Stamens 5, enclosed within the 

 petals ; filaments filiform. Ovary subglobose, sunk in the disk, 

 3-celled ; style 3-cleft ; stigmas obtuse, papillose. Fruit a 3-celled 

 subglobose drupe, surrounded below the middle by the remains 

 of the calyx-tube, later on capsular, loculicidally dehiscing, cells 

 1-seeded, Seeds obovoid compressed ; testa coriaceous ; albumen 

 thin ; cotyledons suborbicular, cordate, flattened. 



Glabrous shrub ; leaves ovate, obtusely acuminate at apex^ rounded 

 or cordate at base, l'5-3 in. long, 1-2 in. broad ; cymes slender 



1. asiatica. 



Large shrub with young branches, young leaves and inflorescence 

 golden -pubescent ; leaves oblong-lanceolate, acuminate at apex, 

 rounded at base, 3-6 in. long, l'5-2'5 in. broad ; cymes rather stout 



2. travancorica. 



1. COLTJBRINA ASIATICA, Brongn. ; F. B. 1. i. 642 ; W. & A. 

 166 ; Wt. 111. i. t. 74. 



Coimbatore District (Beddome), often planted, especially 

 near the coast. 



2. COLTJBRINA TBAVANCORICA, Bedd. Ic. 1. 188 ; F. B. I. i. 643. 



E. Coast, in Travancore (Wight, Bedd., Bourdillon). 



7. Gouania, Linn. 



Unarmed shrubs, climbing by means of tendrils on the 

 branchlets and at the base of the inflorescence. Leaves alternate, 

 penninerved, petiolate ; stipules lanceolate, deciduous. Flowers 

 small, polygamous, in fascicles in interrupted axillary or terminal 

 spikes or racemes. Calyx-tiibe short, obconic; lobes 5. Petals 5, 

 inserted below the margin of the disk, cucullate. Disk flat or 

 concave, filling the calyx-tube, with 5 rounded or horn-like lobes 

 alternate with the stamens. Stamens 5, enclosed within the 

 petals. Ovary sunk in the disk, 3-celled ; style 3-cleft ; stigmas 

 minute, papillose; ovules solitary. Fruit coriaceous, inferior, 

 tipped by the persistent calyx-lobes, of 3 separable indehiscent 

 dry naericarps, attached to a central filiform receptacle, and pro- 

 duced on each side in rounded wings. Seeds plano-convex, 

 obovate ; testa hard, shining ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons ovate, 

 cordate at base, retuse at apex ; radicle small. 



