Turnera.] PASSIFLORACEAE 523 



E. Ghats, Mahendragiri Hill in Ganjam at 4,500 ft., Rumpa 

 Hills of Godavari (Gamble). 



A tree with creamy-white bark and moderately hard white 

 wood. 



4. HOMALIUM TRAVANCORICUM, Bedd. Fl. 211; F. B. I ii 

 598. 



W. Ghats, hills of S. Travancore and Tinnevelly, in ever- 

 green forests at low levels. 



A medium-sized ornamental tree with greenish-white 

 flowers. 



Family LXX. TURNERACEAE. 



TURNERA ULMIFOLIA, Linn., is a West Indian plant with 

 bright yellow flowers, a common weed of roadsides and waste 

 ground, especially along the Corornandel Coast. The chief 

 varieties are var. elegans, Urb., with ovate coarsely-toothed, and 

 var. any usti folia, Willd., with lanceolate serrate leaves. The 

 former seems the most common on the W. Coast, the latter on 

 the East. 



Family LXXI. PASSIFLORACEAE. 



Shrubs or herbs, usually climbing by means of tendrils. Leaves 

 alternate, simple or lobed, frequently glandular beneath, petiole 

 often glandular ; stipules 2, deciduous or persistent, sometimes 

 ; tendrils axillary or 0. Flowers regular, hermaphrodite or 

 unisexual, axillary, solitary racemose or cymose-paniculate, often 

 showy ; bracteoles 3, minute and scattered or foliaceous and 

 forming an epicalyx, rarely 0. Calyx-tube short or long, 

 coriaceous or membranous, persistent; lobes 5, imbricate. Petals 

 0, or 5 attached to the calyx-tube, free or connate, imbricate, 

 often marcescent. Corona of one or more rows from the calyx- 

 tube, tubular or split into erect or radiating filaments, sometimes 

 0. Stamens 5, on a gynandrophore or free at the base, perigynous ; 

 anthers oblong, 2-celled, basi-fixed or versatile, introrsely 

 dehiscing. Ovary superior, on a gynophore or subsessile, 1- 

 celled with 3 parietal placentas and numerous ovules; styles 

 1 or 3 ; stigmas reniform capitate or flattened. Fruit a berry 

 or capsule. Seeds numerous, ovoid or flattened, often pitted, 

 with a fleshy aril ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons leafy ; radicle 

 short, terete. 



