123 SAMYDACE.^. [Casearia. 



Leaves usually dotted with a mixture of round and oblong transparent dots. 

 Stipules lateral. Flowers usually in axillary clusters. 



A considerable genus, chiefly American, with a few African and Asiatic species. 



1. C. glomerata, Roxb. ; BO. Prod: u. 4)9 . A glabrous shrab. Leaves 

 shortly stalked, oval-oblong, 2 to 4 in. long, entire or slightly serrate, marked 

 with pellucid dots. Flowers clustered in the axils of the leaves on pedicels 

 of about 2 lines. Calyx about 1 line long, 5 -cleft. Stamens 8, alternating 

 with as many scales. Style entii-e, wath a capitate stigma. Fruit an oblong 

 indeliiscent beny, about f in. long. 



Hongkong, IfrigJit. I have only seen a single specimen in fruit froiB the island. It 

 appears, however, to belong to this species, which has a wide range over E. India. 



2. HOMALIUM, Jacq. 



Calyx-tube turbinate or oblong, adherent at the base, lobes 4 to 12. Pe- 

 tals as many. Stamens 1 or more, opposite each petal, and 1 gland opposite 

 each sepal. Ovary 1 -celled, adherent in the lower part, conical and free in 

 the upper part, crowned with 3 to 5 styles, either free or united into one. 

 Placentas as many as styles, in the upper free part of the ovaiy, wdth 2 to 6 

 (usually 4) pendulous ovules to each placenta. Fniit slightly enlarged, the 

 calyx-lobes and petals persisting round its centre, and usually opening at the 

 top in short valves between the placentas. — Trees or shrubs. Leaves not 

 dotted. Flowers in axillaiy racemes or terminal panicles. 

 \^ A considerable tropical genus, chiefly Asiatic and African, with a few American species. 



1. H. fagifoliuxn^ Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. 35. A small tree or 

 shi-ub, the branches pubescent. Leaves shortly stalked, oval or obovate, about 

 3 in. long, toothed, thin and pubescent, or at length glabrous. Kacemes 

 usually shorter, or scarcely longer than the leaves, slender and pubescent. 

 Flowers whitish, pubescent. Calyx-tube naiTow-turbinate, A^dth 6 to 8 linear- 

 cuneate lobes about 1\ lines long. Petals nearly similar, and scarcely larger, 

 all ciliate, giving the flower a plumose appearance. St^des usually 4, gla- 

 brous. Free part of the ovaiy shortly conical. — Blackwellia fagifolia, Lindl. 

 Trans. Soc. Hort. Lond. vi. 269. B.padifloia, Lindl. Bot. Keg. t. 1308. B. 

 Loureiri, Benth. in Lond. Journ. Bot. i. 482. 



In the Happy Valley woods, Champion and others. Also in the adjacent parts of south 

 China, but not known from elseAvhere. 



Order XLIV. PASSIFLOREiE. 



Sepals united at the base into a 5-lobed or rarely 3- or 4-lobed calyx, free 

 from the ovaiy. Petals as many as the calyx-lobes, inserted at their base, 

 usually persistent vA\\i them and nearly resembling them, or rarely wanting. 

 Stamens usually as many as the sepals, rarely twice as many, inserted at the 

 base of the calyx, but often connate wiXh the ovary-stalk to near the top, and 

 appearing to be there inserted. Ovaiy usually stalked, 1 -celled, ^\A\\\ 3 or 

 rarely 5 parietal placentas, each \\\\\\ several ovides. Style divided into as 

 many branches as placentas, with terminal stigmas. Fruit indehisceiit and 

 succulent, or opening in valves between the placentas. Seeds often arillate. 



