Cariesa.] 



58. APOCTNACEiE. 



129 



coma at apex. Leaves 

 dehiscent. 



Connective 



Trees or shrubs. Seeds with 



opposite ... 



Trees or shrubs. Fruit more or less fleshy, 



Seeds without a coma, immersed in pulp 

 Anthers conniving in a cone round the stigma. 

 Fruit of two follicles. Seeds with a coma. 

 Anthers exserted. 



Filaments twisted. Carpels connate in flower 

 Filaments not twisted. 

 C//M/)^r.9.— Corolla rotate, throat naked. 



dorsally glandular 



Trees. Corolla salver-shaped, throat with fimbriate 



scales ... 

 Anthers included. 



Shrub. Corolla-lobes short. Leaves whorled 



Corolla large, lobes overlapping to the right. 

 Lofty climbers. 



Corolla bell-shaped 



Corolla salver-shaped ... 



Corolla small, lobes nearly straight. Seeds glabrous 



Corolla small, lobes sharply twisted to the left, tips not 



deflected. Seeds beaked, corna white ... 

 Corolla-lobes twisted to left, tips deflected. Follicles 



slender... 



CARISSA, L. 



HoLARHHENA. 



Parsonsia, 



Vallaris. 

 Wriohtia. 

 Neeicm. 



BeAUMON'TIA. 



Chonemorpha. 

 aoanosma. 



Anodkndho.n'. 



tchnocarpus. 



Shrubs or trees, armod with axillary spines. Leaves opposite, 

 coriaceous. Flowers in peduncled trichotomous cymes. Calyx 5- 

 partite. Corolla-tube cylindrical, lobes spreading. Stamens in- 

 cluded. Ovary 2-celled ; ovules several in each cell ; style filiform ; 

 stigma minutely 2-fid. Fruit a globose or ovoid berry. Seeds 

 usually 2, peltately attached to the septum ; albumen fleshy. 



Spines straight. 



Leaves glabrous. Borry size of cherry ... ... ... ...C. Carandas. 



Leaves small, densely and finely pubescent. Fx'uit size of a pea. 



A small tree or spreading shrub ... ^C. spinariim. 



Spines decurved. 



An erect shrub. Cymes puberulous ... ... ... ...C. mac.rnpliylla. 



A climbing shrub. Cymes quite glabrous C. suavissima. 



C. Carandas, Linn. ; A. DC. Prod. VIIL 832: Fl. Br. I. 3. 630; 

 Brandis For. Fi. 320 ; Dalz. k Gibs. Bomb. FI. U3 ; Bedd. Fl. Sjlv. loG- 

 Kdrunda, corinda, carioand, hartuncU, Vern. Tliroughout the presi- 

 dency, common in the Konkan and jS^orth Kauara. Fl. Jan.-Apl. 

 Fr. ripe May-June. 



C. spinarum, A. DO. Prod. VIII. 332 ; Fl. Br. I. 3- 631 ; C. 

 diffusa, Roxb. -, Brandis For, Fl. 321 ; Bedd, Fl. Sylv. t. 157; C- hirsuta, 

 Roth., Dalz. &Gibs. Bomh. Fl. U3. On the dry hills of the Deccan, 

 common in the Dhdrwar and Belgaura districts, on dry stony ground. 

 Fl. CS. Fr. Aug., Sept ; sometimes a prostrate shrub. Fruit 

 sweet to the taste, black when ripe. 



C. macrophylla, Wall. Cat. 1670 ; Fl. Br. T. 3. 631 ; C. lanceolaf.a, 



Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 1-13 ; C. DalzellU, Bedd. Fl. Sylv. lo6. 



Common in the evergreen fore.-^ts along the Konkan anl North Kd.nara 



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