ATER RET SAT 
668 BENGAL PLANTS. [Melodinus. - 
¢ells rounded at the base. Disk 0. Carpels 2, connate in an 
acute, 2-celled ovary ; ovules numerous in each cell; style short ; 
stigma thick, 2-fid. Fruit a globose berry, with hard or leathery 
pericarp. Seeds numerous, embedded in pulp; albumen fleshy; 
cotyledons thin. 
1202. MELopINUS MOoNOGYNUS Roxb.; F. I. ii. 56; F. B. I. iii. 629 ; 
E. D. M. 435. 
. Benasl: Cooch Behar 
A very large climber. tiedinn: Sandul kon. 
543. Carissa Linn. 
Much-branched, usually erect, spiny shrubs ; leaves small 
coriaceous, opposite. lowers in terminal and axillary, Scone 
3-chotomous cymes. Sepals connate in a 5-partite oe with o 
without ae inside; lobes acute. Petals 5, 
corolla, with cylindric tube; throat naked; lobes Srrlaee to 
the right. “Stamens 5, adnate to top of tube, included; arith 
_ lanceolate; cells rounded at the base. Disk 0. Carpels 2, con- 
nate in a 2-celled ovary; ovules in each cell 1-4, rarely more; 
style filiform; stigma spindle-shaped or columnar, minutely 2-fid. 
Fruit a ipsoid or globose berry, 2-celled or, by abortion, 
l-celled. Seeds usually 2, peltately attached to the septum; 
albnmen fieshy ; cotyledons ovate. 
Leaves shining above 
Tips of leave? a Rios & ounded or ite leaves always glabrous on 
both surfaces; drupe ellipsoid, ‘5-1 in. long; spines stoutish; a large 
shrub or ial tree : Carandas 
Tips of leaves almost always acute, mucronate, or apiculate, very 
rarely obtuse ; usually finely puberulous or pubescent beneath ; drupe 
subglobose, *25 in. long; spines slender; small shrubs :— 
Leaves sickest or finely puberulous beneath, as are the branches 
and cymes 
spinarum. 
Leayes beneath, branches and cymes pubescent 
spinarwm var. hirsuta. 
Leayes dull abe glabrous on both surfaces ; drupe ellipsoid, *3 in 
ong; # sma shru 
paucinervia 
1208. -Cantssa CARANDAS pay F. I. i. 687; », SH, I. tiie 630 ; 
fi 1). 
Chillivited i in most of the provinces. 
