—— Todes.) OLACINE. 4. 325 
lobes; disk fleshy, lining the base of perianth-tube. Ovary free, 
oblong, conical, 1-locular ; stigma sessile, 4-lobed; ovule solitary. 
Fruit a glabrous drupe with crustaceous stone. Seed pendulous ; 
albumen fleshy ; embryo small, axial, cotyledons 3. 
326, Lerpionurus syLvestris Bl. L. oblongifolius F. B. i 
i. 58. 
- 083. 
Chittagong. 
A small tree. 
172. Cansjera A. Juss. 
Shrubs, climbing, occasionally armed; leaves alternate, shortly 
petioled, 1-nerved; stipules 0. Flowers monochlamydeous, herma- 
phrodite, in dense bracted axillary spikes. Perianth regular, 
4-5-partite, marcescent; lobes valvate. Stamens usually 4 fertile, 
occasionally 5, opposit perianth-lobes and alternate with 4-5 hypo- 
gynous staminodes or disk-glands; filaments free or adnate at the 
base to the thickened disk. Ovary superior, ovoid-conical, 1-locular ; 
style cylindric, stigma capitate 4-lobed; ovule solitary, pendulous. 
Prwit a drupe, its base surrounded by the marcescent perianth ; 
putamen bony. Seed solitary, inverted, subglobose; albumen 
fleshy ; embryo apical, cotyledons . 
827. CansseraA RuEeper Gmel.; F. B. I. i. 582. C. scandens 
F. 1, i. 441 
Behar, Monghyr Hills. 
A climbing s 
173. Iodes Bl. 
Shrubs, usually climbing; leaves opposite or subalternate, 
petioled, simple, 1-nerved; stipules 0. Flowers dicecious, - 
chlamydeous,in axillary or extra-axillary cymes, the lower pedune es 
often sterile and metamorphosed into tendrils. ¢ Calyx minute, 
cupshaped, 5-toothed. Petals connate, 3-5-partite ; lobes valyate. 
Stamens hypogynous, 3-5, opposite the corolla-lobes; anthers 
2-celled, intror 
icle much dilated. Fruit a drupe, surrounded at the base by 
the persistent, unaltered calyx; stone crustaceous, 
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ned pendulous ; testa thin; albumen fleshy; embryo with leafy 
cotyledons, 
