668 BENGAL PLANTS. [Melodinus. 
cells rounded at the base. Disk 0. Carpels 2, connate in 
acute, 2-celled ovary ; ovules numerous in each cell; style ee 
stigma thick, 2-fid. Fruit a globose berry, with hard or leathery 
pericarp. Seeds numerous, embedded in pulp; albumen fleshy ; 
cotyledons thin 
1202. Mecoorirds MonogyNnus Roxb. ; F.1.ii. 56; F. B. I. iii. 629 ; 
K. 435. 
N. Bengal; Cooch Behar. 
A very large climber. Vernac. Sandul kon. 
543. Carissa Linn. 
anched, usually erect, spiny shrubs; leaves small, 
coriacec” Beene Flowers in terminal and axillary, peduncled, 
hotomous cymes i 
3-¢ es. Sepals connate in a sek calyx, with or 
without glands inside; lobes sree Petals 5, connate in a 
ere with cylindric tube; throat ed; takes overlapping to 
right. Stamens 5, adnate to Ae of tube, included; anthers 
fahebiane 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 an ellipsoid or globose berry, 2-celled or, by cea 
 I-celled. Seeds usually 2, ere attached to the septum 
albumen fleshy ; cotyledons ovate 
‘Leaves es shining above :— 
Tips of leaves always rounded or obtuse; leaves always glabrous on 
both surfaces ; drupe ellipsoid, -5-1 in. long; spines stoutish ; a large 
shrub or small tree Carandas 
subglobose, *25 in. long ; spines slender; small shrubs :— 
are oss glabrous or finely puberulous beneath, as are the branches 
an 
Leaves heist branches and cymes pubescent 
spinarum var. hirsuta. 
Leaves dull ae glabrous on both surfaces; drupe etn S16, 
ong; a small shru 
sp inarum 
aucinervia 
1203. segpee IE Linn.; F. I. i. 687; F. B. I. iii. 680; 
Calldvated in most of the provinces, 
