Atalantia] 



XXV. RUTACE.E 



1-21 



oblong. Ovary 2-5-celled, style deciduous. Berry large, 1-5-seeded, rind 

 thick, cotyledons flesh}', plane-convex, albumen 0. Species 13, Indo-Malayan 

 region. 



A. Filaments connate into a tube. 



1. A. monophylla, Correa : Bedd. Fl. Svlv. Manual t. vii. f. 5. —Syn. A. 

 floribunda, Wight Ic. t. 1611; Limonia monophylla, Line; Roxb. Cor. 

 PI. t. 83. Vern. Run Limbu, 

 Makur Limbu, Mar. ; Kata 

 Na runga, Uriya; Katta nar- 

 agam, Tain. ; Adivi nimina, 

 Yi rra monu kudu, Tel. 



A glabrous shrub or small 

 tree, wood yellow, hard, and 

 close-grained, branches nu- 

 merous, rigid, the older armed 

 with short spines. L. 1-3 in., 

 obtuse, generally notched at 

 the tip. Fl. white, \-\ in. 

 long, in axillary corymbs, 

 pedicels slender, J-. 1 , in. long. 

 Calyx rupturing irregularly, 

 petals 4, anthers 8, el 1 i [ >t i< ■ . 

 inserted on the triangular 

 teeth of the staminal tube, 

 style long, cylindrical. Ovary 

 on a short annular disk. Fr. 

 1 in. diam., 1-seeded. 



Kanara. Western districts 

 of Mysore, Nilgiris. Hills of 



t In- norl hern I 'ircars. tin- I 'eded 

 districts ami tin- Karnatik. 

 Sriharikota. BLhasi hills, Andaman*. Burma. Fl. Oct.-Dec. Ceylon, Malay Penin- 

 sula. -1. macrophylla, Km/., is a variety with larger leaves and fruit.-. 2. A. racemosa, 

 W, el A. (Sclerostylis alalantioides, Wight Ic. t. 71). Tarn., evergreen forests of the 

 Western Ghats, from Khamlala southwards, dill'ers by short pedicels, rl. in. racemes 

 up to 8 in. long, calyx regularly 8-4-lobed, anther-cells divergent at base, di>k incon- 

 spicuous. Possibly m>t specifically distinct. 



Fig. 58. — Atalantia monophylla, Correa. >.. 



B. Filaments free. 



3. A. missionis, Oliver. — Syn. Limonia missionis, Wight [c. t. L75. 

 A small thorny glabrous tree. L. ovate, apex obtuse or rounded. Fl. 

 numerous, \ in. long, 4-B-merous, in erect panicles L-3 in. long, stamens 8 or 



10, filaments slender, quite distinct, anthers linear-oblong, ovary (-."Welled. 



narrowed into a shorl stalk. 2 collateral ovules in each cell. Fr. gloliose, 1 in. 

 diam.. seeds numerous, globose, embedded in glutinous mucilage. 



Evergreen Forests of the Western <;iiat>. from North Kanara southwards. Hills of 

 the Karnatik. PI, Dec. April. Ceylon, I. A. ceylanica, Oliver; Nilgiris, Anamalais, 



Ceylon, PI. in Bhorl race 9, calyx Hobed, ovary 2-celled. ■">. A. caudata, ECook.fil., 



Kh.i-i hills, a glabrous, unarmed shrub, branches slender. I., elliptic-lanceolate, 



caudate acuminate, tip bread. 2-lohed. Fl. .[ .', in. diam.. white, fragrant, in short 



slender racemes. 



16. PARAMIGNYA, Wight ; PI. lint. [ml. i. 509. 



Erect or climbing evergreen shrubs, often with axillary spines. I.. 

 1-foliolate, quite entire. Fl. axillary. Solitary or fascicled. Petals 1—6. 



Stamens K-H>, inserted at tie- base . f a columnar disk (gynophore . filaments 



