aatacia] XXXIV. CELASTRACE.E L67 



Heyne. Western Ghats from South Kanara southwards. Climbing. L. entire, long- 

 acuminate, blade 3-4. petiole J-i in. Fl. J in. Ovary half enclosed in. the disk, anther 

 cells oblique. 15. S. floribunda, Wight (S. longifolia, Kurz F. Fl. i. 258). Assam. 

 Khasi hills, Mergui. Branchlets frequently circinate at the has.'. L. elliptic-oblong, 

 acuminate, serrate, blade 3-6, petiole J-J in. Fl. J in. across, cymes as long as or 

 longer than petiole, peduncles j-1 in., disk with a free lower margin, slightly raised, 

 stigma sessile. Fr. 1 in. diam. 16. S. Grifflthii, Lawson, habitat unknown. Cymes 

 dichotomous, lax, 2 in. across, on long peduncles. Fl. j in., anthers sessile on the disk 

 which nearly envelopes the ovary, style long. 



Obdee XXXV. RHAMNACEJE. Gen. PL i. 371. 

 i Rhamnece.) 



Trees or shrubs, not rarely climbing, often armed with spinescent branches 

 or stipular spines. L. simple, alternate or opposite. Fl. small, green or 

 yellow, often unisexual. Inflorescence generally cymose. Calyx 4-5 cleft, 

 lobes triangular, valvate in bud. Petals inserted at the mout.h of calyx- 

 tube, or on the edge of the disk. Stamens opposite the petals and often 

 enclosed by them. Disk lining or filling the calyx-tube. Ovary free, or more 

 or less adhering to calyx-tube, 2- or 3-, rarely 4-celled, 1 erect ovule in each 

 cell. Seeds 1-3 



Struct ore of w 1. even in the climbing species, normal as far as known. 



A. Fr. dry. winged, 1-seeded, indi'liiscnt . . . .1. Ventilago. 



B. Fr. a berry, sec. nerves numerous, parallel . . .2. Berchemia. 



i. Fr. a drujie, with a 1-3-celled ston, ■.:::, liasal nerves . ::. Zizvphus. 



D. Fr. a drupe with 2 I. mostly 3, distinct kernels 



(pyrenes), supported by the persistent but not 



enlarged calyx t ube. 



[i. mostly alternate, disk thin, lining calyx tube . 1. Rhamnus. 



D. mostly opposite, disk fleshy, filling calyx tube . ■">. Sageketia. 



E. Fr. Lndehiscent, nearly dry, 2-4-celled, •_' I-- led. 



Armed. D. coriaceous, often opposite . . . ti. Scutia. 



Unarmed. 1.. membra -. alternate, ramifioat ions 



of inflorescence fleshy in fruit Hovknia (p. 171. 



F. Fr. dehiscent, pericarp generally coriai us. 



Fr. superior, base supported by the persistent calyx 



tithe 7. I ol.l llltlNA. 



Fr. Hat. lower part enclosed in persistent calyx tube. Smythi \ (p. 17"' 



Fr. inferior, crow I by t lie persistent calyx limb. 



Fr. 3-winged or 8-angled. Fl. n mose. . . 8. Gouania. 



Fr. obovoid-globose, not winged. Fl. umbellate . Helinds (p. 175). 



1. VENTILAGO, Gaertn.; Fl. Brit. 1ml. i. 630. 



Shrubs or trees, unarmed, generally climbing. L. alternate. PI. small, 

 pentamerous, bisexual, fasciculate, fascicles axillary or in terminal panicles, 

 calyx cup-shaped, lobes deciduous, keeled inside, petals enveloping the stamens, 

 hooded or spathulate. Ovary 2-celled, styles 2. Fr. a subidoboso iudohisoetit 

 nut, seated on or partly enclosed by the persistent calyx tube, and prolonged 

 into a Linear coriaceous wing. Seed i, cotyledons thick, fleshy, radicle iui 

 short, albumen 0. 



I. V. madraspatana, Gaertn.; Roxb. ('or. PI. t. 76; Wighl Ic. t. 163; 

 Brandis F.F1.96. Vera. Kali bel, Dun; Bonga-Sarjom, Kol ; Papri, Surabi, 

 Tel. : Popli, Kan. 



A powerful climber, tendrils woody, branchlets, petioles and younger leaves 



