Roydsia. } CAPPARIDER.” 67 
RemarKs.—Wood very hard. 
N. In Upper Tenasserim occurs ee species ie the leaves very 
acuminate and beneath almost whitish-glauc oe has 2-celled ovary with 
very numerous aes and may be either C. neta perma, fds or more probably 
C. Narvala, Ham 
- C. hygrophila, Kz.— Yai-kha-tat.—A_ low, slender, simple- 
stemmed or aaa branched shrub, 2 to 5 feet high, all par 
quite glabrous; bark smooth, brown, white-speckled ; “leaves as in 
former and of same size, sometimes also much smaller; flowers 
solitary in the axils of the leaves and said to be white and sm mall ; 
berries spindle-shaped or oblong, 1-2 in. long, 1-celled on stalks of 
similar length, smooth, of a chocolate colour, white-dotted; seeds 
sega smooth, 
uncommon in the swamp-forests of the Inrawaddi-Alluvium.— 
Fl. Dee (OF ie Jan.-Feb.—s 
ROYDSIA, Roxb. 
Sepals 6, imbricate or almost valvate. Petals none. Stam 
iuserted on the short torus. Ovary shortly stalked, 3-celled, with 
numerous ovules on the 2 placentas; stigmas 1-3, “Drupe shortly 
stalked, with a fragile rind, containing a 1 1-seeded putamen. Testa 
membranous -—Scandent shrubs, with : simple leaves and small race- 
mose flowe 
Styles 3, short, sessile ; j ovary glabrous . R. obtusifolia. 
Style = with 3 minute stigmas ; ovary densely "pubescent . R. parviflora. 
1. R, obtusifolia, H.f. & Th. Ind. Fi. Se eect. gray 
evergreen large climbing shrub, all parts glabrous; bark thin, grey, 
white-lenticellate ; leaves oblong, obtuse a ese: "fbodt 3-4 in. long, 
acute or blunt, chartaceous, glabrous, glossy above ; flowers small, 
greenish-white, on tomentose “pedicels less a $ lin, song forming 
greyish tomentose racemes or panicles in the leaf-axil mpound 
panicles at the end of the branches; sepals a a eee Goesenteds: 
4 of them free, linear-oblong, the 2 others combined so as to make 
h; 
and 3$-celled, the numerous ovules attached to the angle of the 
central axis; stigmas 3, linear, sessile ; drupes elliptically oblong, 
the size of a iii somewhat = Ug oae 
Has.—Frequent in the swam nd along inundated marshy river- 
—— of the 4 alluvial lands of ag crc and tans avon: also Tenas- 
rim.—F]. March; Fr. May-June.—s: 1. 
2. KB. Griff.; H#. Ind. Fi. i. 409.—A climbing 
‘shrub ; leaves alipticl or elliptically lanceolate, 4-7 in. long, on a 
slender petiole §-3 in. long, acuminate, glabrous, rather membran- 
