Luvunga. | RUTACER, 191 
nately shorter ; ovary 2 celled, the style short and thick ; betries 
oblong, somewhat acute, the size of a small pea, 1- Q-seeded, 
bluish-black. 
Has.—Rather frequent along choungs in the tropical forests of the eastern 
slopes of the Pegu Yomah ; also in Chittagong. —Fl. March.—s.—SS8.=Si8. 
3. M. elongata, DC. ; H.f. Ind. Fl.i. 503.—A shrub or tree(?), 
the bark pale-yellow ; leaves pinnately Fé 6- cape Balas: the 
petiole with rachis 3 in. long, angular ; leaflets 4-5 in. long, ovate 
or elliptically lanceolate, bluntish and notchadly dnidnte -acumi- 
nate, coriaceous, pale bright-brown in a dried state; berries % in. 
long, narrowly ellipsoid. (From Hooker’s Fl. Ind.) 
Has.—Ava. 
LUVUNGA, Ham. 
Calyx cupular, almost entire or 4-6-lobed. Petals 4 or r 5, im- 
bricate. Stamens 8-10, equal or nearly so, free or united at base ; 
anthers linear or “iiteat blog: Disk raised, annular or eupular. 
Ovary 2-4-celled, with 2 superposed ovules in each cell ; style conti- 
nuous, rather thick, deciduous ; the stigma capitate. Berry 1-3- 
ed, with a thick leathery skin. Testa — seeds membranous.— 
hL. seine ens, Ham.; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 509 ai powerful scan- 
dent shrub, armed with axillary an strong sharp and more or 
less reeurved thorn all parts glabrous ; leaves 3-foliolate, long- 
petioled, blabhotis © leaflets ares gg or blo ne -lanceolate, shortly 
ioluled, more or less acum coriaceous, 3-10 in. 
inate 
ong ; flowers conspicuous, white, shoe "pallcdlol forming glab- 
Tous cymose racemes in the axils of the leaves and above the 
Scars of the fallen ones; petals about 5-6 lin. lon ng ; filaments 
ie: ne ae “Chittagong —F. H.S.; Fr. Oct.-Sept. 
TRIPHASIA, ja 
Calyx 3-lobed. Petals 3, imbricate. — 6, free ; 
filaments dilated at the base ; anthers linear. Disk fleshy, set 
or stalk-like. Ovary 3-celled, with a ate or shen in each cell, 
tion 1-2-seeded. Testa of seeds coriaceous.—A ‘dior sesh with 
a 3-foliolate leaves. Flowers small, axillary, solitary or 
shottly eymose. | 
