192 RUTACES. [ Limonia. 
1. T. trifoliata, DC. ; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 507.—A glabrous ever- 
green shrub, about 5-6 ft. ‘high, armed with sharp thin spines, one 
at each side of the petiole - on the branchlets; leaves small, ona 
hardly 2 lin. long petiole, 3- or occasionally 1-2-foliolate ; leaflets 
obovate or oblong, very shortly petioluled, notched, crenate-tooth- 
ed, membranous, 4-1 in. long, glabrous, conspicuously dot 
flowers middling-sized, white, fragrant, solitary or in short cymes 
in the axils of the leaves ; petals. about 5 lin. one 5 3 berries the 
size of a pea, globular or depressed globular, ea a n. 
Has.—Tenasserim, apparently only cultivated.—Fl. Fr. 
LIMONIA, L. 
Calyx 5-lobed or parted. Petals 4-5, imbricate. Disk annular 
or stalk-like. Stamens 8 to 10, free ; the filaments subulate ; 
anthers cordate or linear-oblong. Ovary 4-5-celled, with a solitary 
ovule in each cell ; style rather short and thick, deciduous. Berry 
globose, 1-4-seeded. Seed enveloped in pulp. —Small trees or 
shrubs, often spiny, with alternate unpaired-pinnate —— the 
rachis more or less winged. Flowers in fascicles or racem 
Spiny little tree ; leaflets opposite ; ——— puberulou ole ——— 
Unarmed slender shrub ; leaflets alternate ; inflorescence pe So L. alternans, 
1. L. acidissima, L.; H.f. “Tad. Fl. i. 507 ; Bedd. Sylv. Madr. 
45,t. 7, £.3; Brand. For. Fl. 47.—Zh ce-haya-za. cee little tree, 20 
to 25 ft. high, armed with sharp prickles at both sides of the peti- 
oles, the younger parts more or less puberulous; leaves unpaired- 
pinnate, the rachis broadly leafy-winged ; leaflets in 2-4 pairs with 
an odd one, opposite, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, almost sessile, 
ibtchod or blunt, glabrous or along the nerves on both sides or rarely 
the whole under-surface puberulous, conspicuously pellucid-dotted 
flowers rather small, white, in short koaely. solitary or paired) 
sometimes leafy racemes or poor lax cymes arising from above the 
scars of the fallen leaves ; petals 4, elliptically CELE. about 24 lin. 
long ; stamens 8 ; ovary "4-celled, ‘the style rather long and thick ; 
berries globular, the size of a small pea, 1-4-seeded, bluish-black. 
Has.—Ava, apparently frequent ; also in Prome District.—Fl. H.S. ; Fr.B.S. 
2. L. alternans, Wall ; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 508.—A slender = 
or rarely branched "unarmed shrub, shedding leaves in HS., 2-4 ft. 
high, all parts quite glabrous ; leaves unpaired-pinnate, the ‘saahis 
ed 
oblong-lanceolate to lanceolate, almost sessile, oblique, acuminate, 
1-1} in. long, crenate, glabrous, pellucid-dotted ; flowers 5-merous, 
appearing with the young leaves, small, white, forming short glab- 
rous shortly peduncled or almost sessile ¢ cymes on short axillary 
branchlets and axillary ; calyx-lobes Devens live acute, 4 lin. 
