160 JASMINER. [ Chionanthus. 
about a line long; drupes nearly an inch long, oblong or elliptically 
oblong, glabrous, bluish black. 
Has.—Rather rare in the hill Eng forests of Martaban east of Tounghoo, at 
1,500 to 2,500 ft. elevation; Upper Tenasserim.—l.—SS.—Metam. 
MYXOPYRUM, BI. 
Calyx urceolate, sharply 4-toothed. Corolla coriaceous, with a 
short tube, the limb 4-parted, valvate in bud. Stamens 2, inserted 
at the base of the corolla-tube ; anthers thick. Ovary 2-celled, the 
cells with a solitary erect ovule; stigmas 2, sessile, subulate. 
Drupes 1- or 2-celled, with a solitary globular or 2 hemispherical 
seeds, the pericarp fleshy. Albumen horny.—Scandent shrubs, with 
4-cornered branches and opposite 3-nerved simple leaves. Flowers 
minute, in terminal or axillary panicles. 
1. M, smilacifolium, Bl.— An evergreen, large, scandent shrub, 
all parts glabrous; leaves oblong to ovate-oblong, acute, and 
often unequal at the base, on a thick 3-4 lin. long petiole, 4-6 
m. long, shortly acuminate, remotely and minutely spinescent- 
thed or almost entire, coriaceous, glabrous, 3-plinerved or almost 
5-nerved above the base, veined and more or less distinctly net- 
veined ; flowers minute, yellowish, very shortly pedicelled, forming 
a more or less ample, sessile or peduncled, obsoletely puberulous oF 
glabrous panicle at the end or in the fork of the branches ; corolla- 
lobes clavate-linear; drupes globular or didymous, the size of 4 
large pea, 1-2-seeded, orange-yellow. 
Var. 2, ilicifolium: leaves somewhat narrower and stronger 
nerved and veined, strongly and approximately spinose-serrate ; 
sien short, rather contracted, axillary and leaf-opposite, rarely 
rminal, 
Hap.—Var. 1: in the forests of Chittagong; var. 2: rather frequent in the 
tropical forests of Martaban.—Fl. Apr. May a 1.—SS.=Metam. 
AZIMA, Lamk. 3 
Flowers unisexual. Calyx ventricose-bell-shaped, 3- or 4-cleft. 
Corolla 4-petalled, the fins athahating with the pag hgh Sie | 
mens 4, inserted on the torus, alternating with the petals; filaments : 
thickened ; anthers almost sagittate, incumbent. Ovary free; ?- 
celled, the cells with a solitary erect ovule ; style short, with an 
acute stigma. Fruit berry-like, 1- or 2-seeded. Albumen nome — 
Embryo small, with large, flat, orbicular cotyledons.—Shrubs, wi) — 
more or less 4-cornered branches and opposite simple leaves, per o 
furnished with 2 stipulary spines at their insertion. Flowers smal) 
in axillary clusters or the clusters racemose, ce 
