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straight spines (reduced branchlets) ; leaves ovate or ovate-oblong, 
13-2 in. long, rather long petioled, acute at base, blunt, entire, 
glabrous ; flowers whitish, rather large, forming little nodding 
cymes, rarely solitary or by 2-3; petals 3-4 lin. long, densely and 
long bearded inside ; drupes oval-oblong, about an in. long or longer, 
. red, smooth, edible, containing a large not very hard nut. 
! _Has.—Not unfrequent along the rocky coast of the Andamans; also Tenas- 
serim, 
OLAX, L. 
Calyx truncate, enlarging after flowering, and more or less en- 
closingthe fruit. Petals 6, rarely 5, inserted to the free turbinate 
disk. Perfect stamens usually 3, alternate with the petals, the re- 
maining 7-9 reduced to simple or 2-cleft staminodes. Ovary half- 
immersed in the disk, 3-celled only at base, with 3 ovules suspended 
from the central placenta; style more or less elongate. Drupes 
free, enclosed in the enlarged coriaceous or membranous calyx. 
Seed spuriously erect. Albumen fleshy.—Trees or shrubs, usually 
scandent, with alternate entire leaves. Flowers small, in axilla 
short racemes or spikelets, rarely solitary. 
X Enlarged i i mbranous, dry. 
Branchlets Boe ee ek ae leaves bel and the ra- 
cemes, pu ous ° = > : ; ‘ . ° 
All parts, also the racemes, quite glabrous; branchlets cornered . O. Zeylanica. 
X X Enlarged fruiting calyx coriaceous; branchlets 
flowers 4-5 lin. long. ‘ 2 Fs . - 2 O. imbricata. 
1. 0. scandens, Roxb. ; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 575; Brand. For. Fi. 
15.—Joung-lai-loo or lai-loo.—A large scandent shrub, with scat- 
tered spines on the old stems, all the younger parts p or 
puberulous, the branchlets terete; leaves oval or oblong, rather 
shortly petioled, blunt or bluntish apiculate, about 2-3 in. long, 
entire, more or less puberulous beneath, glabrescent ; flowers small, 
white, shortly pedicelled, forming short axillary solitary puberulous 
racemes much shorter than the leaves ; petals usually 5, rarely 6, 
half-way united by pairs by means of the adnate filaments so as to 
Sprig 3 two-cleft petals, about 3-4 lin. pt ; ee aor g 
_&t apex, glabrous; drupes almost globose or ellipsoid, the size of a 
large pea, enclosed ai ths membranous cup-sha enlarged free 
calyx, apiculate, 1-seeded. . 
Has.—Rather frequent all over Burma from Ava and Ceeaeene down to 
im, i al dschons tose ae the pine forests up to 
.-March.—l,—SS. = @ Sal. 
3,500 ft, slevation.— FI Deeb 
2. 0. Zeylanica, L.; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 576; Bedd. Sylv. Madr. 
—60.—A large shrub, all parts glabrous, the branchlets angular while 
young, when adult marked by 2 sharp lines; leaves ovate-lanceo- 
= late, shortly petioled, 3-4 in, long, acute or obtuse at base, acumi- 
