268 RHAMNACER, [ Seutia. 
SCUTIA, Comm. 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Calyx 5-cleft, the tube hemispherical 
or turbinate. Petals 5, flat or hooded. Disk filling the calyx- 
tube, the margins free and waved. Stamens 5. Ovary immersed 
in the disk, free, 2-4-celled ; style short, 2-3-cleft. Drupes dry or 
fleshy, containing 2-4 crustaceous pyrenes. Albumen none or 
scanty.—Spiny or unarmed shrubs, with opposite or almost opposite 
penninerved leaves. Flowers axillary, in clusters or small um- 
bellets. 
pea, smooth. 
Has.—Upper Tenasserim, along the Attaran. 
COLUBRINA, L. C. Rich. 
calyx-tube. Ovary immersed in the disk and confluent with the 
same, 3-celled, the style short, 3-cleft or 3-parted. Drupe obso- 
ge te 
letely 3-lobed, up to near } surrounded by the calyx-tube, contam- 
ing 3 cocci often capsule-like separating and loculicidally dehiscing. 
Albumen fleshy, but thin—Scandent or erect shrubs, with alter- 
nate penninerved leaves 3-nerved at base. Stipules small, deci- 
duous. Flowers small, in axillary cymes or clusters. 
’ Leaves and cymes glabrous . i wees j oe 0. Astatios. 
Cymes and leaves (at least beneath) tawny pubescent . - C. pubescens. 
1. C, Asiatica, Brongn. ; Hf. Ind. Fl. i, 642; Bedd. Sylv. 
Madr. 69, t. 10, f. 5.—Kuay-nway.—A large unarmed spreading 
shrub, often scandent, all parts glabrous; leaves ovate or ovate- 
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