Gouania.|  -RHAMNACER. 269 
Has.—Frequent in the beach- and coast-forests along the sea-shores — 
Arracan down to Tenasserim and the Andamans.—Fl. Febr ; Fr. March-Apr 
aga = Aren. All. 
2. C. pubescens, Kz.; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 642.—A large leaf-shed- 
ding scandent shrub, unarmed, all younger parts densely tawn 
pubescent ; leaves as in preceding, but densely tawny pubescent 
; while young, glabrescent above; flowers small, greenish, on slender, 
z a line long, pubescent pedicels, ‘forming short, thick, tawny pubes- 
cent cymes in the axils of the leaves ; drupes smaller than those 
of the gy species. 
Has.—Frequent in me open, especially the low forests (and entering also the 
tpi ot all ov —— and Marta ban .—Fl. March; Fr. Apr.-May.— 
ieislecs 
GOUANIA, L. 
Flowers polygamous. Colyx 5-lobed, oe tube short, obversely 
- conical, adhering to the ovary. Petals 5, hooded. Stamens 5, 
Disk filling the calyx-tube, 5-angular or produced into 5 horns. 
Ovary aaa in the disk, 3- celled ; A ts 3-parted or 3-cleft. 
3-nerved at the base. Stipules oblong, deciduous. Flowers small, 
| in axillary or terminal racemes or spikes, the rachis often transform- 
: ed into a tendril. 
Leaves, etc., glabrous or nearly so, the former crenate-serrate; disk 
glabrous, 5- peo capsules eabins e. 5 lin. long G. leptostachya. 
All softer parts rusty-tomen foes leaves entire; se 3- ais 
long, puberulous, glabrescen * . G. Brandisii. 
1. G, leptostachya, DC; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 643.—Za-yaw-nyo- 
-—A large scandent tendril-bearing shrub, the young shoots 
slightly Poleacent the stems about 2 in. thick ; bark grey, spongy, 
tortuously fissured ; leaves — or oblong-cordate, on a long 
slender petiole, about 3-4 in. n. long, acuminate, coarsely crenate- 
Serrate, glabrous or ipatingly sprinkled with short appressed hairs 
ingle the nerves beneath ; Bowers small, yello — on short spar- 
spreading n notched horns ; dru onpented r, coriaceous, ace pero . eee 
» glabrous, 3 rated, containing 3 ae seeds. 
aa in the mixed forests and in shrubberies around and 
6 tieameal t Burma down to Tonasserim—I.—Fl. reload OE Sons: 
