J xciv. APOCTNACEJi. (J. D. Hooker.) 631 



branches ; axils and nodes with 2 simple or forked thorns, sometimes 1-2 in. lon^. 

 Leaves subaessile, 1^3 by 1-lJ in., rather thinly coriaceous, base ronnded or retuse, 

 tip rarely mucronate. Cymes terminal, peduncle stout, J-1 in. ; bracts minute ; 

 flowers crowded, white or pale rose-coloured, odorous. Cah/x-segmenta subulate-lan- 

 ceolate, acute, puberulous and ciliate. CorollortiAe J in., glabrous or puberulous with 

 swollen throat and lobes pubescent, lobes lanceolate, acute, about hajf as long as the 

 tube. Ovary-cells irovuled, J)ru;pe J-1 in. long, ellipsoid, red then black, polished, 

 4- or more-seeded. 



Vak. congeata, Beddome Fl. Sylv. Anal. Gen. 156 ; ovarian cells 2-ovuled. Kwrz 

 in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, ii. 250. C. congesta, Wight Ic. t. 1289. — Mt. Aboo, Stocks; 

 Kurg, the Wynaad and Birma. 



2. C. spinarum, A. DC. Frodr. viii, 332; suberect, shrubby, glabrous 

 or branches cymes and leaves beneath fiaely puberulous, leaves ^-1^ in. elliptie 

 ovate or rounded acute mucrona,te or apiculate rarely obtuse many or few- 

 nerved shining above, corolla J in, long, ovary 4-ovul6d, berry ^ in. subgZobose. 

 C. difiusa, Moxh. Fl. Ind. i. 689, and ed. WaU. <§■ Carey, ii. 624 ; A. DC. I. e. ; 

 Wight Ic. t. 427 ; Wall. Cat. 1678, partly; Brand. For. Fl. 321 ; Kun Fm: FL 

 ii. 169 ; Beddome Fl. Sylv. t. 157. 



Drier parts of India; from the Punjab Himalaya, which it ascends to 6000 ft. 

 in Murree, to Ceylon and Birma. 



Probably a state of C. Carandas as suggested by Brandis, than which it is a 

 smaller plant with shorter and more slender spines, more acute leaves and a smaller- 

 berry. 



Vae. hirsuta ; more pubescent. C. hirsuta. Roth Nov. 8p. 128 ; A. DC, Frodr. 

 viii. 333 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 169 ; Dalz. ^ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 143. C. viUosa, Boxb. Fl. 

 Ind. ed. Carey ^ WaU. ii. 525; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 116. Wight Ic. t. 437. Not 

 uncommon. 



3. C. paucinervia, A. DC. Frodr. viii. 333; suberect, shrubby, gla- 

 brous except the puberulous petioles and cymes, leaves 1-1^ in., elliptic-oblong 

 or -lanceolate acute at both ends very coriaceous not shining, nerves 2-3 pairs 

 very oblique, corolla ^-g in., berry ^ in. ellipsoid. Wight Ic. t. 1290. 0. 

 difiusa, Wall. Cat. 1678, in part. 0. Oarandas, var. paucinervia, Beddome Fl. 

 Sylv. Anal. Gen. 156 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, ii. 260. 



Lower Behqal ; Monghir, Hamilton in Herb. Wall. Nilgheeey Mts. ; at the 

 Kaitia Palls, Wight, &c. ? C. salicina, LamJc. ; A. DC. I. c. 



A small ramous shrub, with the habit of C. diffusa, and probably, as Beddome 

 conjectures, a variety of that species, but very distinct in appearance, more densely 

 leafy, the leaves less shining than in its congeners and yellower when dry. Peduncles 

 very short, 3-5-fld. Corolla-lobes very narrow. — I suspect o mistake as to the 

 Monghir locality and that Wallich's specimens are mislabelled. 



** Spines decwrved, 



4. C. macrophylla, Wall. Cat. 1679 ; shrubby, erect ; quite glabrous 

 except the puberulous cymes, leaves 2^ in. ovate or elliptic-ovate acute or 

 acuminate many-nerved, cymes sessile, corolla 1 in., berry |-1 in, ellipsoid. 

 A. DC. Frodr. viii. 332. 0. inermis, Vahl Symb. iii. 43; A. DC. I. c. 335. C. 

 lanceolata, Dalz. in Dalz, S/- Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 143. 0. Dalzellii, Beddome For^ 

 Fl. Anal. Gen. 157. C. mitia, Heyne mss. 



Deccan Peninsuxa ; Kurg, Heyne ; the Concan, at Kamghat, Daleell ; Courtallum, 

 Both, Wight. 



A large shrub, thorns very strong, curved, 1-1 J in., and branches dark brown. 

 Leaves shortly petioled, drying dark brown. Flowers as in C. Carandas, but lobes of 

 corolla longer and narrower. Calyx-lobes longer and more slender, a.lmost filiform in 

 the Courtallum specimens, which have smaller leaves. — I cannot doubt this being 



