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GENUS V. SCUTTA. 
Pentandria Monogynia. Sex; Sy: 
_ Deriv. From Scutwm, a shield, in allusion to the form of the 
‘disk. 
Gey. Car. Shrubs: leaves alternate, approximated by pairs: 
stipules 2, deciduous: calyx 5-cleft, with erect segments: petals 
nearly flat, deeply emarginate, or 2-lobed-: anthers ovate, 2-celled : 
disk lining the tube of the calyx, not cohering with the ovary 
ovaty 2-4-celled : stigmas 2-47 fruit 2-4-coccous, surrounded at 
the pease by the persistent tube of the calyx. 
(1) S. Inpica. (Brongn) 
Ident. W.& A. prod. T. p. 165. 
Syn. Rhamnus circumscissus, Linn.—R. myrtimus, Burm. Ind, 
. 60.—Dec. prod. Tl. p. 27.—Ceanothus cireumscissa, Gaertn 
Dee. prod. II. p.30.—C. Zeylanica, Heyne. Dec. prod. II. p. 30.— 
Celastrus Zeylanica, Roth. in Schult. Dec. prod. IL. p. 9. 
#ingrav. Rheede Mal. V. t. 30, 31._-Wight’s Ill. I. t. 73. 
‘Spec. Cuan. A straggling thorny shrub: prickles somewhat 
opposite, recurved: leaves opposite, distant, not distichous, obo= 
vate, sometimes acute, usually quite entire: flowers axillary, shortly, 
umbellate: flowers small, greenish-yellow. 
Peninsula. Common along the higher Ghauts, flowering in the 
hot season 
(2) S. Ruzeprana. (R. W.) 
Ident. Wight’s Icon. vol. IIT. 
Engrav. Wight’s Icon, t. 1071, 
Spec. Cuar. Shrub, armed with a few scattered, recurved pric= 
kles: leaves somewhat opposite, approximated, out broad ovate to 
‘orbicular, tipped with a minute point, conspicuously parallel-veined, 
bright-green above, somewhat glaucous beneath : ovary 2- celled : 
fruit 2-celled ; seeds compressed. 
Neilgherries, near the Kaity falls, flowering nearly all the year, 
GENUS VI. COLUBRINA. 
Pentandria Monogynia. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. From Coluber, a snake, alluding to the appearance of 
the twisted stamens. 
Gz. Cuan. Calyx 5-cleft, spreading: petals 5: anthers ovate, 
2-celled: disk flattish, slightly S-angled; ovary 8-celled: style 
