194 Kiv. BixiNE^. (Hook. f. & Thorns.) [Flaemrtia.^ 



different species. Wallich's specimens and four in Wight's Herb, are all we have seen, 

 and these are male. 



8. r. sepiaria, Roxh. 6V. Pl.i. 48, t. 68; Fl. Ivd. iii. 835; shrubby,' 

 very thorny, thorns usually bearing flowers and fruit, leaves small obcor- 

 date obovate or oblong or cuneate-obovate or orbicular crenate-serrate, when 

 old rigid coriaceous and shining, flowers dioecious solitary or few in nearly 

 glabrous racemes, stigmas 3-4. W. & A. Prodr. 29; Wall. Gat. 6676; 

 Dalz. <& Gibs. Boiab. Fl. 11. F. obcordata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. ,835. H. cor- 

 difolia and rotundifolia, Boxb. Hart. Beng. 73. Sideroxybn spmosum, 

 Waid. Sp. PI. i. 1091 ; Rheede Hort. Mai. v. t. 39. 



Dry jungles throughout Benqal, the WjiSTEPH Pehihsdla, and Cetiojj. — Disteib. 

 Java. 



A very rigid thorny hush. Leaves J-3 in,, usually more or less cuneate at the hase ; 

 ■when larger .and more membranous or more elliptic it is difficult to distinguish this 

 fi-om F. Mamonichi viirs. 1 ,and 2. Flower generally solitary or twin in a ?ery imper- 

 fect raceme, very .small. Mak sepals ovate, obtuse,; female orbicular. Stigmas 

 usually separate, /on vpry short styles. Drupe size of a large pea. 



Flacodetia Wightiana, WaU. Cat. 6672 is a Scepa. F. hivea. Moon. Cat. 70 is 

 Flueggea hucopyrus, Wt. 



5. XVIiOSItKA, Forster. 



Characters of FlaaovHm, but ovary with 2, rarely 3-6 few-ovuled parietal 

 placentas, a usually entire very short style, capitate stigma (in the Indian 

 species) and globose 2-8-seeded berry. — Disxeib. Species about 25, natives 

 01 all tropical regions. 



1. X. long'ifoliuin, Glos in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 4, viii. 231 ; leaves 

 linear- or elliptic- or oblong-lanceolate acuminate obtusely serrate, nerves 

 spreading, ^ flowers in short racemes, rarely in long panicles, bracts 

 ovate acuminate. Fiacourtia ferox. Wall. mss. in Voigt. tiort. Suburb. 

 Gale. 84. 



WESTi:RN Himalaya on the outier ranges, ascending to 5000 ft., from Kumaon, Strach. 

 and Wint., to Marri, Stewart. Assaij, at Nowgong and Gowahatty, Jenkins, &o. 



A glabrous bush ; branches rather long, slender. Leaves 4-fl by 1J-2J in., coria- 

 ceous, shining above, base acute, rarely obtuse ; nerves 8-1 2 on each side the midrib; 

 petiole J- J in. Bacemes usually very short, ^ in., and crowded in the leaf axils, sessile, 

 many-flowered, glabrous or puberulous, rarely elongate and branched. Flowers solitary 

 or fascicled, \ in. diam. Berry glabrous, | in. diam. — The specimens with panioled in- 

 florescence occur amongE^t those from Assam. 



2. X. controversum, Glos I.e.; leaves elliptic or elliptic-oblong 

 (rarely lanceolate) acuminate obtusely serrate, nerves very oblique, flowers 

 panicled puberulous, bracts linear-oblong. Flaeourtia Cataphracta, Wall. 

 Gat. 6674 C. 



NiPAL, Wallich. Khasja Httis, Griffith; Churta, alt. 3-4000 it., H.f.tl; T. 



Very near X longlfo.lium, especially the form of that species with panioled male 

 flowers ; best distinguished by the usually shorter (3-6 in.) leaves, often more mem- 

 branous, with invariably very phhque nerves and fewer of them ,on each side (6-8). 

 The sepals are equal or unequal, and the character of the bracts is perhaps not a veiy 

 good one. The fruit is alike in both. 



3. X, latifolium, R. f. & T. ; leaves broadly elliptic-oblong obtuse 

 or acute obtusely serrate or s.ubentire, nerves few very oblique, petiole. 



