286 XXIV. TERNSTRCEMiACE^. (W. T. Thiselton Dyer.) [Actinidia. 



dioecious, in axillary cymes, rarely solitary. Sepals 5, slightly imbricate, 

 subconnate at the base. Petals 5, somewhat contorted-imbricate. titamens 

 many: anthers dehiscing by slits. Ovary many-celled; styles as nu- 

 merous, divergent and elongated after flowering. Fruit baccate, containing 

 raphides.— DisTEiB. Himalaya, China and Japan ; species about 8. 



1. A. callosa, Lindl. Nat. Syst. ed. 2, 439; glabrous, leaves broadly 

 elliptic setosely serrulate, sepals tomentose, fruit sparsely wartei A. Kolo- 

 mitka, Rupr. in Maxim. Amur. 63. Dillen. ord. callosa. Wall. Cat. 6634. 



Temperate Himalaya, from Garwhal to Bhotan, alt. 4-8000 ft. ; Khasia Mts., alt. 

 4-5000 ft. — DisTKiB. Manchuria, Japan, Loochoo Islands. 



A shrubby climber ; stems brown with white verruculse. Leaves 4-6 by 2-3i m., 

 membranous, acuminate ; petioles l-U in. Flowers h in. diam. in small lax umbellate 

 cymes, wliite. Pedicels with an obsolete bract below the calyx. Sepdk oblong, obtuse. 

 Styles olavate. P'ruit | in., ovoid. 



2. A. strigosa, Hooh. f. <fc Thorns, in Joum. Linn. Soc. v. 55 ; strigose- 

 hispid, leaves ovate or oblong callously ciliate or denticulate, sepals nearly 

 smooth. 



SiKKiM Himalaya, alt. 6-8000 ft., /. D. B. 



A shrubby climber with the habit of A. callosa. Leaves 4-5 by 2-3 in., acuminate ; 

 petioles about 1 in. Peduncles short, 2-4-flowered. Flowers | in. diam., shortly pedi- 

 celled, white. SeipaU elliptic, obtuse. Styles scarcely dilated at the apex. Fruit 

 Ij in., ovoid, mucilaginous, edible. 



8. SAVRATTJA, Willd. 



Trees or shrubs. Branches usually brown with whitish tubercular dots, 

 at first as well as the leaves more or less strigose-pilose or scaly. Leaves 

 approximate at the ends of the branches,- usually serrate, with parallel veins 

 diverging from the midrib. Inflorescence lateral, often from the axils of 

 fallen leaves, cymose^ subpaniculate, rarely few-flowered. Bracts usually 

 small, remote from the calyx. Flowers usually hermaphrodite. Sepals 5, 

 strongly imbricate. Petals 5, usually connate at the base. Stantens many ; 

 anthers dehiscing by pores. Ovary 3-5-celled ; styles as many, distinct or 

 connate ; ovules many. Fruit baccate, rarely dry and subdehiscent. — 

 DiSTEiB. Tropical and subtropical Asia and America. Species about 60. 



* Flowers in axillary pedunoled panicles. Styles 5. 



1. S. napaulensis, DC. Mem. Ternstr. 29 ; panicles 2-4 in. alternately 

 branched with a peduncle about- 5 in., bracteoles deciduous elliptic acute, 

 sepals orbicular glabrous. Wall. PI. Asiai. Rar. ii. 40, 77, t. 178 ; Gai. 1469. 

 S. paniculata. Wall, in G. Don Gen. Syst. i. 567. Ternstroemia racemosa, 

 Bon Prodr. 225. Zanthoxylum Serra, Turcz. in Bidl. Mosc. 1858, 440. 



Temperate Himalaya, from Bhotan and Sikkim, alt. 5-7000 ft., to Garwbal, alt. 

 2400-5000 ft. ; Khasia Mts., alt. 5000 ft. ; Mishmi hills, Griffith. 



A moderate sized tree ; youngest branches, petioles, midribs and peduncles covered 

 with scurfy tomentum, mixed with brown, deciduous, acuminate scales. Leaves 10-15 

 by 3-4 in,, narrow oblong- elliptic, rounded at the base, shortly acuminate, strongly ser- 

 rate, nearly glabrous above, thinly ferruginous-tomentose beneath; petioles 1-1 J in. 

 Flowers i in. diam., pink. Sepals J in. Petals at length recurved at the apex. Fruit 

 green, mealy inside, edible, sweet. Seeds red-brown. — ^Varies with elliptic obtuse leaves. 



2. S. Griffithii, Byer ; panicle 4-6 in. alternately branched with a 

 peduncle 6-8 in., bracteoles small oblong, sepals elliptic obtuse densely 

 tomentose externally, 



