510 xxxTii. BUtACE^. (J. D. Hooker.) [Paramignya. 



* Flowers nearly 1 in. long. Calyx cupulair viUh broad lobes, 



1. P. monophylla, " Wight III. i. 109, t. 42 (Micromelum T) ; spines 

 recurved, leaflet oblong or elliptic with an abruptly acute tip, flowers 1-4 

 equalling or exceeding the pedicels, calyx cupular broadly 4-5-lobed, 

 stamens 10-12, ovary-cells 3-5 2-ovuled. Oliv. in Joum. Linn. Hoc. v. 

 Suppl. ii. 41. 



SiKKiM Himalaya, alt. 2-5000 ft., J. D. H. ; Bhotan, Booth; Khasia Mts., alt. 

 2-4000 ft. ; Tenasserim, £o66; Western Penihsdla, common ; the Western Forests, 

 from the Conoan southward ; Ceylon. 



A stout climbing evergreen shrub, with strong green flexuous woody branches and 

 hooked axillary spines sometimes nearly an inclj long ; tips of young; shoots and petioles 

 often pubescent. Leaflets 2J-5 in., usually elliptic and rounded at both ends, rarely 

 somewhat obpvate, sometimes elliptic-lanceolate and acute or caudate-acuminate, coria- 

 ceous, bright green ; nerves numerous, spreading ; petiole i-| in. £Towers 1 in. diam., 

 white, fragrant. Petals linear-oblong, very imbricate. Filaments linear, flattened, 

 glabrous and hairy. Ovwry hairy or glabrous ; style glabrous above ; ovules rarely 

 solitary. Berry ovoid or obovoid, size of a nut or larger, yellow, odour heavy. Seeds 

 compressed. 



2. P. g^randiflora, Oliv. in Joum. Linn. Soc. v. Suppl. ii. 42 : spines 

 short recurved or 0, branches and leaves beneath pubescent, leafletelliptic or 

 ovate-oblong abruptly obtusely acuminate, flowers usually solitary shorter 

 than or equalling the slender pubescent or glabrate pedicel, calyx 

 cupular, filaments villous, ovary-cells 5 usually 2-ovuled. Limonia grandi- 

 flora, Wall. Cat. 6361. 



Tenasbekim, at Tavoy, Wallich, Selfer ; Sincapore, Lohh. 



A small tree ( WaMich). Branches slender, terete, sometimes glabrate. Leaflets 

 24-4 in., thinly coriaceous, base rounded. Flowers 1 in. long, ae large as those of 

 P. monophylla ; pedicel sometimes longer, with a pair of basal bracteoles. Calyx-loles 

 rounded, ciliate. Petals linear-oblong. 



* Flowers about \ in. long. Calyx small, with acute teeth. 



3. P. Griffitbii, Hook. f. ; spines short, branches and leaves glabrous 

 or pubescent, leaflet elliptic or oblong abruptly obtusely acuminate, 

 flowers 1-3, pedicels very short, calyx acutely 5-lobed, filaments longpr 

 than the linear-oblong anthers, ovary-cells 5 2-ovuled. P. citrifolia, Oliv. 

 in Joum. Linn. Soc. v. Suppl. ii. 42 {not Limonia citrifolia, Boxb.). Citrus 

 scandens, Griff. Notul. iv. 495 ; Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 587, f. 1. 1 Limonia 

 oblonga. Wall. Cat. 6359 ; and L. missionis, Wall. Cat. 6358 D. & F. 



BiEMA, at the Serpentine Mines and Malacca, Griffith; Mukee hills in Assam, Masters; 

 VEGti, M'Lelland. ? Pehano and Silhet, WaUich. 



Branches and foliage like that of P. monophylla, but the flowers are very different, 

 i-J in. long, with a small acutely-lobed calyx. Fruit unknown. — Griffith's'figure is a 

 great exaggeration, as his specimens prove. Wallich's 6358 D and F are referable to 

 this or the following. 



4. P. Citrifolia, Hodk.f. {not of Oliver); glabrous, spines short, leaflet 

 elliptic ovate acute, flowers 1-3, pedicels very short, calyx acutely 6-lobed, 

 filaments much shorter than the linear elongate anther, ovary-cells 5 

 2-ovuled. Limonia citrifolia, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 379. 



Chittaoong, Boxburgh. 



Young shoots polished. Leaflet 4-5 by 2-3 in., quite entire. Flowers white, about 

 Jin. diam. Petals oblong. Filaments quite free. Ovary ovoid-oblong, 6-grooved; 

 style short, thick ; stigma subpeltate. Berry ovoid, pointed, of the colour and appear- 

 ance of a Lime, even to the little green cells in the cortex. Seeds 1-4, separated by a 



