512 XXXIII. KUTACE^. (J. D. Hooker.) 



calyx in flower or after it irregularly split to the base, margin erose 

 scarious, filaments monadelphous, ovary usually 4-celled, ovules 1 or 2. 

 W. & A. Prodr. 91 ; Wight III. i. 108 ; Wall. Gat. 6353 ; OUv. in Joum. 

 Linn. Soe. v. Suppl. ii. 24 ; Balz. «& GHJbs. Bomb. Flor. 28 ; Bedd. Flor. Sylv. 

 Anal. Gen. xlvi. t. 7, f. 5. A. floribunda, Wight. let. 1611. A. platystigma, 

 WigM III. L 108. Limonia monophylla, Linn. ; Roxb. Cor. PI. i t. 82 ; Fl. 

 Ind. ii. 378. Turraea virens, HeUen. in Act. Holm. 1788, t. 10, f. i. {not' of 

 Linn.). Trichilia spinosa, WiUd. ; DC. Prodr. L %iZ.—Rheede Hort. Md. 

 iv. t. 12 ; Burm. Fl. Zeyl. t. 65, f. i 



SiLHET, at the foot of the Khasia Mts., H.f. & T.; throughout the Westebn 

 Peninsula, from the Concau and Coromandel southwards ; Ceylon, not uncommon 

 towards the N. of the Island. 



A large glabrous shrub or small tree, with rigid flexuous woody branches (the tips 

 often pubescent), and usually strong axillary single spines. Leaflet 1-3 in., ovate- 

 oblong or elliptic, obtuse, notched or 2-lobed at the tip, coriaceous, bright green, quite 

 entire ; petiole very short, often pubescent, stipalar scales subulate. Fknoers ^-4 in. 

 diam. , always fascicled in the leaf-axils, pubescent ; pedicels ^-4 in., minutely brac- 

 teolate ; buds subglobose or pyriform. Calyx rupturing irregularly. Petals obOvate- 

 oblong, obtuse. Filaments 8, rarely 5-7, oonuate into an irregularly cleft tube, which 

 is antheriferous at the top ; anthers broadly ovoid. Ovary sessile on a small disk, 

 3-5-celled. Berry as large as a nutmeg, globose, like a lime, usually 4-oelled ; cells 

 1-se.eded. — Roxburgh describes the flowers, as shortly racemose, and calyx as 4r-5-parted, 

 which does not agree with our specimens from the Peninsula. 



Vae. macrophyUa, OUv. I.e. ; leaves larger and broader, flowers racemose, pedicels 

 stout compressed (flowers not seen). — Tenasserim, Heifer. 



Vae. carissoides, Oliv. I.e. ; leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, pedicels longer hairy. 

 A. carissoides, WaU. Cat. 6354. — Segaen on the Irrawaddy, Wallich. 



t+ Calyx regularly or subreguiarly 4r-5-lobed. 



2. A. racemosa, W. ds A. Prodr. 91 ; leaflet oblong elliptic or ovate 

 oblong, lip obtuse or 2-lobed, flowers racemed rarely fascicled, racemes 

 pubescent or glabrous, calyx 4-lobed, lobes acute or obtuse, filaments more 

 oriess connate, ovary 2-3-celled, ovules 2 collateral. Oliv. in Joum. Linn, 

 ^oc. V. Suppl. ii. 24 ; Bedd. Flor. Sylv. Anal. Gen. xlvi. A. capitellata, Lindl. 

 in WaU Cat. 6355. Sclerostylis racemosa, parvifolia and ovalifoUa, WigM 

 III. i. 109. S. atalantioides, Wight Ic. 71. Lampetia (?io« ofW.&A. Prodr.) 

 racemosa, Roem. Synops. f aso. i. 42 ? Limonia ? missionis. Wall. Cat. 6358 E. 



Western Peninsula ; from the Conoan to Travancor ; Ceylon, at Galagame, 

 Gardner. 



A small tree, armed or unarmed, very similar to A. monophylla, but the flowera, in- 

 stead of being long pedicelled in short racemes or fascicles, are shortly pedicelled on 

 racemes sometimes 3 in. long, but at others almost reduced to corymbs ; the leaves are 

 usually larger, and often broader, though quite small in Wight's figure ; the flowers are 

 of the same size, but often very crowded and the buds very globose, they are usually 

 4- but sometimi-s 3— 5-merous, and the filaments are free or variously united ; the ovary 

 is sessile on a small disk. — The great distinction between these species is in the more 

 or less regularly 4- (3-5-) lobed calyx ot this, the lobes of which are acute or obtuse. 

 Fruit globose, f in. diam. One of Wight's specimens has ovate leaves, cordate at the 

 base. Wallich's 6358 E, from Penang (6. Porter), in fruit only, with leaves cordate at 

 the base, may be this or the following, or something different from both. 



3. A. ceylanlca, Oliv. in Joum. Linn. Soa. v. Suppl. ii. 25 ; leaflet 

 obtuse notched or 2-lobed rarely obtusely acuminate, flowers very shortly 

 racemed, calyx 4-lobed, filaments free or 2 or 3 of them more or Igss com- 

 bined, ovary 2-celled, ovules 2 collateral. Thwaites Enum. 405; Bedd. 

 Flor. Sylvat. Anal. Gen. xlvi. Rissoa zeylanica, Am. in Act. Acad. Nat. 



