516 XXXIII. KUTACE^, (J. D. Hooker.) [atrus. 



Botanic Gardens, without flower or fruit, and of wMcli I have se^n dried specimens; as 

 I have also flowering ones from the Mauritius Gardens, all named O. Bystrix. Kuria 

 has, no doubt rightly, identified Eumph's figures quoted above with this plant. Distin- 

 guished from C Auraraium by the spinsus ibranchlels, large petSoles, and small flowers 

 which are 4-petalous. The fruit varies from the size of a walnut to that of a small 

 apple, it has a very thick more or less tuljercled rind ^nd insipid or acid pulp. Knrz, 

 probably by a misprint, describes the flowers as 4-5-androus, Miguel says 24-androus ; 

 I find in Mauritius specimens about 15 stamens. 



4. C. decumana, Linn. ; youBg shoots pubescent, leaflet large ovate- 

 oblong frequently emarginate pubescent beneath, petiole broadly wingedj 

 flowers large white, stamens 16-24, fruit large pale globose or pyriforra, 

 rind thick, pulp pale sweet or acrid. Boxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 393 ; Dalz. <& Gibs. 

 Bomb. FL Suppl. 12 ; Wall. Cat. 6388. 



Commonly .cultivated in India. A native of the Malayan and Polynesian Islands. 



A tree, 30-40 ft. Leaflets 6-9 in. Fruit often very large, pulp yellow pink or 

 crimson, sweet or acrid, vesicles distinct.— Shaddock, Pumelo, Pompelmoes. 



22. FERONIA, G.8ertn. 



A spinous tree. Leaves alternate, imparipinnate ; leaflets opposite, sub- 

 sessile, quite entire ; petiole winged or not. Flowers in termiaal or lateral 

 loose panicles or racemes., polygamous. Calyx smaU^ flat, 5-toothed, deci- 

 duous. Fdalsb, rarely 4^6, spreading, imbricate. Stamens 10-12, a few 

 sometimes imperfect, inserted around a short disk, filaments dilated, sides 

 and front villous, tip subulate ; anthers linear-oblong. Ovary oblong, 

 5-6-celled, at length 1-celled ; style 0, stigma oblong fusiform deciduous ; 

 ovules 03, crowded in many series upon 5-6 at length parietal placentas. 

 Fruit \axge, globose, 1-celled, qo -seeded, bark woody rough, (Seecfo buried 

 in pulp, oblong, compressed; cotyledons thick, fleshy, radicle pointing 

 away from the hiluin. 



1. r. ZSlephantum, Con-ea; Roxb,. Cor. PI. t. 141 ; Flor. Ind. ii. 411 ; 

 W. (b A. Frodr.dQ; Wt.I.e.t. 15; Bale. &'Gihs. Bomb. Fl. 30; Wall. 

 Cat. 6380 ; JBrandis For. Flor. 56. Cratava Vallanga, Kaenig mss. 



Throughout India, in dry situations, from the Panjab eastward and southward to 

 Ceylon; wild or cultivated, ascending to ISOO ft. in the W. Himalayas. 



A small deciduous glabrous tree, head ovoid. Leaves smelling of aniseed ; spines 

 strong straight axillary. Xea/?c<s 5-7, cuneate or obovate, tip crenate. Mowers {io. 

 diam., dull-red, S and ? often in the same panicle; pedxmcle and pedicels pubescent. 

 Fruit 24 in. diam., pulp edible. — The Elephant or Wood-apple- 



23. SG-XiE, Correa. 



Spinous trees, icares alternate, 3-foliolate; leaflets membranous, sub- 

 crenulate. Flowers large, white, in axillary panicles. Cali/x small, 

 4-5-topthed, deciduous. Fetals 4-5, spreading, imbricate. Stamens nume- 

 rous, inserted round an inconspicuous disk, filaments short subulate; 

 anthers elongate, erect. Ovary ovoid, axis broad, cells S-2(), peripheral ; 

 style short, stigma capitate oblong or fusiform deciduous, ovules numerous 

 2-seria;te. _ Fruit large, globose, ovoid or reniform, 8-15-celled ; cells many- 

 seeded, rind ,woody. Seeds numerous, in aromatic pulp, oblong, com- 

 pressed, testa woolly and mucous.— Disteib. Species 2-3, tropical Asiatic 

 and African. 



1. A. nXarxneloB, Correa; Roxb. Cor. Fl. t. 143; Fl. Ind. ii. 579; 

 W. S A. Prodr. 96; Wight Ic. t. 16 ; Beddome Fl. Sylv. 1. 161 ; WaM. Gat. 



