682 XXXIX. OLACiNE^. (Maxwell T. Masters.) {Sdhiepfia. 



2. S. acuminata, Wall. Cat. 486; leaves oblong-lanceolate acute, 

 flowers \ in. 



Sii.nET and the Khasia Mts., "WaUich, ha.\ Mibhmi Hills, Griffith. 



A tree. Young branches angular. Leaves 6 by l|-2 in., glabrous, very acute at the 

 apex, less so at the base ; petiole ^ in. Pedicels \ in. Mpicalyx cup-shaped, scarcely 

 l(jbed. Corolla 4 in., yellow, fragrant, tubnlar-catnpanulate, limb 5-lobed ; lobes valvate, 

 o?ate-aoute, hairy within. /Stamens and ovary as in S. fragrans. — This differs from 

 tS.fragrans in its broader leaves, shorter pedicels, and much larger flowers; 



In the herharium are specimens from Griffith collected in Bhotan (n. 1819), which 

 are very imperfect, but which apparently belong to a third species of Schcepfia, charac- 

 terized by short ovate or oblong-acute leaves, with closer venation than in 8. fragrans 

 or S. acuminata. 



9. CAITSJXSXtA, Juss. 



Climbing shrubs, sometimes spiny. Leaves alternate, shortly petioled, 

 l-nerved. Flowers bracteate, in dense axillary spikes, monocklamy- , 

 deous, hermaphrodite. Perianth regular, 4-5-parted, lobes valvate. Fertih 

 stamens as many as the lobes of the perianth, and opposite to them, fila- 

 ments glabrous, free, or adnate at the base to a thickened disk ; anthers 

 small, oblong, adnate, 2-celled, dehiscing longitudinally. Staminodes (glands 

 of disk) 4-5, tiypogynous, alternate with the stamens, ovoid or subtriangular, 

 fleshy. Oiiarysuperior, ovoid-conical, 1-celled; style cylindric, stigma capitate 

 4-lobed, lobes alternating with the fertile stamens ; ovule solitary, pendu- 

 lous. i''rm< drupaceous, surrounded at the base by the marcescent perianth ; 

 stone bony. Seed solitd,ry, erect, roundish ; embryo in the upper part of the 

 fle.shy albumen, radicle superior, cotyledons sometimes 3 very long plano- 

 convex. — DiSTKiB. Species 3-4, natives of Tropical Asia, and Australia. 



In the description of the ovary and seed I have followed GrifSth, as my observations 

 coincide with his. Bentham finds a true calyx, which others have not been able to see, 

 nor have I been able to detect one. Miers says the ovary ia 4-celled at the base, but I 

 have only seen it 1-celled, as Ben: ham describes it. Many authors, including Meissner 

 and Miers, place this genus in Thymelacece, an arrangement I myself prefer, but in 

 delaulUof more certainty as t» the real structure of the flower, the genus is here retained 

 in Olacinece. 



1. C. Bheedil, Gmel. Syst. i. 280 ; leaves glabrous ovate or oblong- 

 lanceolate, spikes axillary solitary or twin. Wall. Oat. 1043, B • Wight Ic. 

 t. 1861 ; Bedd. Flor. Syhat. Anal. Gen. t. xxvi. ; Thwaites Enwm. 251 ; 

 Brandis. For. Flor. 75. C. scandens, Roxb. Cor. PI. 103 ; Fl. Ind. i. 441. 

 C. malabarica, Lamk. Diet. iii. 433. C. zizyphifolia, Grif. Notul. iv. 360, 

 t. 537, f. 1. C. martabanica. Wall. Gat. 7266. Salvadora persica, Wall. Cat. 

 1042, not of Linn. Olax t sumatrana, Mip[. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. i. 342. 

 Opilia amentacea, Wall. Gat 2331. Struthiola scandens, Wall. Gat. 2331.— 

 llheede Hort. Mai. vii. t. 2, 4. 



Upper Gansetio plauj, in forests of Oude ; WEaTERH Peninsula, from the Concan 

 and Dekkan southwards. Eastern Peninsula, iu Martaban and Malacca.— Distrib. 

 Indian Archipelago, Hong Kong, N. Australia. 



A climbing evergreen shrub. Brandies divaricate sometimes spiny, younger ones, 

 as well as the inflorescence petioles and tube of flower, pubescent. Leaves Ij-S by 

 1-1. i in., coriaceous, yellowish and rugose when dry, base rounded, sometimes oblique ; 

 nerves depressed, arching, evanescent towards the apex ; petiole jV-J i"- Spikes about 

 1 in., dense, many-flowered. Bracfs minute. Flowers yellow. Perianth ^-J in., 

 iirceolate, limb 4-5-parted. Fruit J-f in., ellipsoid or ovoid, orange-red, surmounted 

 by the remains of the style. 



