HOLMSKJCELDIA. 321 



XXII. HOLMSKJCELDIA Retz, Obs. VI, 31. (1791); 

 Schaaec. DC, Prodr. XI, 696; Engl. u. Prantl. Nat. Pfl. 

 fam. IV, 3a, 176; Hook f., Fl. Br. Ind. IV, 596; King 

 and Gamble. Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, LXXIV, 4, 795. — 

 Shrubs; young parts glabrous or whitish-hairy; leaves 

 opposite, simple; cymes short, axillary, often crowded at 

 the tips of the branches, with small bracts; calyx with 

 very short tube, widely obconical, membranous, coloured, 

 subtruncate or indistinctly 5-lobed; corolla with cylindric, 

 curved tube, oblique limb and 5 unequal lobes, one larger; 

 stamens 4, didynamous, inserted in the inferior half of the 

 corolla-tube or about the middle of it, exserted; anthers 

 with parallel fissures; style slender, with shortly bifid 

 stigma; ovary 4-celled, 4-ovuled; ovules laterally attached; 

 drupe with 4 (or by abortion 3 — 1) pyrenes. 



Distribution: Himalaya, Africa, Madagascar. 



1. H. sanguinca Retz. Obs. VI, 31 (1791); Schauer, 

 DC. Prodr. XI, 696; HooA: f.. Fl. Br. Ind. IV, 596; 

 King and Gamble. Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, LXXIV. 4, 

 795; Hall, f., Med. 's Rijks Herb. Leid. no. 37, 84. — 

 A shrub, 3 — 10 M. high; leaves petioled, ovate, acuminate, 

 base obtuse; somewhat pubescent, entire or denticulate, 

 7V2 by 5 cM.; petioles 1,3 cM.; cymes 2V2— 5 cM., 

 puberulous, red, becoming scarlet in fruit; calyx red. large, 

 obconical; corolla red, 2V2 cM. long, 0.4 cM. wide; 

 5temens. glabrous; style glabrous; ovary glandular; drupe 

 0.6—0.8 cM. in diam. 



Distribution: subtropical Himalaya, 0—1330 M., Prome 

 Hills, Penang (Curtis no. 2872). — Often cultivated, and 

 sometimes escaped. 



Tribe III. CARYOPTERIDOIDE^. 



XXIII. PERONEMA Jack, in Malay Misc., II, no. 

 VII, 46, (1822); Benth. and HooA:., Gen. PI. II, 2. 1158; 



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