HiPPOCKATBi.] BHAMNE^. 161 



l_yiug in tlie grooTes of the ovary. Disk conical or cupnlar. Ovary 

 surrounded by the disk, 3-celled ; style very short or ; stigmas 1-3 ; 

 ovules 2-10 in each cell, in 2 series, inserted on the inner angle. 

 Fruit of 1-3 flattened carpels connate at the base, usually dehiscent. 

 Seeds compressed, usually winged below, esalbuminous. — Species 65- 

 70, natives of the tropics of both hemispheres. 



K. arborea, Ro^h. Hort. Beng. 5 ; FL Ind. i, 66; Brand. For. Fl. 83; F. 

 B. I. i, 625. Yem. Kochra (,Gonda). 



A large glabrous climber with flexuose branches. Leaves 4-7 in. long, 

 ovate or ovate-oblong, shortly acuminate, serrulate ; petiole \ in. long ; 

 main lateral nerves 6-8 pairs, arcuate. Floivers yellow, m axillary pedun- 

 culate cymes Eipe cartels 1-3, at the end of terminal peduncles, obovate- 

 oblong, acute at both ends, 3 in. long and 1^ in. broad, thickly coriaceous, 

 with numerous prominent longitudinal nerves. Seeds 2, the wing tawny, 

 ovate, 1| in. long, smooth, corky ; cotyledons fleshy, greenish-yellow. 



Abundant in the , forest of Bahraich and Gonda in N. Oudh, climbing 

 over the largest trees and enveloping them with its heavy foliage. 

 DiSTBiB. : Bhutan andKhasia Mts. (Grifl&th), Morung Mts. (Hamilton). 

 Flowers in June and July, and the fruit ripens during the following 

 April. 



XXXVI.-RHAMNEiE. 



Teees, or erect or scandent shrubs (cirrhose in Gouania and 

 Selinus). Branches often spinous or aculeate. Leaves simple, 

 alternate (opposite or sub-opposite in Sageretia). stipules small, 

 deciduous, or changed into prickles. Flowers small, green or yellow, 

 usually in axillary cymes, often 1-sexual. Calyx 4-5-tid. ; lobes trian- 

 gular, usually keeled within, valvate, Fetals 4-5 or 0, inserted on 

 the throat of the calyx-tube, usually shorter than the lobes of the 

 calyx. Dish annular, cupular, or filling or coating the calyx-tube. 

 Stamens 4-5, inserted with the petals and opposite to them, and often 

 inclosed within their folds ; anthers versatile. Ocary free or im- 

 mersed in the disk, free or more or less adherent to the calyx-tube, 

 usually 3-celled, with 1 ovule in each cell. Fruit free, or girt at the 

 base or middle by the adhering calyx-tube, usually indehisoent, 

 sometimes winged. xS'eec? rarely without albumen.— Species over 400, 

 inhabiting tropical and temperate partis of the world. 



Fruit dry, indehiscent, winged, 1-celled ; ovary 

 ^-inferior or nearly superior. A woody 

 climber 1. Ventilago. 



