Caballia.] RHIZO prober. 333 



A glabrous succulent perennial herb, 1-4 ft. high. Leaves spathulate- 

 oblong, crenate ; lower ones up to 10 in. long ; upper 3-4 in. long, dis- 

 tant, narrower, sometimes 3-foliolate, sessile. Flowers clear-yellow, in 

 corymbs or elongated panicles ; lower bracts like the upper leaves, 

 becoming smaller upwards. Calyx divided nearly to the base, in fruit 

 often I in. wide ; lobes elongate, triangular from a broad base. 



Dehra Dun. Distrii;. Trop. Himalaya from Kashmir to Bhutan, up to 

 3,000 ft. ; also in Burma, the warmer parts of China and in Java. The 

 plant is said to be poisonous to goats and not eaten by cattle. The 

 leaves and the expressed juice of this plant are used medicinally. 



XLVII.-RHIZOPHORE^. 



Teees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, usually stipulate, and coriaceous, 

 glabrous ; stipules inter-petiolar, very caducous. Flowers axillary, 

 usually 2-sexual. Calyx r.sualiy more or less adnate to tbe ovary ; limb 

 produced beyond the ovary, 4-14lobed ; lobes valvate, persistent. 

 Petals equal in number to the sepals, entire emarginate 2-fid or 

 lacerate. Stamens usually twice the number of petals, in pairs 

 opposite to and embraced by them ; anthers usually 2-celled. Ovary 

 5-1-celled by solution of septa ; styles usually connate ; ovules 

 usually 2 in each cell, pendulous. Fruit coriaceous, mostly in dehis- 

 cent, 1 ceiled, l-seeded. Seed pendulous, arillate or not; albumen 

 fleshy or 0, embryo often germinating while the frait is still on the 

 tree. — Species 70, usually on the muddy shores of the estuaries of 

 rivers in the tropics. 



KARALLIA, Roxb. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii, 439. 



Trees and shrubs. Leaves petiolate, ovate or elliptic. Peduncles 

 short, rather thick. Flowers small, in short 3-chotomous axillary 

 branching cymes, sessile and often crowded. Calyx-tube minutely 

 bracteate at the base ; limb 5-8-lobed, campanulate ; lobes erect, short, 

 valvate. Petals 5-8, inserted on the margin of a crenulated disk 

 lining the calyx-tube, clawed, orbicular, 2-fid or entire, subserrate or 

 lacerate at the apex. Disk epigynous, 10-16-lobed. Stamens in- 

 serted with the petals, filaments filiform ; anthers small, oblong. 

 Style subulate or filiform. Fruit small, globose, coriaceous, l-celled, 

 1-seeded. Seed globose, reniform ; testa fibrous. — Species about 12, 

 inhabiting Trop. Asia, Madagascar and Australia. 



