Caseaeia.] SAMYDACE^. 35^ 



small, axillary, shoitly pedicelled, densely fascicled or in long simple 

 or panicled racemes. Calyx coriaceous, persistent ; tube short, free, 

 or longer and adnate to the base ol the ovary ; limb 3-7-fid. 

 IPetals as many as the calyx-lobes or 0, perigynous, imbricated. 

 Stamens few or many, often with s-taminodes between or united in a 

 tube with them. Ovary superior or ^ superior, 1-celled ; style" 1, 

 capitate or 2-fid., or styles 2-5 ; ovules nsually many ; placentas 

 •asnally 3, parietal. Jbruit loculicidally 2-o- (usually 3-) valved, 

 , valves carrying the seeds on the medial line. ;S'eec?5 many or few, 

 oblong or annular, albumen usually drilled. — Species about 180, 

 mostly in tropical regions of the globe, rarely in the subtropical, 



CASEARIA, Jacq. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii, 591. 



Shrubs or small trees. Leaves alternate, distichous, petioled, 

 undivided, entire or sligbtly serrate, often minutely punctate beneath ; 

 stipules small, lateral, caducous. Flowers small, greenish-yellow, 

 clustered in the axils (in the Indian species) ; pedicels short, jointed 

 above their base, surrounded by small scales. Calyx inferior, deeply 

 4-5-lobed ; lobes imbricate, obtuse, persistent. Petals 0. Stamens 

 usually definite, united in a tube with staminodes alternating with 

 the free portion of the filaments ; staminal tube hypogynous, some- 

 times very short. Ovary free, ovoid, 1-celled ; style simple ; stigma 

 capitate or 3-fid ; ovules many, parietal. Capsule succulent, globose 

 or ovoid, ellipsoid, somewhat 3-angular or 6-ribbed when dry, 3- 

 rarely 2-valved. Seeds many, angular or obovoid with a fleshy 

 usually coloured aril.— Species 140, in the warmer parts of the whole 

 globe, especially in America. 



Leaves glabrescent, stipules about \ in. 

 long 1. Q. graveolens. 



Leaves tomentose, stipules minute . . 2. C, tomentosa. 



1. C. graveolens, Dalz.; D. ^ G. Bomb. Fl. 11; Brand.- For. Fl. 243 ; 

 F.B.I.ii,592 ; iVatt E. D.—YeTu. Chilli, nara or narha (Dehrsb Dun), 

 naro (Bijnor). 



A shrub or small tree, with dark-grey bark speckled with white ; hranchlets 

 glabrous. Leaves 4-8 in, long, shortly stalked, elliptic, obtuse or shortly 

 acute, rounded or acute at the base, crenate, glabrescent; stipules 

 about -5 in. long,' deciduous. Flowers clustered in the axils of the leaves, 

 foetid ; pedicels jointed near the base, pubescent below the joint, glabrous 

 above. Calyx .5-lobed, pubescent at the base. Stamens 8, alternating 

 with hairy scale-like staminodes. Capsule f in., 3-valved, ellipsoid, 

 glabrous, shining, 1 2-seeded. 



