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XXXV. EHAJ\i]SrACEiE 



[Srif/erefia 



dentate, ^~1 in. long, sec. n. 2-4 pair. Fl. panicles terminal and axillary. 

 Fr. black when ripe, sweet, sold in bazaars. 



Sincl, Snlaiman range Salt range. ISTortli-Wfst Himalaya, Indns to Jlielum, ascending 

 to 5,000 ft. Fl. and Fr. Jannary-May. Afghanistan, Ba'ncMstan, Persia, Arabia. 

 Closely allied is 4. S. theezans, Brongn. ; Collett Fl. Simla, fig. 80. Nortli-West 

 Himalaya, Upper Bnima, China, Tonkin (HanJcaht, Paiigi ; Zartum, Bnassliir). L. 

 larger, |-1^ in. long, perfectly glabrotis, both surfaces shining, lower pal Specimens 

 of ^S'. Brandreiliiana^ with small but perfectly glabrous leaves, are known from 

 Bind, Bahiohistan, Mnbcat and Arabia. Possibly this species should be tinited with 

 ;S^. tJieezans. 



6. SCUTIA, Comm. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 640. 

 Species about 8, tropics of both bemispberes. 



S. indica, Brongn. ; Wight 111. t. 73. — Syn. ;S^. Eheediana^ Wight Ic. t. 

 1071. Vern. Chimat, Mar. 



A straggling, glabrous sbrnb, armed with small sharp, curved spines. L. 

 coriaceous, shining, pale beneath, opposite or alternate, elliptic, ovate or 

 obovate, entire or faintly crenate. Fl. yellowish-green, in axillary few-fid. 

 umbels on short peduncles. Drupe nearly dry, J in. long, supported by the 

 persistent concave calyx tube. 



Western Peninsula, both on dry hills in the Deccan, and along the G-hats of the 

 Konkan, in Coorg and on the Nilgiris. Fl. Oct.-April. Ceylon, dry country. 



Hovenia dulcis, Tliunb. (Chmmm, Chamba) ; Brandis F. Fl. 94. A tree, unarmed, indi- 

 genous in China, cultivated in Kumaon, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan and Japan. L. alter- 

 nate, deciduous, ovate, from an unequal-sided base, serrate, acuminate, 3 prominent 

 basal nerves. The ramifications of the inflorescence swell into an irregularly and un- 

 evenly oblong fleshy mass, variously bent, which is sweet and aiomatic, the fruit 

 3-celled, 3-seeded, coriaceous, supported by tlie obconical calyx tube. 



7. COLUBRINA, Rich. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 642. 



Scandent or erect shrubs. L. alternate, penninerved, the lowest pair of 

 nerves basal. Calyx tube hemispherical, filled with the thick annular lobed 

 disk. Ovary immersed in the disk and confiuent with it, 3-celled, style 

 3-cleft. Fr. dry, 3-celled, tardily dehiscent, globose, base supported by the 

 persistent calyx tube. Species 15, the majority in tropical and subtropical 

 America. 



1. C. asiatica, Brongn. ; Wight 111. t. 74. Yern. Gtiti, Mar. 



A large unarmed spreading often 

 scandent shrub or small tree, entirely 

 glabrous. L. ovate fi-om a rounded 

 base, acuminate, crenate, blade li-2.V 

 in, petiole J-J in. Cymes axiUV. 

 few-fid., on short peduncles. Drupes 

 pale brown, J in. long. 



Western Ghats from the Ivonkan soutli- 

 ward, also on the coast. Sea-coast of 

 Lower Burma, Andamans, ISficobars. Fl. 

 February. Ceylon, Malay Peninsula and 

 Arcbipelago, China, New Guinea, Austra- 

 lia. 2. C. travancorica, Bedd. lo. PL Ind. 

 Or. 1. 188. Travancore, Cochin. A large 

 shrub, branclilets, petioles and young 

 leaves with rust-coloured pubescence. L. 

 ovate-oblong, 4-6 in. long. S. C. pubescens, 

 Kurz, Pegu, Martaban and Tenasserim. 

 Branclilets and leaves tawny-pubescent. 

 L. membranous, ovate-lanceolate, blade 

 Fig. 81. — Colubrina asiatica, Brongn. ^. li-2J, petiole J-J in. 



