u\spi(loitterys.'\ 



19. MALPIOIIIACE^R. 



55 



Pciniclcs large, rusty- tomentoso. Samaras without a 

 wiiij^ed kool opposite tlie nucleus. 



Leaves glabrous beneath. Samaras linear, oblong ... 1. A. Roxhvrghiana. 

 Leaves white tomentose beneath. Samaras orbicular. 2. A. cordaia. 

 Flowers axillary, few fascicled, Kamaras dorsally 



winged, tiuncate or lobed at the apex A, canarensis, 



1. A. Roxburghiana, A. Juss. in Archiv. Mus. Hist. Nat. III. 511 ; FL 

 Br. I. 1. 420 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 33. HircEa indica^ Roxb. Fl. I. 2. 

 U. 



Sikkim Himalaya, Burma, W. Peninsula, Carnatic, Orissa and the 

 Konkau (Kliandalla Ghat and the Konkans), Dalz. ; absent from N. 

 Kanara. 



2. A. cordata, A. Jnss. ArcMv.Mus.Nat. Hist. III. 513 ; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 34 ; Fl. Br. I. 1. 421. 



Western Peninsula, Konkan, Kinara and Mysore. Common tbrough- 

 out the Konkan and North Kanara in moist forests. Fl. Sept.-Oct. 

 Fr. C. S. 



3. A. canarensis, Dalz. in Hook. Kew Journ. Bot. III. 87 ; Fl. Br. I. 

 I. 420. 



Sir J. Hooker united A. glomeratay Wgt., with this species. The 

 plate No. 1986 of the Icones Plant, represents the inflorescence in many 

 flowered fascicles on thick peduncles or without any peduncles at all ; 

 also without bracts or bracteoles. Western Peninsula from N. Kanara to 

 Malabar. In N. Kanara I have found it along the Ghats in evergreen 

 forests from Diggi to Gairsoppah, but nowhere abundant. ^"1. March. Fr. 

 May. A very distinct species. 



Order 20. GERANIACE^. 



Herbs, rarely trees. Leaves opposite or alternate. Flowers her- 

 maphrodite. Sepals 5, rarely 4 or more. Petals as many as the 

 sepals or 0. Torus with 5 glands alternating with the petals. Sta- 

 mens as many or double or treble the sepals. Ovary o£ 3-5 carpels 

 united with the axis as far as the insertion of the ovules, sometimes 

 lengthened into a style or styles, free or united ; ovules 1-2, rarely 

 more. Fruit capsular or berried. Seeds pendulous or horizontal ; 

 albumen 0, embryo straight or curved ; cotyledons flat. 



AVERRHOA, Linn. 



Trees. Leaves imparipinnate. Flowers small, regalar. Sepals 5. 

 Petals 5. Stamens 10 or 5 and 5 staminodes. Ovary 6-lobed, 5- 

 celled, without a beak ; styles 5, distinct^ stigmas capitate, ovules 

 many in the cells. Berry oblong, 5-lobed. Seed with or without 

 an arillus, albumen scanty, embryo straight. 



Leaflets glabrous and glaucous beneath ... ... \, A. Caramhola. 



Leaflets pubescent beneath ... ... ... 2. A. Bilimhi. 



1, A. Oaramhola, Linn,; DC, Prod. L C>SO ; Fl. Br. I. 1. 439 ; Braudis. 



