ChasaNa.] 



50. RuniACEy"E. 



19^ 



G. virgata, Talb. Syst. List of Trees otc. Bomb. 3st Ed. 1 14 Herb. No, 

 337 is not a new species and is therefore excluded from this list, 



20. LASIANTHUS, Jack. 



Shrubs or small trees. Leaves distichous. Stipules broad. 

 Plowers m axillary bracteate cluster cymes or heads. Calyx- tube 

 shorty limb 3-7-toothed. Corolla throat villous ; lobes 3-7, valvate iu 

 bud. Stamens 4-6, filaments short. Ovary 4-9-celled with 1 erect 

 basal ovule in each cell, style short or long, arms 3-9, short, obtuse. 

 Drupe small, pyrenes triquetrous, 1-seeded. Seeds narrow, testa 

 membranous, embryo terete, radicle inferior, slender. 



Cymes sessile. Corolla hairy without. Drupe ^ iu. black ... 1. L. sessilis. 

 Cymes peduncled. Corolla glabrous without. Drupe | in. blue. 2. L, vemdouss, 



L. sessilis, Talb. Syst. List Trees etc., 1894, p. 114, 



A stout gregarious evergreen shrub usually branched from the base, 

 nearly allied to L. strigosus, Wight., but differing in the calyx-teeth and 

 nervation of leaves. In the evergTeen forests of North Kanara from 

 Yellapiir southwards to Gairsoppah, common in the undergrowth of some 

 of the kans. Fl. Aug.-Sept. Fr. Oct.-Feb. 



L. venulosus. Wight, in Calc. Jour. Nat. Hist. VI. 608 ; Fl. Br. I. 3. 



190. Santia venulosa, W. & A. Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 114. 



A shrub with glabrous shoots. Flowers few, in peduncled cymes. On 

 the ghats, but very rare. Dalz. I have not seen this species. 



21. SAPROSMA, Blume. 



Foetid shrubs, often with bristles at the ends of the branches. 

 Leaves opposite or whorled, membranous. Stipules connate, 1-3, 

 cuspidate, deciduous. Flowers small, axillary or terminal. Calyx 

 tubeobconic; limb 4-6 divided, persistent. Corolla with a villous 

 throat; lobes 4-5, valvate. Stamens 4-5. Ovary 2-celled; style 

 filiform with two short arms ; ovules 1, erect, basal in each cell. 

 Drupe with 1-2., crustaceous pyrenes. Seeds ellipsoid and solitary 

 or 2, plano-convex, testa membranous ; radicle slender, inferior ; 

 cotyledons small. 



S. indicum, Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 112 ; Fl. Br. I. 3. 192. 



, Western Peninsula ; on the ghats from Bombay southwards. In the 

 evergreen forests of the Konkan and North Kanara. Common on the 

 southern ghats of North Kanara. Fruit bright blue, foetid. Seed solitary 

 Fl. C. S. Fr. ripe March. A large shrub. 



22. HAMILTONIA, Roxb. 



A hispid pubescent or glabrate, trichotomously branched under- 

 shrub. Leaves petioled, many-nerved. Flowers in large tricho- 

 tomous panicles. Calyx-tube ovoid, limb 5-divided. Corolla funnel- 



