ads 
often showy. Sepals 4, free, imbricate in 2 series, or 2 outer subvalvate. 
Petals 4, Bessile, imbricate. Stamen* indefinite, inserted on the torus at 
tho base of tbe long gynophore. Ovary stalked, 1 to 4-celled j stigma 
sessile ; ovules many, on 2 to 6 parietal placentas. Fruit flea by, rarely 
bursting by valves. Seeds many, imbedded in pulp, testa crustaceous 
or coriaceous ; cotyledons convolute. — Distrib. Species 125, natives of 
all warm climates, except N. America. 
Synopsis of Species. 
Fruit globose or sub-glcbose. 
Flowers solitary, axillary ... ... 1. 0. Larutensis. 
„ umbellate ... ... ... 2. G. sepiaria. 
„ racemose ... ... ... 3. 0. Scortechinii. 
Flowers supra- axillary, in rows of 2 or 3. 
Leaves 3 to 4 in. long ... ... 4. O. micracantha. 
„ 5 to 7 in. long... ... 5. G. pitbijlora. 
Fruit mucb elongate, eucuinbor-shaped. 
Fruit 4 to 7 in. long ... ... 6. G. F inlay soniana. 
„ 3 in. long. ... ... ,.. 7. 0. cwinrbitina. 
1. C. Larutensis, King, n. sp. Scan dent, the young branches and 
petioles densely covered with minute, rusty, sub-deciduous, tomeutum. 
Stem sub-striate ; prickles in pairs, sbort, booked. Leaves glabrous, 
coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate, obm.se or rciusc, Uie. midrib prominent, 
the 5 or G pairs of nerves obscure ; length 1 to 1'25 in., breadth 4 in., 
petiole % in. Flower-pedicels solitary, glabrous, more than half as long 
as the leaves. Flowers *75 in. in diam., whito to pink. Sepals flesby, 
glabrous, the outer pair ovate; the inner rotund, concave. Petals oblong, 
glabrous. Stamens about 12. Gynopbore slender, nearly 2 in. long. 
Fruit globose, with an apical beak. 
Perak, at Laroot, on trees. King's Collector, No. 5103. 
A woody climber, 30 to 40 feet long. The petals change from 
white to pink. Ripe fruit is unknown. This must be near G. erythro- 
dasys, Miq. 
2. C. SEi'iAHiA, Linn. A scrambling shrub. Branches divaricate, 
with rathor distant pairs of short recurved thorns, sub-striate, the younger 
puberulous. Leaves membranous, shortly petiolato, ovato to oblong, pubes- 
cent or giabresceut, nerves 4 or 5 pairs. Flowers t '35 to '5 in. in diam., in 
terminal umbels, the pedicels slender, '5 in long; bads globose. Sepals 
oblong. Petals narrow, wbite. Ovary apieulate, gynopbore '25 to "5 in. 
long. Fruit pisiform, black. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 177: Miq. Fl. 
Iud. Bat. i. pfc. 2, 101 : DC. Prod. i. 247 ; Uoxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 568 j W. & A. 
Prod. 26 : Camb. in Jacq. Voy. Bot. t. 22 i Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Flora, 
10 : Kurz. For. Fl. Burm. i. 6(3. 
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