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4 to 8-flowered. Flowers diceceous, pedicelled. Sepals 4, ronifomi, 
tomcntose internally. Male flower with a circle of glands outside the 
numerous stamens ; pistil none. Female jlower with a sub-entire flattish 
fleshy disc at the baae of the globular glabrous ovary : styles 6 to 8, 
distinct to their bases, stout, spreading : stigmas discoid with a mesial 
groove. Fruit sub-globular, *5 to *75 in. long, its pericarp succulent, 
when dry 6-8 ridged : Hook. fil. PI. Br. Ind. I, 192, Cios in Ann. Sc. Nat. 
Ser. iv. Vol. 8, p. 216., Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. 2, 104. F. cataphracta, 
Bl (not of Roxb.) Bijdr. 55, (probably). 
Perak, Common at low elevations. Malacca, Griffith. Distrib. 
Burmah, Sumatra and the Malayan Archipelago generally; Philippines. 
This species is badly represented in collections and is not well under- 
stood, all published descriptions of it being very brief. Clos diagnoses 
it by its having 5 sepals; but I do not find that this character holds at 
all. It approaches F. inermis, Roxb. very closely in foliage and fruit. 
According to Roxburgh, who originally described F. inermis from plants 
from the Moluccas cultivated at Calcutta, its flowers are hermaphrodite ; 
and in that respect they differ from those of the other species of the germs. 
The only authentic specimens of F. inermis which I have seen wore 
cultivated in the Bot. Garden, Calcutta, and these aro undoubtedly her- 
maphrodite. The styles are moreover very short and united, and the 5 
stigmas form a radiating star on the apex of the ovary, each stigma being 
cutieato-omavginatc. T lie stigmas of F. Ruhim are quite different; in- 
asmuch as they are discoid and the styles aro distinct to the very base. 
Forbes's Sumatra specimens No. 1206 a appear to belong to inermis, 
and they are the only uncultivated ones which I have seen. Tho fruit of 
Rukam as well as of inermis is eatable, although sour. I have not seeu 
an authentic specimen of Blume's F. catapkracta; but I can readily belie vo 
that it is F. Unlearn, which is a common Jtalnyan plant. The plants issued 
as Wall. Cat. 6673 belong (as regards many of the sheets) in my 
opinion to this, and not to F. inermis, Roxb. 
2. Flacourtia Cataphracta, Roxb. in Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 830 ; Cor. 
PI. iii. t. 222 j Fl. Ind. iii. 834. A small tree, often thorny when young. 
Branchlcts glabrous, lenticollate. Leaves membranous, oblong or ob- 
long-lanceolate, bluntly acuminate (the older sometimes blunt) obscurely 
crenate-sorrate, narrowed to the base ; both surfaces glabrous, shining ; 
the 3-4 pairs of nerves thin, sub-erect ; tho reticulations minute; length 
3 to 4 in., breadth 1*25 in., petiole 3 in. Flowers in axillary racemes 
shorter than the leaves, small, ('15 in. diam.) ; ovary flask-shaped ; 
stigmas 4-6) capitate. Fruit the size of an olive, purple. Hook. fil. Fl. 
Br. Ind. I, 193, Clos. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. IV, Vol. 8, p. 216 (not of 
Roth, lilume, or Dalzell), F. Jangomas, Gmel. Syst., Miq, Fl. Ind. 
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