Syn. Monetia tetracantha, G. Don.—M. barlerioides, L’Herit:
Roxb. flor. Ind. TIL. p. 765.
Engrav. L’Herit. Stirp. t. 1—Lam. 1. c. t. 807.—Wight 1. ec,
t. 153.
Sprc. Cuan. Dicecious, shrubby: branches opposite, tetragonal,
spreading, thorny: leaves opposite, petioled, acute, entire, smooth :
ne axillary, clustered, very shortly peduncled, yellow: berries,
white.
Peninsula, Dharwar. Flowering all the year.
ORDER CV. JASMINACEZ.
Flowers hermaphrodite, unsymmetrical; calyx persistent, 4-
8-toothed or lobed; corolla hypogynous, 1-petaled, 5~8-lobed,:
galver-shaped ; lobes imbricated in estivation, the two exterior


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ones twisted or valvate; stamens two, attached to the tube, izi=
cluse ; anthers 2-celled, introrse, bursting longitudinally; ovary
destitute of a hypogynous disk, 2-celled, 2-lobéed At the apex :
ovules ascending or amphitropous, 1-2, rarely more, in each
cell; style simplé; stigma 2-lobed; fruit bibaccate or capsular;
capsules 2-celled, bipartible, cells indehiscent; seed exalbumi-
nous or with spating albumen, testa often tumid; embryo
straight; radicle inferior—Erect or scandent shrubs: leaves
opposite, rarely alternate or often unequally pinnate, leaflets
3-5-7, or sometimes, by abortion of the lateral leafléts, reduced
to one, but then on a jointed petiole, indicating its compound
nature; flowers corymbosé or panicled; pedicels opposite, 1
bracteate: corolla white or yellow, often fragrant.
GENUS I. CHONDROSPERMUM.
