Carissa
(probably a native Indian name, in Mahratta, Korinda). ORD. Apocynaceae. A genus of stove shrubs and trees. Flowers white; peduncles aillary and terminal, many-flowered, everywhere becoming sterile and spinescent. Leaves opposite, furnished with intrapetiolar bristles. They are best grown in a compost of peat and loam. Cuttings of ripe wood will strike if placed in sand, under a glass, in bottom heat. They are of economical value in their native countries.
C. Carandas (Carandas). fl. milky-white, Jasmine-like; corymbs terminal and axillary, few-flowered. July. l. ovate, mucronate, or elliptic, obtuse, glabrous; spines often two-forked. Sub-ar-boreous. h. 15ft. to 20ft. India, 1790. (L. B. C. 663.) C. grandiflora (large-flowered).* fl. white, fragrant, salver-shaped, 2in. across. May. l. deep green; spines axillary, forked. Natal, 1862. (B. M. 6307.) C. spinarum (spiny). fl. white; petals lanceolate; peduncles terminal, four to five-flowered. August to December. l. small, ovate, acute, veiny, shining. Branches dichotomous; spines, two at each ramificaton opposite, the one above the branch and the other below it, red at top, and shining. h. 20ft. India. 1809 (L. B. C. 162.) C. Xylopicron (bitter-wooded). fl. white; petals acute; peduncles lateral, spiny, one to two-flowered. July. l. ovate, acuminated, glabrous, three to five-nerved. Branches forming a pyramidal cyme. h. 20ft. Bourbon, 1820.