84 DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA, Gmelina, 
late. Perisperm none. Embryo erect, Cotyledons conform 
to the seed. adicle small, inferior. vt 
2. G. arborea, Roxb. Abe pl. 
Arboreous, unarmed, Leaves opposite, cordate, entire, 
hoary underneath, Panicles terminal. 
Cumbula, Rheed, Mal, i,t. 41. | 
Gumbharee, the Sanscrit name of the tree. 
Beng, Gumar, Goombar,. |)... 4 
Hind, Joogani-chookur, 
Teling. Tagoomooda, 
Tam. Goomadee, 
A large timber tree, a native of the mountainous. parts, of 
India. Flowering time the beginning of the hot season... 
Trunk Pesbbriicas _ Bark ash-coloured, in yout ll 
th. Branches numerous, spreading in every direction, so 
forn i tacealeds head, Leaves opposite, petioled, cor- 
date, pointed, entire, with the upper surface smooth, and the 
under one hoary, from four toten inches long, and from two — 
to six or seven broad; at the.base where it joins the petiole, 
there are two, three, or four very conspicuous glands, Petioles 
round, villous, two or three inches long. .Panic/es terminal, 
ovate, composed of expanding decussated, downy racemes. 
Bractes lanceolate, downy, deciduous at an early period, 
Flowers opposite, drooping, large, yellow, tinged with 
brown, Calyx small, obscurely five-toothed, villous on the — 
outside. Corol campanulate. Border four-parted, the upper — 
three segments shorter; the lower or middle one bifid. Fi- 
laments two pairs; the ledaest considerably incurved, .Au-— 
thers bifid. Germ round, four-celled,, with one oyulum 
‘in each, attached to the top of the axis. Sty/e.as long as the 
stamen. Stigma bifid, one of the lobes much longer and 
recurved, Drupe oval, smooth, when ripe yellow, of the size 
of adamson. Nut four-celled, thavehit rarely benpens.that: 
the fourare fertile. ss 
The wood of this tree. APOE ARCELOR cen 
