RUBIACEA, 169° 
RUBIACEA. 
ANTHOCEPHALUS CADAMBA, Miz. 
_ Fig.—Bedd. Hl. Sylv. 127, t. 35 ; Korth. Verh. Nat. Gesch. 
dot. 154, ¢. 48. Wild Cinchona (Eng.). 
Hab. ‘egos to Ceylon, wild or cultivated. The fruit 
bark. 
ernacular.—Kadamb (Hind., Beng.), Kalamb, Nhyu (Mar.), 
-kadamba (Tam.), Kadambe (Tel.), Kadavala-mara (Can.). 
History, Uses, &c.—This tree is sacred to KAli or 
ti, the consort of Siva; it is the Arbor Generationis of the 
tha Kunbis, and a branch of it,is brought into the house 
he time of their marriage ceremonies. The tree is planted 
villages and temples, and is held to be sacred. In Sans- 
it is called Kadamba or Kalamba, and has also many 
ynonyms, such as Sisu-pala, ‘protecting children’; Hali-priya, 
wr to agriculturists,” &e. The Kadamba Blossoms at the 
of the hot season, and its night-scented flowers form a 
globular, lemon-coloured head, from which the white 
bed stigmas project. They are compared by the Indian 
s to the cheek of a maiden mantling with pleasure at the 
roach of her lover, and are supposed to have the power 
irresistably attracting lovers to one another. This idea. 
.” ‘Kama wields now-a-days a bow armed with the ons 
s of the Kadamba.” The flowers are fabled to impregnate 
honey the water which collects in holes in the trunk of 
28. _ Beal, in his Catena of Buddhist scriptures from the 
2 Sutra, 
IL.— 
