rCACINACE^ 23- 



white flowers. Leaves 2 to 3 feet ; leaflets glossy ; 

 ovate acute 2 to 6 inches long. Panicles I foot or more. 

 Calyx 1/16 inch. Corolla li inch. Fruit oblong, i to 

 ij^ inches; seeds winged. 



Nilgiris: Wild or planted, here and there on the plateau— 

 Kotagiri, Coonoor. 



ICACINACEit. 



See Vol. I p. 74. 



KEY TO THE GENERA. 



r Flowers in large terminal cymose corymbs .... b 



\ Flowers axillary, few ; petals lightly united, gomphandra. 



^ I Anthers divided at the base ; embryo small. . apodytes. 



\ Anthers oblong, embryo large ; flowers often foetid, mappia. 



GOMPHANDRA f.b.i. xxxix. 



A small genus of under ten species, natives of tropical 

 Asia. 



Gomphandra coriacea Wt. ; F.B.I. i 586 in part. A 

 small tree or shrub with young branches, and both sides 

 of leaves, all equally green. Leaves variable, elliptic or 

 obovate, glabrous. Flowers solitary or in few-flowered 

 cymes, in the axils or outside them, greenish white. 

 Calyx minute. Petals erect, 1/6 inch, irregularly con- 

 nate into a tube, tips inflexed. Stamens with very thick 

 filaments and small anthers pendulous from the inside. 

 Ovary oblong as long as the filaments, surmounted by 

 the large lobed stigma, without style. Fruit pale clear 

 yellow, about 2 inches long, with the 5-angled stigma 1/8 

 inch, wide at the top. Stone with wrinkled skin. 

 Seed with raphe completely round from top to bottom. 



t. 304. Wt. Ic. 953, 954. 



Nilgiris : on the outskirts of heavy sholas, 3,000 to 6,000 

 feet, Coonoor, etc. Pulneys at Kodaikanal and below, Fyson^ 

 4826, 6339. 



Gen. Dist. Western Ghats. 



