Gme/ina.'] VerbeuacecT. 355 



with I ovule in each cell, style slender, stigma bifid; drupe 



succulent, stone bony, 2-4-celled and -seeded. — Sp. 8; 5 in 



Fl. B. Ind. 



L. over 3 in., white with woolly-pubescence be- 

 neath; cal.-segm. 5 i. G. arborea. 



L. under 2 in., glabrous beneath ; cal.-segm. 4 2. G. asiatica. 



I. G-. arborea, Roxb. Cor. PI. iii. 41 (1819). Et-demata, S. 



Moon Cat. 45. G. Rheedei, Hk., Thw. Enum. 244. C. P. 128. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iv. 581. Wight, Ic. t. 1470. Bot. Mag. t. 4395 {G. Rheedii). 

 Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 253. 



A large-spreading tree, bark greyish-yellow, rather rough, 

 thick, branchlets and young parts covered with a very fine, 

 white mealy pubescence; 1. articulated, 3-7 in., broadly ovate, 

 rounded or cordate at base, acuminate, acute, entire, glabrous 

 above when mature, densely woolly-pubescent beneath with 

 pale yellowish stellate hair, veins prominent beneath, where 

 also at the base below the lowest pair of veins are 2 large 

 pits or glands, petiole 3-5 in., cylindrical, puberulous; fl. large, 

 numerous, on short hairy ped. in small stalked cymes of 3, 

 arranged in a narrowly pyramidal, hairy, terminal panicle, 

 bracts linear, buds clavate, angular; cal.-segm. 5, small, 

 densely tomentose; cor. \\ in., densely hairy outside, lobes 

 spreading or recurved, lowest one much longest, projecting 

 forwards, ovate, obtuse; drupe about i in., ovoid or pyriform, 

 smooth, orange-yellow, stone ovate-ovoid. 



Moist region up to 5000 ft.; rather common, but often cultivated. 

 Fl. March; 4 upper lobes dull orange-pink, lower one lemon-yellow. 



Also in India, Burma, Malaya, and Philippine Is. 



The flowers suggest a Bignoniaceous plant. They appear along with 

 the young foliage, the tree being deciduous. Wood yellowish-white, even- 

 grained, light, strong, tough, and durable ; an e.xcellent timber. The bark 

 and the fruit are employed as medicine in bilious fevers. 



2. G-. asiatica, L. Sp. PL 626 (1753). Demata, .5". Kumil, T. 



Herm. Mus. 3. Fl. Zeyl. n. 230. Moon Cat. 45. Thw. Enum. 244. 

 C. P. 1952. 



Fl. B. Ind. iv. 582. Wight, 111. t. 174. 



A much-branched bush, bark yellowish-white, smooth, 

 branchlets horizontal, rigid, often compressed, puberulous, 

 frequently much shortened and spinous at the end; 1. small, 

 f-if in., oval, acute or rounded at base, obtuse, entire, 

 glabrous on both sides, paler and dotted with minute white 

 glands beneath, petiole \-l in.; fl. large, nodding on short 

 pubescent ped., in terminal racemes or panicles, bracts small, 

 deciduous; cal. somewhat contracted at mouth, pubescent, 

 with several large flattened oval glands on the upper part, 



