Ceitis?^ Urticacece. 8 1 



2. CZSIiTIS, Linn. 



Evergreen trees ; 1. bifarious, base 3-veined ; stip. free ; 

 fl. polygamous, cymose, green, fern, in upper axils, male 

 and bisexual usually in lower ; sep. 5, imbricate ; stam. 4-5, 

 fil. erect in bud, anth. small ; disk villous ; ov. sessile, 

 stigmas 2, slender or flattened, deciduous ; ovule pendulous ; 

 fr. an ovoid or globose drupe ; seed ovoid, endosperm scanty 

 or o, cotyledons surrounding the upcurved radicle. — Sp. 80 ; 

 4 in Fl. B. Ind. 



L. obliquely ovate i. C. cinnamomea. 



L. nearly straight, oblong or ovate-oblong . . 2. C. WiGHTii. 



1. C. cinnamomea, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 3693 (1828). Gurenda, 

 S. [Plate LXXXVI.] 



C. dysodoxylon, Thw. Enum. 267. Planch, in DC. Prod. xvii. 181. 

 C. orientalis, Moon, Cat. 73. C. P. 2563. 

 Fl. B. Ind. v. 482. 



A tree, 30-40 ft. ; branchlets tomentose ; 1. 3-4 in., obliquely 

 ovate, long-acuminate, entire crenate or serrate, glabrous, 

 coriaceous, dark green, 3-veined to below the tip, penniveined 

 and reticulate with transverse venules, base acute or rounded ; 

 petiole \-\ in. ; male fl. in short puberulous racemose cymes 

 with slender branches ; fem. and bisexual, in more slender 

 axillary or terminal cymes ; stam. 5 ; stigmas linear ; drupe 

 pisiform, narrowed to the obtusely beaked tip. 



Moist region, 2-5000 ft.; rather common. Fl. Feb., March; greenish. 



E. Bengal, Burma, Malay Archipelago. 



The name cinnamomea refers to the character of the leaves ; Thwaites' 

 name, dysodoxylon^ to the very disgusting smell of the fresh wood, espe- 

 cially when wet, of which the Singhalese name is descriptive. Thunberg 

 {Travels, iv. 234) says it was called ' Strunt-hout' by the Dutch, and 

 employed as an alterative medicine internally and externally in skin 

 affections. The wood in chips is sold in the bazaars as a medicine, 

 under the name ' Pinari,' and is exported to Bombay, where it is employed 

 as a fumigatory against evil spirits. 



2. C. Wigrhtii, Pla7ich. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, x. 307 (1848). 

 Meditella, S. 



Thw. Enum. 267. Planch, in DC. Prod. xvii. 184. C. P. 50. 

 Fl. B. Ind. V. 483. Wight, Ic. t. 1969. 



A tree, 30-40 ft. ; young shoots puberulous ; 1. 4-7 in., 

 oblong or oblong-oval or lanceolate, acuminate or caudate, 

 entire or young, remotely toothed crenate or serrate, or 

 coarsely toothed above the middle, glabrous or puberulous 

 beneath, coriaceous, 3-veined to the tip, penniveined and 

 reticulate with transverse venules, yellow-green, base rounded 

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