92 SABIACE^. 



Mcliosma wightii Planch; F.B.I, ii 4, II 3; Bastard 

 Mango ; usually a small tree, though in the middle of a 

 shola it may attain a good height, of irregular outline, 

 the foliage being in lumps of a few large drooping 

 leaves : recognised at once, when in flower, by the 

 tall pyramidal panicles of small cream-coloured flowers, 

 recalling those of the Mango. 



Branchlets thick, studded with numerous large lenti- 

 cels i/io inch long, and coated with a yellowish tomentum 

 of branched hairs. Leaves alternate, simple, 4 to 8 by 

 2 to 3 inches, elliptic or obovate, the youngest with a few 

 short sharp teeth about one inch apart, towards the apex 

 otherwise entire ; dark green and glossy on the upper 

 side with a few hairs only, yellow-tomentose on the 

 prominently raised reticulate veins of the lower and 

 more especially in their axils. Panicles terminal, tall 

 and well branched, thickly covered with small flowers, 

 in bud for some weeks before the rains, and then fawn 

 coloured and drooping ; when out a creamy yellow. 

 Fruit Vs inch. t. 70. Wight Sp. Nilg. 34 and 35 Ic. 

 t. 964, 3. (Milingtonia.) 



Common in sholas at the highest levels, near Ootacamund 

 and on the Kodaikanal downs. At lower levels its place is 

 taken by the next species. Fyson 301 1, 379, 2071, 3012. 

 Bourne 251, 1360. 



Gen. Dist. Western Ghats, Coorg, Mysore, northwards to Bombay and 

 southwards to Ceylon (5 to 7,000 feet). 



Mcliosma arnottiana Wight; F.B.I, ii 6, II 9. 

 Spiraea-tree of Kotagiri and Coonoor (not of Ootacamund 

 or Kodaikanal) ; a round-topped tree, common in sholas 

 and the open hill-side, flowering before the rains with 

 broad shallow cream-coloured masses of small flowers. 



Tree 30 or 40 feet in the shola, or in the open 15 to 

 20 feet ; round-topped : trunk thick. Young parts gene- 

 rally and leaf-stalks and midribs clothed with brown 



