424 XCVII. YKRBENACE.'E. 



1. Tectona grandis, Linn. f. Suppl. (1781) p. 151. A large 

 deciduous tree ; branchlets quadrangular, channelled, stellately tomen- 

 tose. Leaves 1-2 by g-l ft. (in seedlings often much larger), elliptic 

 or obovate, acute or acuminate, the upper surface rough but usually 

 glabrous, the lower clothed with dense stellate grey or tawny tomentum, 

 entire, base usually cuneate ; main nerves 8-10 pairs with 2 or 3 large 

 branches near the edge of the leaf, joined by numerous parallel trans- 

 verse veins. Flowers shortly pedicellate, in large erect terminal branched 

 tomentose cymose panicles 1-3 ft. long, with lanceolate bracts at the 

 forks ; bracts beneath the calyx -^ in. long, linear-lanceolate. Calyx in 

 flower g in. long, stellately tomentose, semiglobose-campanulate, the 

 lobes 5 or 6, spreading, subequal, ^V i^- ^^^^g < i^ ^^""^^ enlarged to 1 in. 

 or even more long, bladder-hke, enclosing the fruit, ovoid, more or less 

 crumpled or irregularly plaited, reticulately veined. Corolla white, 

 glabrous, 5-6-lobed ; tube about -^ in. long ; limb \ in. across when 

 expanded, with spreading subequal lobes. Fruit g in. in diam., sub- 

 globose, somewhat 4-lobed, the pericarp soft with dense felted stellate 

 hairs ; endocarp bonv. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 570 ; Grab. Cat. p. 158 ; Dalz. 

 & Gibs. p. 199 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylvat. t. 250 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, 

 p. 273 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 359 ; Watt, Diet. 

 Econ. Prod. v. 6, part 4, p. 1. — Flowers: June-Sept. Veen. S(lg\ 

 Sagwdn. 



The well-known Teak-tree. It grows abundantly all along the slopes of the 

 Western Ghats and extends nortliward to the Mhye Eiver in Gujarat {Bmndis). 

 For a full description of the Teak, its mode of cultivation, uses, &c., consult Watt, 

 Diet. Econ. Prod. 1. c. — Distuib. India (W. Peninsula, Central India, Birma) ; Malay 

 Peninsula, Sumatra, Java. 



8. GMELINA, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs unarmed or spinous ; young shoots usually tomentose. 

 Leaves opposite, entire or toothed, sometimes more or less lobed. 

 Flowers large, yellow or brownish-yellow, often tomentose, in small 

 dense or lax sessile or pedunculate cymes along the branches of a ter- 

 minal panicle ; bracts usually narrow, rarely leafy. Calyx campanulate, 

 4-5-toothed or subentire, persistent and unaltered in fruit. Corolla 

 2-lipped, iufundibuliform, ventricose in the upper part ; tube slender 

 below, much swollen above; limb oblique, spreading, 4-5-lobed. Sta- 

 mens 4, didynamous, inserted below the throat, shorter than the corolla; 

 anthers with oblong more or less discrete cells. Ovary 4-celled ; ovule 

 solitary in each cell ; style slender ; stigma shortly 2-fid. Fruit a 

 succulent drupe ; endocarp undivided, bony, 2-4-celled. Seeds oblong; 

 albumen ; cotyledons thick. — Disxiiiii. India, China, Malay Archi- 

 pelago, Tropical Australia ; species about 8. 



An unarmed tree ; leaves exceeding 3 in. long, stellately fulvous- 



toinentose beneath ; calyx-tfieth 5 1. G. arborea. 



A shrub often spinous ; leaves less tiian 2 in. long, glabrous and 



.studded beneatli with round glands; calyx-teeth 4 2. G. aMafica. 



1. Gmelina arborea, lloxh. Hon. Bohj. (JM4) p. 4(5. A moderate- 

 sized unarmed deciduous tree, reaching (iO ft. high ; bark greyish-yellow, 

 rather corky ; branchlets and voung parts clolhcd with line while mealy 

 pubescence! Leaves 4-8 by 3~G in., broadly o\ate, amminatc, eiiLirc, 



