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glabrous above when mature, stellately fulvous-tomentose beneath, base 

 cordate or sometimes truncate and shortly cuneate ; petioles 2-3 in. 

 long, cylindrie, puberulous, glandular at the top. Tlowers appearing 

 with or sometimes before the young leaves, usually in small cymes of 

 about 3 flowers arranged along the branches of a densely fulvous-hairy 

 panicle reaching 12 in. long; buds clavate, angular; bracts ^ in. long, 

 liuear-lanceolate. Calyx i in. long, broadly campanulate, densely fulvous- 

 hairy ; teeth 5, small, triangular, acute. Corolla brownish-yellow, 

 densely hairy outside, reaching 1^ in. long, 5-lobed, 2-lipped ; upper lip 

 rather more than | in. long, deeply divided into 2 oblong, obtuse lobes ; 

 lower lip nearly 1 in. long, 3-lobed, the middle lobe projecting forward, 

 ovate, subobtuse, with irregularly crenulate margin, much longer and 

 broader than the obovate rounded lateral lobes. Drupe |-1 in. long, 

 ovoid or pyriform, smooth, orange-yellow when ripe. Fl. B. I. v. 4, 

 p. 581 ; Grab. Cat. p. 158 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 201 ; Wight, Icon.t. 1470; 

 Trim. Tl. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 355 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 269 ; Woodr. 

 in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 359 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 3, 

 p. 514. — 1 lowers : Mar .-May. Veei^. Shivan. 



Konkan: Balzell ^ Gibson. Deccan; Mawal, Wooclroiv ; CTanesh Kliind, Woodrowl 

 Kanaka: deciduous forests, Talbot; near Wagiili, Bitchie, 1962! Gujarat: Dangs, 

 Woodrow. SiND : (introduced) Dahdl ^- Gibson. — Distrib. Throughout India ; 

 Ceylon, Malajan and Philippine Islnnds. 



The root, the bark, and the fruit are used medicinally ; the fruit is also eaten 

 by some of the hill-tribes. The timber is excellent, strong and light, does not warp 

 nor shrink, and is valuable for ornamental work. See Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. 1. c. 



2. Gmelina asiatica, Linn. Sp. PL (1753) p. 626. A much- 

 branched more or less spinous shrub ; bark yellowish-white ; branchlets 

 horizontal, rigid, puberulous, often much shortened and spinous at the 

 ends. Leaves f-1^ by |-1 in., ovate or elliptic, sometimes irregularly 

 and more or less obscurely lobulate, obtuse, glabrous, glaucescent beneath 

 from a coating of minute round glands, base acute or rounded ; petioles 

 I in. long. Flowers large, nodding, in terminal densely pubescent 

 racemes or panicles ; pedicels short, pubescent ; bracts small, caducous. 

 Calyx -^--l- in. long, cup-shaped, truncate, pubescent, clothed with flat- 

 tened round glands ; lobes 4, very small, triangular, acute. Corolla 

 2-lipped, bright-yellow, 1| in. long or more, finely pubescent outside ; 

 tube narrow below, curved, very much inflated above ; lobes 4, ovate, 

 subacute, the lower one the largest. Drupe | in. long, obovoid, yellow 

 when ripe, containing 1 pyrene. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 582 ; Grab. Cat. 

 p. 158 ; Wight, 111. t. 174 ; Bedd. For. Man. in Flor. Sylvat. p. clxxii ; 

 Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 355 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 269 ; Woodr. 

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

 V. 3, p. 516. — Flowers more or less throughout the year. Veen. Kdli- 

 sJiivan. 



Doubtfully wild in the Bombay Presidency, where it is however extensirely grown in 

 gardens and employed for making fences. It is abundant on the Coromandel coast, 

 being, according to Roxburgh, " one of the commonest bushes in every uncultivated 

 place." It is also common in Ceylon and is cultivated in Bengal. The root and leaves 

 are used in native medicine, the latter apparently possessing the property of rendering 

 water mucilaginous. See Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. 1. c. — Distrib. India (W. Penin- 

 suln, Birma) ; Ceylon. 



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