10. PuTsiNJiVA ] 22. EUPK0R8IACEJB. [ 12. Antidbsma. 



A handsome mod.-sized tree with drooping branches, 

 bifarious broadly lanceolate leaves l-3£" inclined forwards, 

 often with a wavy or somewhat serrate margin. M. fl. in 

 numerous minute yellow axillary heads or contracted racemes. 

 F. fl. green solitary on current year's shoots or in few -fid. 

 racemes on the previous year's. Drupe ellipsoid hoary -f" 

 crowned with the style bases. 



Manbhum Campbell ; S. P. but where I have seen it, probably planted. 

 Mahuagari hill, Gamble I Sometimes planted on railway platforms. Ever 

 green. Fl. March- April ; Fr. Jany.-Feby. 



Twigs and petioles tomeotose. L. slightly pubescent both sides with 

 obtuse or rounded base, very finely nerved. Sepals 5. St. usually 3, ML 

 more or less connate. Seed with copious albumen and flat somewhat 

 bent cotyledons. Fruiting pedicels |-f ". The stones of the fruit are 

 Btrung into rosaries. 



11. Cyclostemon, Bl. 



1. C. assamicus, Hook. f. Ban Bokul, Beng. 



A small much-branched tree with exstipulate deep-green 

 glabrons shining elliptic-lanceolate, ell. -oblong to ovate- 

 lanceolate leaves 3-6|" by l|-3" and greenish globose dioecious 

 fls., M. clustered \" diam. St. many. F. solitary. Fruits 

 scarlet ovoid-oblong somewhat didymous |-§" long. 



Eavines in the Tholokabad forest, Singbhum. Fl. Nov.-Dec. Fr. 

 ripens April Evergreen. 



Young twigs and petioles somewhat rusty pubescent. L. rarely attain- 

 ing 8" by 3" entire acute or acuminate with rounded or acute usually 

 oblique base. Sec. n. 7-10 prs. fine and nervuies reticulate. Petiole $-$". 

 Perianth with 2 outer orbicular lobes and 2-3 inner imbricate larger 

 ones, shortly appressed hairy. Disc annular thin hirsute on margin. Fil. 

 and connective pubescent. Ovary densely silky, stigmas 2 large sub- 

 sessile half-orbicular, fleshy. Fr. velvety pubescent on the remains 

 of the perianth, usually 2-celled and 2-seeded with red coriaceous 

 epicarp, pulpy endocarp and seed with hard coriaceous testa, flat coty- 

 ledons and copious albumen. 



IS. Antidesma, L. 



Small trees or shrubs with alt. entire stipulate leaves, and 

 small or minute dioecious fls. in slender spikes or racemes 

 produced on the new shoots. Calyx 3-5-lobed or partite. St. 

 2-5, rarely 6-7 inserted on or around the disc, anther-eelle 



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