3. Elaeodendeon. ] 36. CELASTRACEM. [ 4. Siphonodok. 



Throughout the area usually in dry forests where it occurs as a small 

 tree only. Fl. 8ept-Dec. Brandis however says Feby. -June, so there may 

 be two periods. The fruits may be found at most times of the year and 

 appear to ripen about Feby. Nearly leafless March-April and new 

 leaves appear in May. 



L. deep green glabrous 2-6'' by 1-3'' ell., ovate to obovate, aonte or 

 acuminate, coriaceous, nerves slender. Petioles -g-V grooved above. 

 Cymes 2-4'' with long slender peduncles. Sep. unequal orbicular. 

 Petals oblong £" dorsally pubescent brownish with a white thinner margin. 

 St.- inserted on the lobes of the disc near the margin reourved with sub- 

 globose 2-celled anthers. Ofary conical, base only confluent with tue 

 disc, 2-celled, (or 3-celled, Brandis) with 2 linear ovules in each cell 

 apex tapering into the stigma. Fr. 1-seeded crowned with the style. 



A preparation of the bark is given in cholera.— Campbell. 



4 Siphonodon, Griff. 



1. S. celastrineus, Griff. 



A small erect tree with coriaceous somewhat distichous 

 ellip.-obloug more or less crenate leaves somewhat resembling 

 those of Croton oblongifolious, white flowers §-§" diam. iD 

 3-fld. axillary cymes or in several- flowered, cymes from the 

 branches. Fruit broadly pyriform 1J-2* long by 1-1 V w i* n 

 coriaceous pericarp, firm mesocarp and numerous pyrenes with 

 woody endocarp. 



Ravines in the Rajmehal hills, not common. Fls. April-June. 

 Fr. ripens Feby. Evergreen. 



Glabrous. L. 4'' by 1$" to 8£" by 3£" very shining above, acute or 

 acuminate with rounded rarely acute base, sec. n. slender about 8 prs. 

 depressed above. Calyx with broad rounded lobes. Petals on the 

 calyx-tube broad-oblong. Disc filling and adnate to the calyx-tube with 

 a lobed margin bearing the stamens between the lobes. Filaments broad, 

 flattened arching over the pistil, with very broad connective bearing 

 the oblique anther lobes on the margin, anthers laterally dehiscent. 

 Ovary sunk in the disc hollowed out at the apex into a flask shaped 

 cavity from the base of which rises what looks like a stout style and 

 capitate stigma. This style-like organ ie surrounded by a collar of 

 5 minute appendages of the ovary (opp. the petals) which are said to bo 

 the stigmas. There are also 5 still smaller points alternating with these. 

 The ovary contains some 20-30 lenticular cells radially disposed, but 

 otherwise showing no other arrangement, each with one ovule with 

 funicle directed towards the axis. Irregularly arranged py renes laterally 

 compressed. Teat* very thin, Cotyledons large, thick caulicle directed 

 to the axi. 



A very remarkble tree on account of $he structure of tho pistil 

 hitherto only reported from Sikkim, Burma and Java. 



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