6. Clebodbndbon.] 82. VERBENACE&. [7. Gmelina. 



L. glabrous, ooarsely serrate above. Petioles |*. Panicle-branchet 

 and pedicels shortly hairy with persistent ovate bracts. Calyx \'' very 

 shortly lobed. Corolla -with an anterior^ blue-oblong petal f long with a 

 large nectary at base, other lobes obliquely spreading. Tube \-\.'' Bt. 

 bluish very declinate. 



Boot given in fever, also used in the fermentation of rice-beer, Camp. 



4. (J. Siphon anthus j Br. Barangi, H.; Bananhati, Beng. 



A shrub, or herbaceous with tall annual hollow stems 

 3-6 ft. high, with 3-5-nately whorled rarely opp. sessile 

 or sub-sessile narrowly-lanceolate entire or sinuate glabrous 

 leaves 5-8" by |-1|", and pretty white or cream-coloured 

 flowers in axillary cymes forming a large terminal panicle. 

 Drupe blue on the large red calyx. 



Along river bants and in moist localities, Singbhum, Eanchi, Palaman, 

 and probably in all districts. Fla. June-Aug. Fr. Aug.'Nov. 



6. Caryopteris, Bunge. 

 1. C- Wallichiana, Schauer. 



A laxly branched shrub with 4-angled sub-tomentose 

 shoots, and lanceolate sub-entire or serrate leaves 2-4" long. 

 Easily recognized by the numerous yellow glands, and the 

 spreading blue or light purple flowers in small cymes 

 which are arranged in narrow axillary and terminal 

 thyrses, somewhat as in Clerodendron serratum. 



Santal Parganahs, Gamble (in Sonthal Parganaha list). The only 

 -<»Cord. Fla. Dec. 



Peti. short. Calyx deeply 5-6-fid. Ovary 1-celled above. Placenta 

 2 with incurved margins, ovules pendulous from a thickened funicle. 

 Fruit dividing into 4 valves with incurved margins, embracing the l- 

 seeded slightly winged pyrenes. 



7. Gmelina, L. 



1. G- arborea. £• Kasmar, K. S. ; Gambhar, Gamhar, R. 



A mod.-sized or large tree with broadly ovate acuminate 

 usually cordate leaves 4-9" by 2J-8" usually glaucous 

 beneath, petioles 2-6" long, and large reddish, or brown 



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