I. Amtbocephalus.J 84. RUBIACE&. [2. Nauclba. 



1. Anthocephalus, A. Rich. 



1. A. Cadamba, Miq. Sanko, K. Kadam, S., H. 



A large and (in the forest) very straight tree with spread- 

 ing sub-whorled brandies and large ell.-oblong or ovate, 

 sometimes cordate leaves 5-10" long, small orange coloured 

 flowers in dense heads with prominent styles and stigmas 

 becoming in fruit a fleshy orange globose psendocarp 2-2^* 

 diam. 



Valleys in Singbhum, chiefly on- the Porahat plateau. Planted in 

 Ranchi and elsewhere. F4fi~ May- July. Fr. Aug. -Oct. Evergreen. 



L. shining above with usually sub-cordate base, or where base acute 

 leaf widest below the middle, sec n. 8-15 prs. usually 12. Stipules narrow, 

 lanceolate £ f " long. Sep. 5. T Vt'' linear-oblanceolate. . Cor. %''. Anths. 

 apiculate. Fls. without bracteoles. Ovary 4-oelled above, 2-celled below, 

 placentae twice bifid. Each fruit consists of 4 horny cocci above, which are 

 Beparable from the fragile lower part and contain most of the numerous 

 angular punctulate seeds (seeds few, fide F.B.I, but I have counted over 50 

 from one. fruit). 



Paendooarp is eaten, 



2. Nauclea, L, 

 l. N. purpurea, Roxb. 



A small tree with pale glabrous twigs and large oblong 

 stipules §-§* long enclosing the terminal bud as in Adina. 

 L: 5" by 2£'* to 10" by 4f" elliptic el]. -lanceolate or ell.-oblanceo- 

 late acute or sub-acute--quite glabrous, shining above, base 

 narrowed into the petiole. Sec. n. prominent beneath with 

 glandnlar pits in the axils of some, other nerves obscure. 

 Petioles |-l|"x rather slender. 



Eavines in the Santal Parganahs, very rare. 



Fls. not seen in the Santal Parganahs tree, hence there must, for the 

 present, be some doubt of the identification. N. purpurea has not hitherto 

 been recorded north of the Circars. The stipules at once distinguish it 

 from Anthocephalus. Glandular-pits in the nerve axils are very rare and 

 ebscure in SarcuC -phalus, absent in Anthocephalus and Cephalanthua . 

 tut frequent in Adina, Stephegyne and Nauclea. 



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