4 Mitbagyna.] 84. RUBIACEM. [6. Wendlandia* 



L. glabrous except near the axils of the 7-10 prominent nerves, base 

 rounded. Petioles £-1". Fls. surrounded by palaeaceous bracteolea. 

 Heads £'' diam. in fruit. 



It is sometimes pollarded for fodder. 



5. Hymenodictyon, Wall. 



1. H. excelsum, Wall. Borkunda, K. ; Bhorkond, 5., 

 Kharw*; Bhurkul, JEC.; Bharwar, Gond. 



A large or mod.-sized tree with leaves at tlie ends of the 

 branches ovate to very broadly elliptic 4-10'' by 3-6". Fls. 

 greenish, crowded in dense sab-erect or drooping tomentose 

 panicles 3-6" long, which are subtended by a pair of spread- 

 ing long petioled leaf -like bracts. Capsules f-f" long ovoid 

 or ellipsoid loculicidal, 



Common usually in dry rocky situations, but also in valleys. In 

 all districts. Fls. Aug. Pr. ripens Jamj. ? It is leafless from Nov. to May 

 when it may be easily recognized by its large pyramidal persistent 

 panicles of small dry reflexed capsules and by the dry persistent pair of 

 foliaceous bracts. 



L. softly pubescent, abruptly acuminate, base acute, sec. n. 7-10 prs. 

 Stipules deciduous. Petiole 1-4''. Calyx-tube with sepals T y. Corolla ±* 

 with a very slender tube and small campanulate limb. Ovary 2-celled. 

 Style slender exserted. 



" The inner bark and root are given in fever of the tertian type," 

 Campbell. 



6. Wendlandia, Bartl. 



Small trees or shrubs. Fls. small white in terminal dense 

 panicles, 2-3-bracteolate. Sepals 4-5, small persistent". 

 Corolla with long or short tube and 4-5 lobes imbricate in 

 bud. Ovary 2-celled. Ovules on small globose axile 

 placentae. Capsule small globose 2-valved with minute 

 compressed seeds. 



1. W. exsarta, B.C. Tilai, £.; Hundru, 8. (The Kols and 

 Santals reverse the names of these trees); Tiruwa, Mai Pah. 



A handsome small tree, hoary-pubescent or tomentose all 

 over, with oblong- or ovate-lanceolate acuminate leaves, 



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