10. Gabdenia. ] 84. RVBIACEM. 



grey-green with fleshy pericarp and thin woody or bony 

 endocarp, with 5 or 6 placentae and densely packed with 

 hard angnlar seeds. 



Abundant in dry forests, esp. on slopes of clay and quartz-stones. 

 Also frequent in second growth, forest. Fls. April-May, mostly when 

 leafless, but also at other times. Fr. takes about a year to ripen. 

 Deciduous March-May. 



L. narrowed into a short petiole. Calyx of male truncate, or with 

 minute teeth, of female campanulate with lanceolate, ovate or f oliaceoua 

 t6eth. 



Fruit sometimes eaten. 



A membranous-leaved glabrous variety with elliptic or ell.-obovate 

 leaves with the sec. n. all oblique and parallel (not sub-flabellate as in 

 the common form) is indistinguishable from G. campanulata except by the 

 flowers. F. fl. only f " diam., tube not exserted. I suspect Eoxburgh may 

 nave been right in making two species. "Jhe fruit is wrongly described 

 by authors as always beaked, the beak may entirely disappear. 



2. 6. campanulata, Roxb. 



Has only been recorded from Parasnath (by Sir J; D. 

 Hooker and Anderson). « 



L. membranous ell.-obovate or oblanceolate. M. corolla under $* 

 diam. campanulate. F. %-%'' diam. with very short lobes. Calyx'teeth 

 linear-lanceolate. Fr. f-l^'' diam. 



3. G. gummifera, L.f. Bnrnri, M. ; Bund, Ho. 

 Bniru, Bhumij. 



A handsome shrnb, sometimes 12 ft. with snb- sessile 

 shining oblong to obovate leaves 1J-3" and, at certain 

 eeasons, a clear drop of gum completely covering the leaf- 

 buds. Large white nearly sessile fiOwers with a tube 2-21* 

 long and 5 oblong lobes 1-1 f by J-f. Er. 1-lf beaked 

 with the calyx. 



In most of the districts, but peculiarly local. It occurs sub-gre- 

 gariously on many of the dry hills with a clay soil covered with quart* 

 fragments in Singbhum, Manbhum and Gangpur, but is absent from the 

 Tundi hills and the Santal Parganahs. Fls. March-May. esp. in April, 

 when the bushes are bare of leaves. Fr. June-July. 



1 Mr. Innes says boiled and eaten when unripe chiefly in Julf 

 August. When ripe becomes rather poisonous, 



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