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Gujarat: Graham. Kanaka: Kala naddi, ff/^c^/c, ^^ !— Distkib. India; E.Arclii- 

 pelago, N. Australia. 



Tile tree is known to Anglo-Indians as the marldng-nuf tree, the juice of the jjericiirp 

 being used for marking cotton clotiis. An acrid viscid juice is extmcted from it 

 which is used in making a kind of varnish, while the fleshy receptacles on which the 

 drupes rest are roasted and eaten. See Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. I.e. 



Var, cuneifolia, DC. Prodr. v. 2, p. 62. Leaves cuneate at the base, 

 often tomentose beneath. S. cwieifoUa (sp.), Roxb. Fi. Ind. v. 2, p. 86 ; 

 Grah. Cat. p. 41. — Flowers : Dec. Vern. Bibti. 



Bahe/l, without locality, in Herb. Kew. ! Deccan : Lanoli Grove, Khnndala and 

 jimgles about Par, Graham. — Distuib. Tropical Himalaya, Kliasia mountains and 

 Behar. 



This is included on the authority of Graham {I. c). 



8. HOLIGARNA, Ham. 



Lofty trees. Leaves alternate, simple, quite entire, coriaceous ; petiole 

 furnished with 2 or 4 spur-like deciduous appendages. Flowers small, 

 crowded, in axillary and terminal racemes or panicles. Calyx sujierior ; 

 tube cup-sbaped ; teeth 5, imbricate. Petals 5, densely villous in front, 

 coheritig at the base and with the edge ot" the disk, persistent, vah^ate. 

 Disk lining the caljx-tube, obscure in the female flowers. Stamens 5, 

 inserted at the edge of the disk, coherent at the base with the petals ; 

 filaments subulate, glabrous ; anthers small, subglobose. Ovary in the 

 male flowers 0, in the female flowers inferior, 1 -celled; ovule pendulous 

 from near the top of the cell ; styles 3-5, terminal ; stigmas capitate or 

 clavate. Drupe inferior, subcompressed, oblong or ovoid, resinous, 

 ai-rid ; stone coriaceous. Seed parietal; testa membranous; embryo 

 thick ; cotyledons plano-convex ; radicle minute, next the hilum. — 

 DiSTKiB. Throughout India ; species 5 or 6. 



Leaves quite glabrous beneath ; drupe almost entirely included 



in the torus 1. H. Arnottiana, 



Leaves rusty-pubescent beneath ; drupe j-g exserted from the 



torus 2. H. Grahamii. 



1. Holigarna Arnottiana, Hool-.f. in Fl. B. I. v. 2 (1876) p. 36. 

 A tall tree ; branches densely leafy at the apex. Leaves 6-12 by 2-4 in., 

 obovate or oblmceolate, decurrent into the petiole, acute or rounded at 

 the apex, glabrous on both surfaces, paler beneath ; main nerves 12-20 

 pairs, prominent on both surfaces, nearly straight, making a large angle 

 with the costa ; petioles |-1 in. long, with 2 petiolar spurs or tubercles 

 at the top, which are early deciduous. Flowers minute, crowded, in 

 rufous-tomentose panicles which are shorter or longer than the leaves. 

 Calyx-teeth very short. Petals yL in. long, oblong, acute. Drupes 

 reaching 1 in. long, obliquely ovoid, rounded at the top, quite glabrous, 

 long-pedicelled, almost entirely included in the torus. Talb. Trees, Bomb, 

 p. 63 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1807) p. 273 ; Engler, in 

 DC. Mouogr. Phan. v. 4, p. 407 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 4, p. 250, 

 Holif/arna longifolia, W. & A. Prodr. p. 160 (not of Eoxb.) ; Grah. Cat. 

 p. 4i ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 51. — Flowers : Jan.-Feb. Vern. Hulyeri. 



Common in the evergreen forests of the Konkan and N. Kanara. Bahell in Herb. 

 Kew. without any locality! Konkan: Stock&\\ hilly and wooded parts, Graham. 

 S. M. Country : Woodrotu ! Kanaka : Nilkund (N. Kanara), Talbot ! j Divimana, 

 Woodrow. — DisTRiB. India (Western and Southern Ghats). 



