•476 LIT. nillZOPHOR.VCK.'E. 



iruncate, reaching 4-5 in. before falling. Fl. B. I. v. 2, p. 438 ; Bedd. 

 Tor. Man. p. ci ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. IGO ; Woodr. in Journ. 

 Bomb. jSat. v. 11 (1898) p. 630. Kanilla parviflora, Blume, Mus. 

 Bot. Lugd. Bat. v. 1 (1849) p. 140, t. 30; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 95. 

 lihizophom parvijlora, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. v. 2, p. 461 ; Grab. Cat. p. 68. — 

 Flowers : Dec. 



Salt-marshes, but not common. Konkas : near Moul (Sabette), Gra/*a««. Kanaka: 

 Karwar, Woodrow. 



5. CARALLIA, Roxb. 

 Trees or .shrubs. Leaves opjiosite. petiolate, ovate or elliptic, glabrous, 

 shining; stipides interpetiolar, caducous. Flowers small, sessile, often 

 crowded in axillary trichotoraously-branched cymes ; peduncles short, 

 stout. Calyx-tube cylindric or campanulate, minutely bracteolate at 

 the base; limb 5-8-Jobed, the lobes erect, valvate. Petals 5-8, inserted 

 on the margin of a ci-enulate disk lining the calyx-tube, clawed, 2-fid or 

 entire, subserrate or lacerate at the apex. Disk epigynous, 10-16-lobed. 

 Stamens 10-16, inserted with the petals ; filaments filiform ; anthers 

 small, oblong. Ovary g-inferior ; style subulate or filiform ; stiguia 

 3-5-lobed. Fruit small, globose, coriaceous, 1-celled. Seed 1, globose- 

 reniform ; testa fibrcms ; albumen fleshy ; embryo curved. — Disxrib. 

 Tropical Asia and Australia, Madagascar; species about 12, 



1. Carallia integerrima, DC. Pradr. v. 3 (1828) p. 33. A 

 moderate-sized glabrous tree. Leaves 2-4 by 1-2| in., very variable in 

 shape, broadly elliptic, obovate-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, rounded or 

 very shortly acuminate at the apex, entire, smooth and shining above, 

 paler beneath, base acute or cuneate, rarely rounded ; main nerves 

 numerous, spreading and interarching freely ; petioles stout, |-yV in- 

 long ; stipules g-| in. long, caducous. Flowers sessile, in small heads, 

 on stout bi'anches of axillary trichotomous cymes shorter than the 

 leaves ; buds exuding a .sticky resinous substance. Calyx ^ in. long, 

 campanulate, glabrous, divided about |-way down; lobes 6-8 (commonly 

 7), triangidar, acute. Petals white, as many as the calyx-lobes and 

 shorter than them, broadly obovate or suborbicular, clawed, irregulai'ly 

 laciniate, with lanceolate segments. Stamens twice as many as the 

 petals ; one of each pair of filaments opposite to a petal and embraced 

 by it, slightly long<^r than the other filament, which is opposite to 

 a sepal. Stigma 4-5-lobed. Fruit filiform, about \ in. in diam. 

 smooth, red. Seed 1 ; testa thick, bright- orange. Fl. B. I. v. 2, p. 439 ; 

 Dalz. & Gibs. p. 96: Bedd. Fl. Sylvat. t. 193; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 2, 

 p. 155 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 160 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. 

 Nat. V. 11 (1898) p. 636; AVatt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 2, p. 140. 

 Carallia ceylonica, Wight, lllustr. t. 90. Carallia intec/rifolia, Grab. 

 Cat. p. 68. — Flowers: Dec-Mar. Vern. Panschi. 



KoNKAS : Storks'., Law'.; hills near Marmagoa, 2?^(ra!; Matheran, CooJce'., Knvitlar'.; 

 vale of the Savitri, between Poladpur anrl the Ghats, Graham. Deccan: hills about 

 Vhr, Graham; Khamlala, Graham. S. M. Country, Eamghat, /?i^c/ejc, 279 ! Kanara: 

 N. Kanara, Talbot, Stocks\, Law'. — Distrib. Throughout India; Cejlon, Malaya, 

 China, Australia. 



The tree is very common and is quite dietinct from Carallia lucida, Roxb. Hort. 

 Beng. p. 02, & Cor. PI. t. 211. Kurz (For. Fl. Brit. Burm. v. 1, p. 451) under the 

 name C. lucida gives a correct description of this plant except for the statemeut that 



