482 LV. COMliHKTACK.E. 



3. ANOGEISSUS, Wall. 

 Slirubs or small trees. Leaves alternate, petioiate, entire. Flowers 

 small, yellow, in dense globose axillary heads ; ])eduncles slender. 

 Calyx-tube comi)ressed, 2-\vinged, attenuated and produced above the 

 ovary ; limb campanulate or urceolate, 5-ii.l, deciduous. Petals 0. 

 Stamens 10, biseriate, exserted ; anthers small, cordate. Ovary inferior, 

 1-celied ; ovules 2, pendulous from the top of the cell ; style filiform, 

 thickened at the base, villous ; stigma simple. Fruit packed in dense 

 heads, small, thickly coriaceous, broadly trape/.oidal, 2-winged, terminated 

 by the produced calyx-tube. Seed 1, ovoid ; cotyledons convolute. — 

 JJiSTiUB. India and Tropical Africa ; species 5. 



Beak of fruit as long as or longer than its nucleus. 



Fruit (including the wings) longer than broad ; wings with 



entire niiirgiiiB ; peduncles branched 1. A. latifolia. 



Fruit (including tlio wings) broadw than long ; wings with 



jagged margins ; peduncles not branched 2. A. eericea. 



Beak of fruit shorter than its uucleus 3. A. pe7idala. 



1. Anogeissus latifolia. Wall. Crt^ (1828) 4015. An erect tree 

 sometimes reaching (30-70 ft.; bark smooth, light-colored; young parts 

 glabrous or sdky-pubescent. Leaves 2|-4 by 1^-2 in., alternate or 

 subopposite, elliptic or oblong-elliptic, obtuse or very often shortly 

 cuspidate, glabrous when fully grown, pale dull glaucous-green, base 

 usually rounded, midrib prominent, pink ; main nerves G-10 pairs, 

 arching, prominent on the lower side, the veins between them reticulate ; 

 petioles \-h in. long. Flowers sessile, in small dense heads ; peduncles 

 1 or more from the same axil, branched, not much longer than the 

 petioles. Calyx-tube pubescent ; teeth short, broadly triangular. Fruit 

 small, several crowded in a globular head, the nucleus nearly plano- 

 convex, ^-1 in. long (excluding the beak), g-^ in, broad (including the 

 wings), yeilowish-brown, glabrous or more or less pubescent, winged 

 down the two longest sides, beaked with the persistent calyx which is 

 as long as or sometimes longer than the nucleus ; wings with entire 

 margins. Seed solitary. Fl, B. I. v. 2, p. 450. Bedd. Flor, Sylvat, 

 t, 15 ; Trim, Fl. Ceyl. v, 2, p. 162 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 1G4 ; 

 AVoodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898) p. 63G ; Watt, Diet. Econ. 

 Prod, v, 1, p. 256. Conocarptis latifolia, lioxb. Hort. Beng. p. 34; 

 Grab, Cat. p, 70 ; Wight, Icon. t. 994 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 91.— Flowers: 

 May-July. Vern. Dhdvda ; Dhaura ; Ddhria. 



Tiiroughout the Presidency usually in dry forests. Konkan : Law\; vales of 

 Ivonkau rivers near their source, Graham; Kanheri jungles, Graham; Matheran 

 Ghat, H. M. Birdwood; Mira hills, Dalzell t|- Gibaon. Dkccan: Kolapur, Cooke \\ 

 Gliat near Wai, Woodrowl; Gh;it near Wathar, Cuolce\ S. M. Countiiy : Belgauui 

 hills, Ritchie, 922!— Distrib. Throughout the greater part of India; Ceylon. 



The tree yields a useful gum and the wood is very strong and tough. See Watt, 

 Diet. Econ. Trod. 1. c. 



2. Anogeissus sericea, Brandis, in Indian Forester, v. 25 (1900) 

 p. 287. A middle-sizi'd tree ; branchlets clothed with silky pubescence. 

 Leaves 1-1^ by f-l in., elliptic, obtuse, apiculate or very shortly 

 cuspidate, glabrous or nearly so above (when mature), clothed on the 

 lower side and the nerves beneath with silky pubescence ; main nerves 

 4-6 pairs ; petioles § in. long, pubescent. Flowers in globose heads, 



