5S0 LXX. IIUBIACE^K. 



Naucl. Ind. p. 20 ; Jackson, in Index Keweii. v. 1, p. 148. Avtlio- 

 Ci'pluilas Cadumba, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. v. 2 (1S5G) p. 135 ; Huok. f. in 

 ri. B. I. V. 3, p. 23 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 2, p. 293 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb, 

 ed. 2, p. 184 ; AVoodr. in Jouru. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898) p. 644 ; Watt, 

 Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 1, p. 2(5G. Nam-lea Cadamha, Eoxb. Hort. Beng. 

 p. 14 ; (xrah. Cat. p. 87 ; Dulz. & Gibs. Suppl. p. 43.— Flowers : Nov.- 

 Feb. Ye UN. Niv ; Kadain. 



A doubtful native, common near villages throughout the Konkan, but apparently 

 not found unmistakably wild. Konkan: Poladpur, Graham; Dasgaon (Ratnagiri 

 districts), Woodroicl; Hatkhabe near Ratnagiri, Lhival Kanaka: N. Kanara, rare, 

 'Jh/hot ; Kala naddi, Bitchic, 987 !— Distkib. Throughout India, often cultivated ; 

 Ceylon, Sumatra, Borneo. 



Tliere used to be a very large tree at the Wada Travellers' Bungalow below Maha- 

 bleshwar. 



3. NAUCLEA, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, sessile or petiolate ; the secondary 

 ner\ es usually few ; stipules interpetiolar, flat, entire, deciduous. 

 Flowers crow ded in globose braeteate heads ; peduncles terminal, simple, 

 solitary or ternate ; bracts often large, caducous ; bracteoles or glabrous, 

 setiform, intermixed with the flowers. Calyx-tube prism-shaped ; lobes 5, 

 deciduous, linear-subulate, often tipped with valvate processes at the 

 apex. Corolla-tube infundibuliform ; lobes 5, imbricate. Stamens 5 on 

 the throat of the corolla ; anthers oblong or linear. Ovary 2-celled ; 

 ovules numerous in each cell on pendulous placentas ; style long, 

 thickened ; stigma globose. Fruit of 2 cocci, the cocci often separating 

 from a persistent axis. Seeds imbricate ; testa winged, the upper wing 

 2-horned, the lower acuminate. — Distrib. Tropical Asia and Polynesia; 

 species 30. 



Linnreus is usually cited as the author of the genus Naucka. but the plant {Nauclca 

 oricnialh) on wliich Linnirus founded the genus is now Sarcocejihalus cordata; hence 

 the real Nauclea of Linnseus does not now exist as l^auclea. 



1. Nauclea purpurea, Roxh. Cor. PL v. 1 (1795) p. 41, t. 54. A 



small glabrous tree. Leaves 4-8 by l|-4 in., membranous, elliptic or 

 lanceolate, acute or acumiuate, glabrous, base much tapering ; main 

 nerves 8-10 pairs ; petioles g-l in. long, drying black. Peduncles 

 \-2\ in. long, usually solitary, braeteate about the middle, terete, 

 thickened above ; bracts very caducous. Calyx \ in. long ; tube glabrous 

 or nearly so ; teeth triangular-subulate, ^ in. long, silky. Corolla | in. 

 long, externally glabrous or nearly so ; lobes g in. long, oblong-obovate, 

 obtuse, glabrous or slightly pubescent outside. Anthers included within 

 the corolla-lobes, apiculate. Fruit of 2 dehiscent many-seeded cocci. 

 Fl. B. I. V. 3, p. 20; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 185; Woodr. in 

 Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898) p. 644. Nauclea elUptica, Bedd. Icon. 

 PI. Ind. Or. t. 19 ; For. Man. in Flor. Sylvat. p. cxxix, t. 29, fig. 3 

 (not of Dalzell & Gibson). — Flowers : Feb. Vebn. Dev-phanas. 



Not common in the Bombay Presidency. Stocks in Herb. Kew. (without locality) ! 

 Kanaka: Woodrow; Tioai Ghat (N. Kanara), Talbot, 1001 !— Distkib. India (VV. 

 Peninsula). 



4. ADINA, Salisb. 

 Trees or shrubs \Vith terete branches. Leaves petiolate, ovate, lanceo- 

 late or cordate ; stipules interpetiolar, large, oblong, obtuse, caducous. 

 Flowers small, crowded iu solitary pauicled globose heads surrounded by 



