582 LXX. RUBIACE-l. 



rounded or acute, sometimes cordate ; main nerves G-8 pairs, oblique ; 

 petioles |-f in. long; stipules | by fV-T°« ^^^•' oblong-spatluilate, obtuse, 

 parallel-nerved, pink. Flowers greenish-yellow, fragrant ; peduncles 

 solitary, terminal, short, each carrying a globose head of flowers |-1 in. 

 in diam. Calyx jV in. long, funnel-shaped ; limb truncate. Corolla 

 J— y^^ in. long ; tube narrowly infundibuliform, glabrous ; lobes y^g- in. 

 long, triangular-ovate, acute, recurved. Style white, much exserted ; 

 stigma mitriform. Head of fruits k-§ in. in diam.; capsules g in. long, 

 oblong, with blunt rounded tops and 10 blunt ribs. Jackson, in Index 

 Kewen. v. 3, p. 249 ; Hav. K.ev. Naucl. in Journ. Linn. 8oe. v. 33 (1897) 

 p. 69. Sti'pheqi/ne parrifolia, Korth. Verb. Nat. Gesch. Bot. (1840?) 

 p. 161 ; Hook. f. Fl. B. I. v. 3, p. 2-5; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 2, p. 294 ; 

 Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 185 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 

 (1898) p. 644; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 6, part 3, p. 360. Nauclea 

 parvifolia, Koxb. Cor. PI. v. 1 (1795) p. 40, t. 52; Grab. Cat. p. 87 ; 

 Bedd. Flor. Sylvat. t. 34. Naudea parvijlora (an evident misprint for 

 N. parvifoUa), Dalz. & Gibs. p. 118. — Flowers: May-Aug. Veen. 

 Kadam ; Kalam. 



In deciduous forests throughout the Presidency, Talhot. Konkan : Graham. 

 Deccan : Mawal districts, Graham, Dahell ; Chinchwad (near Poona), Ranade ! 

 Gujarat : Cooke ! ; Baroda, Cooke ! ; Dabhoi, Woodrow, Kanitkar ! S. M. Country : 

 Belgaum, Ritchie, ^-il \ Kanaka: Kala naddi, Ritchie, 341 !— Distuib. Throughout 

 the drier parts of India ; C'ejlon. 



0. HYMENODICTYON, Wall. 



Trees or shrubs with thick branches and bitter bark. Leaves opposite, 

 petiolate, deciduous ; stipules interpetiolar, glandular-serrate, deciduous. 

 Flowers small, spicate, in axillary and terminal nodding panicles ; bracts 

 1 or 2, foliaceous, reticulate, subpersistent ; bracteoles small or 0. 

 Calyx-tube short ; lobes 5-6, ovate or subulate, deciduous. Corolla 

 infundibuliform or narrow ly campanulate, glabrous inside ; lobes 5, short, 

 erect, reduplicato-valvate. Stamens 5, inserted below the throat of the 

 corolla ; filaments short, dilated upwards ; anthers linear. Ovary 

 2-celled ; ovules numerous, on cylindric placentas adiiate to the septum ; 

 style filiform, exserted; stigma fusiform. Capsule loculicidally 2-valved, 

 many-seeded ; placentas at length free. Seeds imbricating upwards ; 

 testa broadly winged : embryo small in fleshy albumen. — Disieib. 

 Tropical Asia and Africa ; species 4-5. 



Flowers pedicelled ; corolla J in. long; capsules on decurved 



peduncles 1. H. excehum. 



Flowers sessile ; corolla ^^ i^- ^o^ig ! capsules erect 2. H. obovatum. 



1. Hymenodictyon excelsum, Wall, in Bo.rb. Fl. Tnd. ed. Carey, 

 V. 2 (1824) p. 149. A tree 30-40 ft. high ; bark nsually smooth. 

 Leaves membranous, 4-9 by 3-4^ in., ovate-elliptic, abruptly-acuminate, 

 pubescent on both surfaces, base narrowed into the petiole ; main nerves 

 7-10 pairs ; petioles 1-3 in. long, pubescent; stipules broadly oblong, 

 obtuse, recurved, deciduous. Flowers niunerous, greenish-white, fra- 

 grant, pedicelled, in clusters along the rhachis of dense cylindrical 

 pubescent spiciform racemes in erect terminal panicles ; floral leaves 

 shaped like the other leaves but smaller, colored, bidlate, on petioles 

 l|-2i in. long. Calyx yL in. long, uan-owly campanulate, pubescent ; 



