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A small much-branched evergreen tree with a thin dark-grey bark ; 
? young parts and inflorescence tawny or rusty-pubescent. Leaves 
alternate, variable in size and shape, 3-6 in. long, ovate ovate-oblong 
or lanceolate, acuminate, entire or sometimes toothed, glabrous above, 
sub-glaucously pubescent and with many close-set orbicular reddish 
glands beneath, reticulately veined, base rounded or acute, strongly 
3-nerved and with 4-7 pairs of lateral nerves above the basal ones : 
petiole about half the length of the blade, fulvous-pubescent and with 
two small sessile glands one on each side of the summit. Flowers 
small, dicecious. MALE flowers se&sile or nearly so, in erect terminal 
spikes longer than the leaves. Sepals usually 4, lanceolate, acute. 
Frm. flowers sessile in short spikes. Sepals 3 or 4. Capsules 4-4 in. 
in diam., 3-lobed and 3-valved, covered with a bright red powder 
composed of fine grains of a resinous substance mixed with minute 
stellate hairs. Seeds about } in. in diam., subglobose, black. 
Very common within the area, and often associated with sal. Flowers 
during the cold season and the fruit ripens from March to May 
DistriB.: Outer Himalayan ranges from the Indus eastwards, up to 
4.500 ft.; and throughout tropical India; extending to Ceylon, 
Burma, the Andaman and Malay Islands, China and Australia. The 
red resinous grains with which the ripe capsules are covered is the 
well known kamela powder. It is much valued as a dye, especially 
for silk, and is also extensively used as a vermifuge. The bark is 
sometimes employed in tanning, and the wood affords good fuel. 
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18. HOMONOIA, Lour.; FI. Brit. Ind. v, 455. 
Rigid shrubs. Leaves alternate, long, narrow and subentire or 
short and toothed, glandular-lepidote. Flowers usually dicecious, 
apetalous and without any disk, arranged in many-or few-flowered 
axillary spikes, or from the old wood. MALE flowers: Calyx 
globose, splitting into 3 valvate segments. Stamens many, in a 
dense globose cluster of branched filaments ; anther-cells  sub- 
globose, divaricate, connective obscure. /Pistillode none. Frm. 
flowers: Sepals 5-8, narrow, unequal, imbricate, caducous. 
Ovary 3-celled, styles entire, spreading, papillose, ovules solitary in 
each cell. Fruit a small capsule of 3smooth 2-valved cocci, Seeds 
rounded on the back, slightly angular on the inner face; testa 
crustaceous, hard with a thin fleshy coat, albumen fleshy, coty- 
ledons broad and flat.—Species 3 or 4, Indian or Malayan. 
