DiosPYuoa.] EBENACE2E. 17 



Recorded by Kanjilul from Thiino and Lachiwala in Dehra Dun, and from 

 Ranipur, Dholkhani and Badshahibagh on the Siwalik range. Flowers 

 during April aad May. D16TRIB. : Rajpur below Mussoorio at 2-3,000 ft. 

 (Edgeworth, Mackinnon) ; above Kalsi in Jauusar at2,f>00 ft. (Kanjilul) ; 

 in the Chauda district of the Central Provinces (Duthio) ; collected also 

 by Gamble in the following localities :— Santal Pargana^ in Bemr;il 

 (No. 10611) ; aud in the Madras districts of Ganjam (No. 13<"»57), 

 Anantapur (No. 20873), Bellary (No. 165S3) ; and by Ritchie in N. 

 Kanara (No. 972"). This tree has already been alluded toby KanjiUl on 

 p. 221 of his ' Forest Flora.' It appears to occupy a position inter- 

 mediate between />. montana proper and D. cordifolia. With the former 

 it agrees in general habit, stature, smoothness of bark and in the absence 

 of spines ; but it differs by having thick coriaceous leaves, the male 

 flowers are in threes, and there are twice the number of staminodes. 

 From D. cordifolia it may easily be distinguished by its smooth Lark, 

 absence of spines, the shape of the leaves, the glabrous awned anthers, 

 and by the number of the staminodes; it also differs by having a more 

 defined trunk with ascending, not spreading, branches. As far as one 

 can judge from herbarium specimens it comes very near Dalzell's D. 

 Qoindu, but the latter has more acuminate leaves, hairy anthers and a 

 much smaller fruit. 



4. D. cordifolia, Rozb. Cor. PI. i, 38, t. 50; Fl. hid. ii, 533; Royle 

 III. 262; Cooke Fl. Bomb, ii, 105. D. montaua, C..B. Clarke, in F. B. I. 

 Hi, 555 (in part) ; ^YattE.D.; Kanjilal For. Fl. 221 ; Brandts Lid. Tree 

 431 (in part). D. montana, var. cordifolia, Hiem. in Trahe. Camb> 

 Phil. Soc. xii, 222; Gamble Man. It id. Timb. 455; Prain Beng. PI. 653.— 

 Verm. Tendu, bistendu. 



A small tree, with a short often crooked trunk. Bark blackish or dark 

 brown, furrowed with longitudinal and transverse cracks. Trunk and 

 larger branches armed with many stout and often [branching spines. 

 Leaves \^-2\ in. long, oblong obtuse, cordate rounded or subtruncate 

 at the base, softy downy on both surfaces especially when young; 

 petiole 5-i in. long. ^NIai.e flowers axillary; peduncles 3-flowered, 

 pedicels V» > n - bjiig. Calyx % in. lo> g, hairy outside; lobes elliptic, 

 obtuse or subacute, pubescent inside and with ciliate maigins. Corolla 

 dull-white. ^ in. long, hairy outside ; lobes ( vaU-ol long, sub-acute. 

 Stamen* in opposite pairs, united below ; anthers not awned, pubescent. 

 F em. flowers solitary, pedicels {■ in. Calyx i£-in., recuived and twisted 

 in fruit ; lobes thin, oblong, obtuse. CorolUi'lobei obtuse. Staminodet 

 12, lanceolate, on long filaments. Fruit $-1 in. in diam., globose, yellow 

 when ripe. 



Abundant in many parts of the area especially in the snb-Himxlayan 

 tracts. Flowers in the hot season. Distkib. : Throughout tropic il 

 India, extending to Ceylon, Burma and N. Australia. Every pare of 

 this tree has a bitter taste, including the fruit, which has also a most 

 unpleasant smell. 



