Schbebeba.] OLEACEM. 25 



or euneate ; upper surface scabrous with bulbous-based hairs, pubes, 

 cent beneath, margin slightly recurved, entire or with distant teeth,' 

 principal nerves conspicuons beneath. Flowers very fragrant, bracts 

 ovate or snborbicular, apiculate, hairy. Calyx $-£ in. long, hairy out- 

 side, glabrous w;thin. Corolla -tube £ in. long, limb about as long as 

 the tube, 5-8-lobod, lobes obcurdate. Capsule £-} in. in length and 

 breadth, glabrous, emarginato at the apex. 



Forests of Dehra Dun and of the Siwalik range, and in the Sub- 

 Himalayan tracts of Kohilkhand and N. Oudh ; also in Bundelkhand. 

 Flowers August, to October. Distbib. Ascends to 5,000 feet on the' 

 outer Himalayan ranges from the Chenab to Nepal, extending east- 

 ward* to Assam and Bengal, and southwards through Central India as 

 far as the Godaveri ; found also in Burma. The fragrant flowers, which 

 open during the night and fall to the ground in the early morning, are 

 made into garlands and used in Hindu ceremonies. They are also 

 collected for the preparation of an orange-cooured dye yielded by 

 the tubes of the corollas. The rough leaves are employed "for polish- 

 ing wood and also medicinally. The wood affords excellent fuel. 



3. SCHREBERA, Roxb. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iii, 604. 



Glabrous trees with opposite iiuparipinnate leaves. Flowers in 

 terminal 2-3-chotoinous cymes, bracts small. Calyx tabular-cam pa- 

 nulate, truncate or unequally 4-6-lobed. Corolla salver-shaped, tube 

 cylindric ; lobes 4-7, imbricate, spreading. Stamens 2, attached near 

 the top of the corolla-tube ; filaments short, anthers included or 

 slightly exserted. _ Ovary 2-cel led, style cylindric, stigma shortly 2 

 lobed ; ovules 3-4 in each cell, pendulous. Capsule obovoid, 2-celleo, 

 loculicidally 2-valved, woody. Seeds- pendulous, winged, albumen' 

 ; cotyledons plano-convex or contorted, radicle superior. — Species 

 1, one Iudian and three in Africa. 



S. swietcnioides, Roxb. Cor. PI. ii, i. t. 101 ; FL I ml. i (1820) 109 • 

 Br« r. Fl. 305; Watt E. D. ; F. B. I. iii, 604 ; Prain Ben g. PI. 600 ■ 



Cooke Fl. Bomb, ii, 116. -Veru. Moka, ghanta (Bundelkhand). 



A medium-sized tree, 40-50 feet high, with grey scabrous bark ; youn g 

 parts pubescent. Leaves deciduous, common petiole 2-3 in. long ; I 

 lets 7-'.', opposite, glabrous when mature, the lowest pair smaller /blade. 

 2-4 in. long, ovate or ovate-hinceolate, bluntly acuminate, base oi: 

 oblique ; main lateral nerves 6-8 pairs. Cymes 3-6 in. long and about 

 as wide, many-flowered; bracts small, linear, pubescent. Flo»ers 

 shortly pedicelled, fragrant. Calyx J in. long, pubescent, limb 

 irregularly 4-6-toothed or subtruncate. Corolla £ in. long, white 

 with elevated brown glandular dots on the inner surface of the elliptic- 



