84 BOHAGINACEM. [Cobdia. 



a smaller tree than C. Myxa and much more glabrous ; the leaves are 

 smaller and narrower, and the calyx tube when in flower is more cylin- 

 drical. In foliage it somewhat resembles C. rronoica, Roxb., but the 

 upper surface of the leaves is devoid of the raised white dots which 

 characterize the latter. Brandis describes the heartwood as brown and 

 beautifully mottled on a radial section. In Egypt the flowers are said 

 to be fragrant. 



3i C. Macleodii, Hk.f.and T.in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii, 128 ; Brandis 

 For. Fl. 337 ; Ind. Trees 479 ; F. B. I. iv. 139 ; Watt E. D. ; Gamble Man. 

 Ind. Timb. 502 ; Prain Beng. PI. 714 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb, ii, 200.— Vern. 

 Dhengan. 



A medium -sized deciduous tree up to 40 ft- high ; the young parts under- 

 side of leaves and inflorescence clothed with grey or fulvous tomentum. 

 Leaves alternate or suboppoeite, 3-6 in. long, firm and hard when 

 mature, ovate, cordate, obtuse, 3-5-nerved at the base ; upper surface- 

 pubescent when young, becoming rough shining and covered with white 

 raised disks and with the nerves deeply impressed when old; lower 

 surface densely clothed with grey or fulvous tomentum ; petioles 1-2 in.,, 

 densely tomentose. Flowers white, subsessile, in dense terminal and 

 axillary panicled tomentose cymes. Calyx % in. long, obconic, ribbed 

 and tomentose ; lobes unequal, short, obtuse, spreading or reflexed j 

 male flowers with rudimentary ovary, but without style or stigma. 

 Stamens usually 6, exserted, filaments hairy at the base, anthers of male- 

 flowers large. Drupe about | in. long, ovoid, acute. 



In the Sub-Himalayan tracts of Pilibhit and N - . Oudh, also in Bundel- 

 khand and Eajputana. Flowers during April and May. Distrib. 

 Chota Nagpur, C. India and in the C. Provinces, Bombay, Deccan, 

 Orissa and the drears. The timber is hard and tough, and much used 

 for making carts, agricultural implements and furniture, also for 

 fishing rods. The heart- wood is light brown, mottled with darker veins. 

 The fruit is not edible. 



4. C. vestita, Hk. f. and T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii, 128 ; Brandis For. 

 Fl. 338 j Ind. Trees 480 ; F. B. I. iv, 139 ; Watt E. D. > Kanjilal For. Fl. 

 249 ; Gamble Man. Ind Timb. 502 ; Collett Fl. Siml. 330. C. incana, 

 Boyle III. 306 (name only).— Vem. Kum-%>aiman,bai>ola (Dehra Dun), 

 latora (Oudb), godela (Ajmere). 



A small deciduous tree with a low rounded crown, up to 30 ft. high ; youngs 

 parts, under-side of leaves and inflorescence clothed with grey or 

 fulvous pubescence. Bark grey or greenish, smooth, exfoliating when 

 old in large woody scales, inner bark silvery-grey. Leaves coriaceous,, 

 scabrous above, tomentose beneath until mature, usually 3-nerved from 

 near the base ; petioles 1-lfc in- long. Flowers pedicelled, yellowish- 

 white, in dense compound cymes, the male flowers usually in unilateral 

 racemes. Calyx tubular-clavate, about -£ in . long, teeth unequal. 

 Corolla-tube | in. long, equalling the calyx ; lobes ovate-oblong, spread- 



