220 VERBENACMJE. [Tectosa. 



terminal panicles ; bracts small, narrow. Calyx campanulate, shortly 

 5-6-lobed, enlarged in fruit. Corolla white, tube short, limb with 

 5 or 6 nearly equal spreading imbricate lobes. Stamens 

 5 or 6, adnate to the base of the corolla, equal, exserted, anthers 

 ovate or oblong. Ovary 4-celled, with 1 ovule in each cell, style 

 linear, stigma shortly bifid. Fruit a drupe, enclosed in the enlarged 

 4-celled bladder-like calyx, endocarp bony. — Species 3, two of which 

 are Indian, and the third is a native of the Philippine Islands. 



T. grandis, Linn. f. Suppl* 151 ; Roxb.; Fl. Ind. i, 600 ; Boyle III. 

 299 ; Brand. For. FL 354, t 44 ; Ind. Trees 505 ; F. B. I. ir, 570 ; Watt 

 E. D.; Comm. Prod, Ind.; Kanjilal For. Fl. 269 ; Gamble Man. Ind, Timb. 

 526 ; Prain Beng. PI. 828 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb., ii, 424.— V em. Sdyun, Saigun, 

 Sdj— The Teak-tree. 



A large deciduous tree, 80-120 ft. high ; branchlets 4-angular, stellately 

 tomentose. Leaves about 12 in. loDg (or much larger in seedling 

 specimens^, elliptic or obovate, acute or accuminate, entire, usually 

 cuneate at the base ; upper surface rough, but glabrous, the lower 

 densely clothed with grey or yellowish tomentum, main lateral nerves 

 8-10 pairs. Flowers many, on short pedicels and arranged in large 

 terminal much-branched tomentose cymose panicles 1-3 ft. long ; 

 bracts at the forks lanceolate, those beneath the calyx narrower. 

 Calyx (in flower) i in. long, broadly campanulate, stellately tomentose ; 

 lobes o73 in- long, subequal, spreading ; the whole calyx ultimately 

 enlarging to lin. or more and forming a membranous bladder-like 

 covering to the fruit. Corolla white, glabrous, limb 5 in. across ; 

 lobes subequal, spreading. Fruit subglobose, £ in. in diam., somewhat 

 4-lobed ; pericarp soft, densely clothed with felted stellate hairs. 



6. GMELINA, Linn.; Fl. Brit. Ind. iv, 581. 



Trees or shrubs, sometimes spinous ; young shoots usually 

 tomentose. Leaves opposite, entire toothed or lobed. Flowers 

 lar^e, yellow or brownish, arranged in panicled usually tomentose 

 cyme's ; bracts usually narrow, rarely leaf -like, bracteoles none. 

 Calyx campanulate, shortly 5 or 4-toothed or subentire, persistent 

 and unaltered in fruit. Corolla 2 -lipped ; tube slender below, 

 swollen upwards, limb 5 or 4-lobed. Stamens didynamous, sub- 

 exserted; anthers with oblong more or less separate cells. Ovary 4- 

 celled, with 1 ovule in each cell, style slender^ stigma shortly bifid. 

 Fruit a succulent drupe ; endocarp bony, undivided, 4 or 2-celled.— 

 Species about 8, in India, China, 3Ialaya and Australia. 



G. arborea, Eoxb. Eort. Beng. 46 ; Fl. Ind. Hi, 84 ; Boyle III. 299 ; 

 Brandis For. Fl. 364 ; Ind. Trees 509 ; F. B. I. iv, 581 ; Watt F. D.; 



