Omelina.] VERBE1S1ACE2E. 221 



Kanjilal For. Fl. 264 I Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 537 ; rrain Beng. VI. 

 829 ; Cooke Fl, Bomb ii, 424.— Vorn. Gamlidr, gumhdr, gambhdr 

 khamdra,sewan (Rajputana). 



An unarmed deciduous tree, up to 60 ft. high ; bark somewhat corky, 

 greyish outside and yellow within ; y<>ung parts covered with white 

 mealy pubescence. Leaves 4-8 in. long, broadly ovate, acuminate, 

 entire ; upper surface glabrous when mature, lower persistently 

 clothed with fulvous stellate hairs, base cordate or truncate and 

 shortly cuncate ; petioles 2-3 in. long, cylindric, puberulous, glandular 

 at the top. Flowers in small usually 3-flowered cymes which are 

 arranged along the branches of a densely fulvous-tomentose panicle 

 about 12 in. in length : buds clavate, angled ; bracts ^ in. long, 

 linear- lanceolate. Calyx broadly campanulate, } i n - long, densely 

 fulvous-tomentose ; teeth small, triangular, acute. Corolla 5-lobed, 

 1£ in. long, brownish-yellow, very hairy outside ; upper lip $-£ in. 

 long, deeply divided into 2 oblong obtuse lobes : lower lip about 

 twice as long, 3-lobed, the middle lobe mach longer than the lateral 

 ones and with a crenulate margin. Drupe f-1 in. long, ovoid or 

 pyriform, smooth, orange-yellow when ripe. 



Not uncommon within the area in moist sal forests, from Dehra Dun 

 eastwards along the Sub-Himalayan tracts ; also in Merwara and 

 Bundelkhand. Often grown in gardens. Flowers usually in April and 

 before the new leaves appear. Distbib. Outer Himalayan ranges from 

 the Punjab eastwards, up to 3,030 ft., Aravalli Hills, Bengal and 

 southwards to the Doccan, S. India and Ceylon; also in Burma, 

 extending to the Malay Islands and the Philippines. The wood, 

 which greatly resembles that of teak, is much valued, for it is 

 easily worked and lasts well under water. Various parts of the tree 

 are used medicinally, and the fruit is much eaten by various kinds 

 of deer. 



G. asiatica, L. Roxb. Fl. Ind. Hi, 87 ; Brandts For. Fl. 365; Ind. 

 Trees 509; F. B. I. iv, 582 ; Watt E. D.; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 537 ; 

 Prain Beng. PI. 829; CooJce Fl. Bomb, ii, 425.— A spinous shrub with 

 bright yellow flowers. ^ It is cultivated in gardens within the area, and 

 is found wild in 8. India, Ceylon and the Malay Archipelago. The plant 

 is useful for making fences. The root is used medicinally and also the 

 leaves which are said to render water mucilaginous. 



7. PREMNA, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iv, 571. 



Trees or shrubs, sometimes scandcnt. Leaves opposite, entire or 

 toothed. Flowers small, greenish or white, often polygamous, 

 pubescent, arranged in panicled or corymbose cymes ; bracts small, 

 narrow. Calyx small, cup-shaped ; limb truncate or minutely 2-5- 



