83. MYRSTNACE^. [4. ^giceras. 



1. A. solenacea, Roxb. Syn. A. humilis, F.B.I.; Gara Boi (the stream 



ear-ring), K. ; Nursing Kara, Batguri, Or. 



A small tree or large shrub attaining 25 ft. with large bright green 

 rather fleshy leaves clustered towards the ends of the branchlets and 

 mod.-sized rose-coloured waxy flowers with yellow stamens in 

 peduneled axillary often contracted or corymbose racemes. Berry 

 •3-"5" diam., depressed-globose, black when ripe. 



Aloiior streams, frequent in the forests. Champaran ! Purneah ! Chota Naijpur ! 

 Bonai, Cooper'. Mayurbhauj ! Orissa down to Sambalpurand Kalahandi ! probably 

 tlu'ono'hout our area in favourable positions. Fl. April-May. Fr. Oct.-Jan., 

 Evergreen. 



Leaves i-9'5" obovate-obloug or oblanceolate with numerous obscure secondary 

 nerve.s narrowed into a petiole •25" Ion"-. Peduncles l-:i" stout and raceme often 

 2-3". Kls. '7o-l" diam., both calyx and corolla covered with g-lands which are black 

 when dry. Sepals orbicular with membranous mariz-ins. erect, 



2. A. depressa, Clarke. 



A shrub 6-8 ft. with dark green obscurely-nerved wavj', narrow 

 leaves 2-4" and small pinkish flowers in racemed umbels. Petals 

 spreading Avaxy white with brown or pink scales. 



Near streams. Singbhum, deep valle.ys in the Karampoda forest, very rare!' 

 Bonai, Cooper I Mayurbhanj, common in' ravines above 3000 ft.! Fl. March-May, 

 Fr. May- June. 



Leaves lanceolate or narrowly oblong-lanceolate acuminate 2-4"5". Twigs rusty 

 tomentose. Leaves entire with numerous very fine sec. nerves, beneath with 

 numerous scattered rusty scales or glands and fewer above. Petiole •25-"S" rust.v 

 tomentose. Umbels cyiiiose on peduncles "o-l" long, axillary or clustei'ed on small 

 shoots and lateral from deciduous scale-leaves. Pedicels •15-'2o''. Sepals spread- 

 ing lanceolate pubescent. Petals -12" long with glands. Fruit globose black •2.o" 

 diam. 



3. A. noY. sp. near A. oblonga, A. DC, and A. solenacea, Roxh. 



This is an impei-fectly known species sent to me by Mr. Haslett 

 Avithout field notes. 



Apparently a shrub. L. elliptic-lanceolate 2-3" long at time of 

 floAvering (probably immature), narroAA-ed both ends, punctate, sec. n. 

 fine indistinct, petiole about •2-"3". Inflorescence at the base of the 

 neAv shoots, cliiefly from the scars of fallen scales, few axillary, 

 corymbose, peduncles 1-2" long, pedicels •Q-S". Calyx spreading,, 

 sepals imbricate •1-'12", suborbicular, obtuse or rounded, copiously 

 glandular, margins not membranous. Corolla 6- 75" diam., rotate, 

 petals oblong-ovate acute, gland- dotted. Anthers linear-oblong -25" 

 less distinctly glandular than in A. solenacea. Ovules over 12. 



Southern range, Puri, Ha^leit ! Fl. April. 



It differs from A. solenacea in the small leaves and their shape, in the inflorescence 

 at the base of the liew shoots, sepals not memlwanoiis at margin and other points. 

 From J. ohloiiga in differs in the many-flowered (9- or more-) corymbose racemes, 

 larger flowers and less conspicuous leaf nervation. In A. oblonga also the tiowerii. 

 appear before the fall of the mature leaves as the.v do in A. ^oleuacen. 



4. iEGICERAS, Gaertn. 



A shrub or small tree Avith entire coriaceous sessile or subsessile 

 leaves and axillary terminal or leaf-opjjosed ebracteate umbels Avith 

 slender pedicels. Fls. 2-sexual. Sepals imbricate. Corolla-tube 

 short, petals 5 acute tAvisted to the right in bud. Stamens on the 



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