1. CoBDiA.] 95. BORAGINACEJE. 



2. C. monica, Roxh. 



A shrub usually under 6 ft. in our urea, or a small gnarled tree, 

 with the flowers and new leaves fasicled or densely corymbose, on 

 short shoots. Shoots and new leaves beneath white- or fulvous- 

 tomentose, old leaves elliptic, ovate or obovate, 1-3", obtuse, dentate 

 or crenate-denticulate with strong- excurrent nerves, pubescent 

 beneath, scabrous above, with close white cystoliths. Corymbs or 

 fascicles only 1-2" diam., tomentose. Fruiting calyx broadly cam- 

 panulate, -3" long and broad, shortly irregularly lobed, scarcely 

 ribbed. Drupe ovoid •4--5" yellow, beaked when young. 



T^^^fP"?"' Hazaribagh and Palamau, in dry jungles ! Common on the Rhotas 

 cJifts, bhahabad ! From Orissa southwards, Clarke {in F.J3.I.),hut there appear to 

 be no specimens from our part of Orissa. Fl. May-June. Fr. Nov.-Dec. Deciduous, 

 flowers with the new leaves like most of the species. 



Branchlets brown, not markedly lenticillate. L. tomentose both sides when 

 young with 3-5 strong sec n. of which one from the base, branches ending as 

 points m the margin, tertiaries strong sub-parallel raised beneath, marginal nerve 

 strong. Petiole -25- -4". Flower buds apiculate, calyx in flower -2" in fruit -3" 

 pubescent or tomentose. teeth villous. Corolla lobes "-2". narrow. " Males usually 

 4-androus, fem. 5-androus. Stone 4-celled, drilled at apex, 3 cells barren," Clarke. 



3. C. myxa, L* Hemrum, K. ; Buch, S. ; Bahuar, Balanjan, Kharw.; 



Lasura, H. : Bohari, Beng. ■ Dhuanl, Gwhalo, Or. ; Bahalphal 

 (Sambalpur) ; Sebesten. 

 A small tree, usually with drooping branches and ashen twigs, only 

 hairy when young. Leaves orbicular, ell. -oblong or obovate, but 

 neither cordate (rarely with a very short triangular tip) nor acumi- 

 nate, 2-5-5" long, entire or sinuate, not, or scarcely, scabrid above, 

 hairy in the nerve-axils beneath. Petiole slender -T-lo". Flowers 

 white, fragrant, in corymbose, often panicled glabrous cymes usually 

 terminating short lateral branches, sometimes panicle long-peduncled. 

 Calyx not ribbed, globose in bud, funnel-shaped ■16--2" in flower, soon 

 accrescent becoming broadly campanulate to saucer-shaped and 

 •5--75" diam. in fruit. Fruit conical when young, ripe ovoid -b-ld", 

 yellowish or pinkish, glassy, with very viscous 1 -seeded pulp. 



Frequent throughout the area ! Most usual in the damper districts or along 

 streams in the dryer. Fl. March- April. Fr. July-Aug. Nearly evergreen, flowers 

 with well-develo])ed leaves. 



Bark brown with shallow wrinkles and furrows, blaze at first nearly white 

 quickly turning brown on exposure to the air. Innovations often densely fulvous 

 somewhat stellate-pubescent and with longer hairs intermixed. L. 3-6-nerved at 

 the l)ase with other sec. n. 3-4 each side, smooth above to the naked eye l)ut under 

 the lens marked with small white dots, rarely also with scattered and grouped 

 discs, nervules very reticulate. Cymes 2-4" diam. Corolla-tube as long a^s calyx, 

 lobes -17" long, linear-oblong. 



The wood is used for agricultural implements and as fuel. The fruit is said to 

 be eaten but is exceedingly viscous. "The mucilage is demulcent and highly 

 esteemed m coughs, etc. The bark is a useful astringent and an infusion is used 

 as a gargle," Nadkai-ni. 



Var. obliqua, Willd. (sp.). This appears scarcely to differfrom C. wvxa except by 

 being pubescent and by the larger fruit. See also under 4, 



4. C. sp. 



A small tree, glabrous or nearly so except the shoots, with 



*J^^"f~-^"^'^^""'^^" (^^'*' ^"'^•' l^l'^-' restricts mi/xa to the Asia Minor tree 

 with short expanded style arms, and calls the Indian tree ohliqua which has 

 usually more slender arms. 



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