95. BORAGINAGEM. [1. Cordia. 



broAvn tAvigs sparingly marked with large lenticels and large ovate 

 leaves 6-8" long. Leaves nearly smooth above with cystoliths sunk in 

 the surface, base unequal not 3-nerved but with one or two very strong 

 nerves a little above the base and a weaker nerve below them, sec. n. 

 above the sub-basal ones about 4, tertiaries strong scalariform,. 

 nervules inconspicuous. Petiole stout •6-1-2", lenticellate. In- 

 florescence not seen. 



Santal Parganas ! 



I am vmable to match this tree either in the herbarium or hy descriptions. The- 

 leaf tip is usually suddenlj- acute, the margin entire with a marginal nerve only 

 rarelj^ interrupted by the mucronate ending of a nervule. In the Fl . Ck. Nag. it- 

 was included with the next under C. obliqua, but a type leaf of Willdenow's 

 C, obliqua at Kew is shallowly cordate, 5-nerved at base with 3 sec. n. above base- 

 and tertiarj^ nerves as in C. myxa, and nervules very reticulate raised beneath,, 

 under-surface uniformly thinlj- pubescent. 



5. C. sp. nov, ? 



This may be the same species as the last, from which it differs very 

 much at first sight by the coarsely crenate-dentate leaves Avith more 

 acuminate tip. The lenticellate brown twigs and petioles are 

 similar, the base of the leaves sometimes sub-cordate, the venation 

 similar, bvit the sec. n. all end in a tooth with a mucroaate point. 



Kodernm forests, Hazaribagh ! 



Neither of these can be considered as varieties of C. myxa, and approach more 

 nearly in appearance to C grandi?, 



6. C. Macleodii, H.f. cf- T. Porponda, Ho. ; Torai-sing, M. ; Jugia, S. ; 



Bharwar, Belwanjan, Kharw.; Ghanti, Or.; Sambhar-singha . 

 (Sambalpur). 



A small tree with twigs, leaves beneath, and inflorescence covered 

 with a dense felted white or tawny tomentum. Leaves broadly ovate 

 entire, often deeply cordate, obtuse or very bluntly acuminate, 4-8" 

 long or sometimes up to 10", with 3-5 nerves from or from near the 

 base and other venation as in Nos. 4 and 5. Petioles 1-5-3", much 

 longer in proportion to blade than in last two species. Flowers 

 white in dense tomentose corymbs 2-4" diam. Young fruit beaked, 

 ripe subglobose, yellowish, somewhat tomentose, apiculate, seated in 

 the broadly campanulate toothed or lobed ribbed or striate calyx. 



Central and Southern areas, common on the hills except the coastal regions, 

 whence I have no record of it. Fls. March-April. Fr. May-June. Nearly ever- 

 green. Flowers with the new leaves. 



Bark light grey, blaze pale, turning brown. Mature leaves somewhat rugose 

 above and with numerous close cystoliths. Corj'mbs terminal, often appearing 

 leaf-opposed or extra-axillary. Calyx in flower •25", tubular-clavate. Petals "6" or 

 less, oblong. 



The wood is used for cattle-yokes, axe-handles and agricultural implements. 

 Gamble states that it is light brown, beautifullj' even-grained and very hard. 



Var. ?. 



Leaves minutely pubescent, not at all tomentose, beneath, more 

 acuminate than in the type and apiculate. Petioles only -8-1" long. 



Singbhum! 



This also might be a separate species, but the inflorescence has not been 

 collected. It differs from 4 and 5 in the want of conspicuous lenticels, in the 

 indumentum, from No. 4 in the shape of the leaves, and from No. 5 in their 



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