8. Callicarpa.] 105. VERBENACEJE. 



rose-coloured in dense 2-cliotomous cymes abovit 1" long and 2" diam., 

 peduncles •3-1" long. Drupe •12-'18" diam., white. 



Edg-es of forest, steep slopes and ghats, open jungle and waste land. Champaran ! 

 Purneah ! Ranch! ghats and Porahat plateau, frequent ! Singbhum, rare ! 

 Palamau ! Manbhum. Camp. ! Fl. Aug.-Nov. Fr. Oct. -Dec. Evergreen. 



L. l-7-4"5" broad, base usuall.y rounded, upper surface more or less stellate ; sec. 

 n. strong, 10-15. Petiole 'o-l'S". Calj'x 'OS' with 4 minute teeth. Corolla "06". 



9. TECTONA, L.f.* 



Large trees Avitli stellate and simple tomentum, and opposite or 

 ternate large entire leaves. Flowers small in many-flowered 

 2-chotomous cymes disposed in large terminal panicles. Bracts 

 minute. Calyx campanulate, shortly 5-6-fid, in fruit accrescent, 

 bladdery or ovoid-urceohate with the movitli closed. Corolla with 

 short tube and spreading 5-6-fid limb, lobes subequal, short. Stamens 

 5-6, inserted almost at the base of the corolla, equal, exsert. Ovary 

 of 2 2-celled carpels, each cell with one lateral ovule. Fruit sub- 

 drupaceous, exocai-p nearly diy, endocarp bony 4- celled with a central 

 lacuna. Seeds erect, oblong, exalbuminous, with membranous testa. 



The endocarp, like some other genera of the family, is supplied with lateral 

 valves to the cells, no4 reaching the apex of the seed, which are thrown off on 

 germination. Germination epigeal. 



1. T. grandis, L. Sagun, H.; Eang, K.; Singuru, Sagwan, Or.; 

 Teka, Go7idi ; Teak. 



A large tree, but rarely over 50 ft. high and 4 ft. girth in our 

 province, with 4-sided and channelled branches and large elliptic or 

 obovate leaves 1-2 ft. long, scabrid above, with close stellate 

 tomentum beneath. Flowers white, short-pedicelled, in large erect 

 terminal bi'achiate panicles 1-2 or sometimes 3 ft. long, with short 

 lanceolate bracts. Calyx •12--17" in flower, large inflated and 1-1"5" 

 diam. in fruit. Corolla •2-'25" long, throat glabrovis. Drupe with a 

 thick spongy covering composed of matted hairs, endocarp with 1-4, 

 usually 1-2 seeds. 



Indigenous teak only just enters our province in the south-west, and is confined 

 to the west of Kalahandi and south-west corner of Patna State, Grieve, Cooper ! 

 There is also about SO acres of natural teak in the Baud State on the banks of the 

 Tel River, Cooper. Whether it was ever indigenous in Orissa proi)er is doubtful. 

 If so it was completely destroyed. There aie, however, plantations in Puri and 

 small ones in Angul, and the former are fairly promising. Fl. July-Aug. Fr. 

 Kov.-Jan. Deciduous Dec. -April. 



Small glands occur in most parts especially in the seedling. The cotyledons 

 after germination are somewhat fleshy, broadly elliptic-ovate, about -o-Q" long 

 with a short petiole. The young seedling leaves are hispid, denticulate or crenate, 

 hairy beneatli. 



The uses of teak ai-e too well known to need description. The leaves contain a 

 red pigment which gives rise to the Kol name. 



10. yiTEX, L. 



Trees or shrubs, often glandular and aromatic or foetid, with 

 opposite or 3-nately whorled digitately 3-5- rarely 1-foliolate leaves 

 and rather small lipped flowers in panicled or dichasial cymes. Calyx 



* For a most excellent short account of teak see BraiuJis, Forest Flora, p. 355. 



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