Oafjeckia.} MI.I.ASTOMA( . 100 



20 species of shrubs or small trees. M. umbellatum, Burm. ; Beddome t. 206 ; 

 Kurz i. 516. Vern. Udatalli, Kan., is ;i small tree of the hills of South India, 

 Arracan and the Andamans, whose wood is said by Bcddome to be like boxwood and 

 by VunSomeren to be durable. M. edule, Koxb. ; ISt-ildom" cxiii. ; Kurz i. 512. Vern. 

 Alii, Tel.; Anjan, kurpa, Bombay, is a small tree of the Eastern (ihals of South 

 India, Teiiasscrim and the .Audamans, with a strong, hard wood and edible fruit, while 

 M. amabilc, Bedd. and M. yracilc, Bedd. are small trees of the Western Ghats. 

 The remaining genera contain shrubs or climbers oi' little forest interest. 



1. OSBECKIA, Linn. 

 Contains a number of handsome-flowering herbs and shrubs of little importance. 



1. 0. crinita, Benth.; Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 517. 0. stellaia, Don; 

 Gamble 41. Vern. Number, Lepcha. 



A shrub. Bark greyish brown, smooth. Wood light brown, moder- 

 ately bard. Annual rings marked by a wbite line and more numerous 

 pores. Pores moderate-sized, scanty. Medullary rays crooked, fine, tbe 

 distance between tbe rays equal to tbe diameter of tbe pores. 



Eastern Himalaya and Khasia Hills from 4,000 to 8,000 feet. 

 A very pretty shrub, common about Darjeeling. 



E 3310. Darjeeling, 6,500 feet. 



2. MELASTOMA, Linn. 

 Four Indian species. 



1. M, Malabathricum, Linn.; Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 523; Roxb. Fl. Ind. 

 ii. 405; Kurz i. 503; Gamble 41. The Indian Rhododendron. Vern. 

 Choulisy, Nep. ; Tungsram, Lepcha; Shapti, lunka, Mecbi; Myetpyai, 

 Burm. 



A large shrub. Back reddish brown, thin, smooth. Wood moier- 

 ately bard, light brown, with medullary patches. Pores moderate-sized, 

 often in concentric groups, and surrounded with \\hite tissue. Medul- 

 lary rays short, fine to moderately broad, numerous, unequally distri- 

 buted. Concentric bands of soft tissue often joining the pores. 



Throughout India up to 6,000 feet, chiefly near watercourses. 



This is probably the Lutki bush on which, according to Mr. Brownlow of Cachar 

 (Journal of the Agri-Horticultural Society of Calcutta), the silkworm Atlacus Atlas is 

 often found, and i'ed on which it gives a very white silk. 



E 3275. Borojhar Eeserve, W. Duars. 



ORDER XLVIII. LYTHRARIE^J. 



Contains 8 Indian Genera of trees or shrubs all belonging to the tribe Lythreae. 

 Of these, 6 Genera are here described. Pemphis acidufa, Font.; Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 

 573 ; 13eddoine cxvii. ; Kurz i. 518, is an evergreen shrub of the sea-coast of Malabar, 

 Tenasserim and the Andamana, while Crypteronia panicnlata, 131. ; Kurz i. 519. 

 (T. pulescens 131. and C. </Iabr, Ul. in Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 574.) Vern. Ananpho, 

 ljurin., is an evergreen tive of the upper tropical and moist forests ot Chittagong and 

 Burma. Brandis in his Burma List. 1862, No. 113, says it has a widish, close but not 

 straight-grained wood, used occasionally for cart-wheels, but more usually for burning. 



Medullary rays fine or very fine and very numerous. 



