302 LABIATE. [Tencnum. 



6. TEUCRIUM, Linn. 



1. T. macrostachyum, Wall. ; Gamble 62. Vern. Matsola, gurupis, 

 Nep. ; Chung, Lepcha. 



A small evergreen tree. Bark thin, corky. Wood yellowish white, 

 moderately hard, close and even-grained. Pores small, in groups. 

 Medullary rays moderately broad, numerous. Annual rings indistinctly 

 marked. 



Eastern Himalaya from Nepal eastwards, Khasia Hills and Sylhet, from 5,000 to 

 8,000 feet. 



Growth rapid, 3 to 5 rings per inch of radius. Weight, 38 to 41 Ibs. per cubic 

 foot. A common tree in second growth forests in the Sikkim Hills, and easily recog- 

 nised by its greyish foliage and long erect spikes of dirty white flowers with long- 

 exserted stamens. Its wood is a fair fuel. It coppices well and strikes easily from 

 cuttings. 



Ibs. 



E 2411. Eangbiil, Darjeeling, 7,000 feet 41 



E 3376. Darjeeling, 6,500 feet 38 



ORDER LXXXIII. NYCTAGINEJE. 



Contains one genus of Indian trees Pisonia aculeata, Linn. ; Beddome clxxv. ; 

 Kurz ii. 279, is a large straggling climber of Southern India and of the coast forests 

 of Burma and the Andaman Islands. P. alba, Span, and P. umbellifera, Seem. ; 

 Kurz ii. 279, 280, are evergreen trees of the coast forests of the Andamans- To this 

 family belong the beautiful Bougainvilleas, common in gardens, and the Marvel of 

 Peru, Mirabilis Jalapa, cultivated or run wild over the greater part of India. 



ORDER LXXXIV. AMARANTACEJE. 



A large genus of herbaceous plants containing only 2 or 3 genera of Indian shrubs. 

 Deeringia baccata, Moq. ; Gamble 63 (2). celosioides, K. Br. ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 

 682) Vern, G-ola mohani, Beng. ; Eala lodri, Kumaun ; Latman, Hind., is a common 

 climber of Northern India, climbing over bushes and covering them in the cold 

 season with its long branches covered with bright crimson berries. 



1. RODETIA, Moquin-Tandon. 



1. R, amherstiana, Moq. Deeringia Amherstiana, Wall. Vern. 

 Bilga, Koti. 



A large straggling shrub, with thin, brown, rough bark. Wood grey, 

 soft, divided by concentric and anastomosing bands of cellular tissue 

 into irregular, narrow, concentric belts, which are subdivided into oblong 

 porous areas by short medullary rays varying in breadth, which often 

 gradually widen where they join the concentric bands of cellular tissue. 

 Pores moderate-sized, numerous. 



North-west Himalaya and Burma. 



Weight, our specimen gives 41 Ibs. per cubic foot. It seems to be often grown as 

 a hedge; the young shoots are eaten fried in ^lu-c, and a black dye is obtained from 

 the leaves. The berries, which are bright crimson, resembling those of Deerniyia, arc 



also eaten. 



Ibs. 



- H 3097. Koti, near Simla, 6,000 feet 41 



