Order 62. Cornacece. 137 



Foot of Earn Ghaut and similar places, pretty common (!>.) H. 

 calls it a large glabrous tree. It is a southern species. 



To this order belong two very common garden shrubs, Panax 

 cochleatum, shell-leaved panax, with simple large and very hollow 

 leaves, and P. fruficosum with large supra-decompound leaves. 



ORDER 62. CORNACE^l. 



Trees or shrubs, with small regular flowers, calyx tube 

 united to the ovary, stamens inserted with the petals into a 

 fleshy disk, ovary inferior, style single. 



This is a small order of the northern hemisphere, allied to the 

 two last, but differing from Umbeliiferee in the flowers not being in 

 umbels, and from Araliaceae in having a single style. The cornel or 

 dog-wood (Cornus sangninea) is a well-known shrub or small tree 

 of English hedges. The wood throughout the order is very hard. 



ALANGIUM. Leaves alternate entire, petals 5 to 10, stamens 

 twice as many, style very long, stigma large capitate, fruit a 

 berry crowned by the calyx limb. 



A. Lamarckii. A small tree with grey bark and occasional 

 thorns, leaves oblong or lanceolate, slightly hairy, flowers in 

 small fascicles on the naked branches very fragrant, calyx teeth 

 minute, petals varying in number, yellowish white, curled 

 back ; stamens about 20, long, white, bearded at the base, 

 disk white and fleshy, berry like a gooseberry, dark red with 

 one large seed embedded in pulp. Ankul, Kdla alcol. 



Konkans. Also Peccan and Gnzerat (-D.). Throughout India, very ' 

 common (-ff.). 



