280 The Flowering Plants of Western India. 



ments long and slender, glands long- stalked, fruit round, 

 smooth, black, size of a pea. Chiknd, ivdras, miri. 



Matheran (Birdwood). Vingorla and Ghauts (D.). Of one variety 

 of L. sebifera, which H. ascribes in one form or other to all the 

 hotter parts of India, he says : " Except by the compound umbels, this 

 is nndistinguishable from L.tomentosa," and he favours the opinion 

 of Dalzell and Gibson, that tomentosa and sebifera are forms of one 

 species. " The bark is the maida-lakri of the shops" (DytnocTc). 



* L. Wightiana (Cylicodaphne W., D.), leaves broad -lanceolate, 

 crowded about the ends of the branches, umbels racemed, covered 

 with rusty hairs, bracts 4, stamens about 12, fruit like L. Stocksii, 

 but the cup sometimes toothed. Kengi. Ghauts (Lisboa). Canara 

 (If.). * L. zeylanica, a small tree, leaves variable, oblong, glaucous 

 beneath, bracts and flowers yellowish, silky, fruit roundish on the 

 disk-like perianth. Parwar Ghaut (Z).). 



5. CASSTTHA. 



Nothing could be less like the family generally than this genus of 

 leafless parasites, which, except for the species here given, is con- 

 fined to Australia and S. Africa. 



C. filiformis. All yellowish-green and downy, flowers very 

 small in small spikes, the enlarged perianth white, fleshy, 

 as large as a marble, containing the black pea-like fruit. 

 Akasvel. (See Ouscuta.) 



Common, especially in Guzerat. It runs over hedges in such a 

 tangled mass as to be suggestive of seaweed left on the shore by the 

 waves. It is larger in Guzerat than the Konkan. The fruit is like 

 that of the garden nasturtium (Tropceolum majus). G. calls it the 

 air plant. 



Cryptocaria, flowers small in panicles, perianth ovoid or top- 

 shaped, stamens as in Machilus, anthers 2-celled, * 0. Wightiana 

 (C. floribunda, D.), leaves oval oblong, glaucous beneath, flowers 

 yellow, fruit black, glossy, round or oblong. Tullawari, plentiful 

 (D.). From Canara southwards (F.). * C. Stocksii, very similar, 

 but the leaves much smaller and usually very obtuse, panicles short 

 and dense, flowers larger, fruit smaller, ovoid. Not in D. or G. 

 Canara (H.). 



Beilschmiedia, flowers and stamens as in the last, perianth tube 

 short, fruit quite free of the deciduous perianth. * B. fagifolia (S. 

 Roxburghiana, D.), a large tree, leaves oblong or broad-lanceolate, 

 shining, young flowers enclosed in broad, silky, deciduous scales, 

 fruit one to two inches long, oblong or roundish. Common on the 

 Ghauts (Z).). H. doubts about the identification of this tree. 



Actinodaphne, flowers dioecious, more or less umbelled, with densely- 

 imbricated bracts, perfect stamens 6 to 9, in 3 series, anthers 

 4-celled, fruit seated on the enlarged perianth tube. * A. HooJceri, 

 young leaves and branches almost woolly, leaves ovate lanceolate 

 with long points, flowers silky, fruit very small. Not in D. or G. 

 Konkan, Canara and Ghauts (H.). 



