Miliuxti.] AN0NACEAR 21 



13. Miliusa, Lesch. 



Trees or shrubs. Flowers 1-2-sexual, green or red, axillary or 

 extra-axillary, solitary fascicled or cymose. Sepals 8, small, 

 valvate. Petals 6, valvate, in 2 series ; outer smaller, like the 

 sepals; inner cohering when young by the margins, at length free. 

 Torus elongated, cylindric. Stamens definite or indefinite ; anthers 

 subdidymous, cells contiguous, ovoid, extrorse, connective hardly 

 apiculate. Ovaries indefinite, linear-oblong ; style oblong or very 

 short ; ovules 1-2 (-3-4). Fruit a ring of globose or oblong 

 1-many-seeded carpels. 



A moderate-sized tree, the whole plant tomentose ; flower stalks 2-4 in. 

 long; inner petals yellowish, glabrous within, flat (not saccate) at base ; 



fruit purple 1. velutiu <i . 



Leaves glabrous or pubescent only on the nerves beneath : 



A small tree; peduncles 1-1-5 in. long; carpels glabrous, on stalks 

 3-'5 in. long ; twigs early glabrous ; stamens very numerous 



'2. W in 1 1 tin mi. 

 Shrubs; peduncles '3-'8 in. long : 



Stamens very numerous ; twigs pubescent or strigose ; carpels short- 

 stalked or sessile : 



Carpels grey-tomentose ; twigs strigose 3. eriocarjxt. 



Carpels glabrous ; twigs pubescent 4. moiitium. 



Stamens 8-12 ; twigs glabrous ; leaves narrow-lanceolate, nerves 

 obscure 5. nilayirica. 



1. MILIUSA VELUTINA, Hook. f. & Thorns. ; F. B. I. i. 87 ; Bedd. 

 Ic. t. 87, and Fl. t. 37 : King Ann. Calc. iv. 158, t. 206. 



Forests of the N. Circars from Ganjam to Godavari ; 

 Cuddapah District. 



A common deciduous tree of the deciduous forests of N. 

 and C. India, especially with Sal. It gives a useful wood. 

 Vcrn. Hind. Domsal. 



2. MILIUSA WIGHTIANA, Hook. f. & Thorns. ; F. B. I. i. 87 ; 

 Bedd. Ic. t. 86 ; King Ann. Calc. iv. 156, t. 202s. 



Forests of the W. Ghats in the Nilgiris, Coimbatore, 

 Travaiicore and Tinnevelly, up to 5,000 ft., evergreen. 



3. MILIUSA EKIOCARPA, Dunn. M. indica, Hook. f. & Thorns. ; 

 F. B. I. i. 86 (var. tomentosa), (not of Lesch.) ; Bedd. Ic. 

 t. 85. 



Forests of the "W. Gluits in Mysore, Travancuru mid Tinne- 

 velly ; Hills of Salem. 



