258 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Buchanania. 



quite entire; stipules 0. Flowers small, white, hermaphrodite, in 

 terminal and axillary branched panicles. Calyx short, 3-5-toothed 

 or -lobed, persistent, imbricate. Petals 4-5, ovate or oblong, 

 imbricate, at length recurved. Dixk thick, urceolate or cupular, 

 5-lobed. Stamens 8-10, free, inserted at the base of the disk ; 

 filaments linear ; anthers ovate. Ovary of 5-6 free carpels, 

 seated in the cavity of the disk, one fertile, the rest imperfect ; 

 style short; stigma truncate; ovule 1, pendulous from a basal 

 funicle. Fruit a small slightly fleshy lenticular drupe; stone 

 crustaceous or bony, 2-valved. Seed gibbous, acute at one end ; 

 albumen ; cotyledons thick ; radicle superior. 



Inflorescence pubescent ; leaves coriaceous : 



Leaves broadly oblong, obtuse or emarginate, over 6 in. long and 

 2 in. broad, petiole stout, main nerves straight and parallel ; 

 flowers '3 in. in diam., the petals oblong ; drupe black, '3-'6 in. 



in diam 1. Lanzan. 



Leaves narrowly oblong, under 6 in. long, 2 in. broad ; petiole rather 

 slender : 



Leaves elliptic-oblong, obtuse or very slightly acute at apex, 

 rusty villous beneath when young, main nerves regular, sub- 

 horizontal, straight and parallel ; flowers '25-'3 in. in diam., the 



petals oblong 2. Barberi. 



Leaves oblong-lanceolate, acuminate at apex, glabrous beneath, 

 main nerves ascending, curved and branched ; flowers '15 in. in 

 diam;, the petals ovate obtuse ; drupe red, '6 in. in diam. 



3. lanceolata. 



Inflorescence glabrous ; leaves scarcely coriaceous, obtuse and 

 emarginate, under 6 in. long, 2 in. broad, main nerves curved, 

 irregular, petiole slender; flowers *2 in. in diam., petals obtuse; 

 drupe black, '5 in. in diam 4. angustifolia. 



1. BUCHANANIA LANZAN, Spreng. B. latifolia, Roxb.; F. B. I. 

 ii. 23; W. &. A. 169; Bedd. Fl. t. 165. 



Deciduous forests in all Districts, common, up to 4,000 ft. 

 A tree with conspicuous rough bark tessellated in pro- 

 minent squares, and a greyish-brown moderately hard 

 wood of little value. It gives a copious gum and the 

 kernels of the seeds are collected and eaten. Yern. Hind. 

 Piar; Mar. Chironji ; Ur. Charu ; Tarn. Morala ; Tel. Morli, 

 Sara ; Kan. Nurkul ; Mai. Munga pera. 



