264 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Rhus. 



1. RHUS MYSOBENSIS, Heyne ; F. B. I. ii. 9 ; W. & A. 172. 



Dry stony lands in the Deccan Hill country extending to 

 the N. slopes of the Nilgiris. 



A small shrub with hard reddish-yellow wood. The branches 

 are used for fencing. 



2. RHUS PANICULATA, Wall; F. B. I. ii. 10. 



E. Ghats, Rumpa Hills of Godavari, to 3,000 ft. (Gamble). 

 A small tree with hard reddish-brown wood. 



9i Nothopegia, BL 



Small trees. Leaves alternate, opposite or subopposite, cori- 

 aceous, entire, petiolate ; stipules 0. Flowers small, polygamous, 

 bracteate, in short axillary racemes or panicles of racemes. 

 Valyx small, 4-lobed, persistent, the lobes imbricate. Petals 4, 

 spreading, imbricate. Dish annular, 4-lobed. Stamens 4, inserted 

 under the margin of the disk ; filaments subulate, short in <$ ; 

 anthers shortly oblong, introrse, longitudinally dehiscing. Ovary 

 abortive in (J, in $ sessile, ovoid, 1 -celled ; style short; stigma 

 capitate; ovule pendulous from near the top of the cell from 

 a flattened funicle. Fruit a globose, acute or depressed, fleshy 

 drupe, tipped with the style, the flesh cellular containing resin. 

 Seed pendulous ; testa membranous ; albumen ; cotyledons 

 thick, plano-convex ; radicle very short, usually basal. 



Leaves alternate : 



Drupe with thick pericarp filled with black resin-cells, ovoid, acute 



at apex ; ultimate branchlets pubescent : 



Leaves coriaceous, obovate, shortly and bluntly apiculate, 3-4 in. 

 long by 1-1'5 in. broad, nerves 12-15 pairs, petiole stout, '3 in. 

 long ; $ racemes up to 1 in. long, dense, fascicled or paniculate, 



$ shorter ; drupe '5 in. in diam 1. Colebrookiana. 



Leaves thinly coriaceous, variable, from linear to lanceolate or 

 elliptic, obtusely acute, l'5-5 in. long by '5-1 in. broad, nerves 

 from 15-25 pairs, petiole slender, '1--2 in. long; $ racemes 

 slender, up to '5 in. long, ? rather long, both sometimes sub- 

 terminal ; drupe under "4 in. in diam., blue 2. Heyneana. 



Drupe with thin pericarp, transversely oblong, striate, depressed at 



apex : 



Leaves and branchlets glabrous : 



Leaves oblong, acuminate, up to 8 in. long by 3 in. broad, 

 nerves strong and parallel, about 20 pairs ; petiole twisted, 



