Carallia.'] RHIZOPHORACEAE. 459 



3. BRTJGUIERA CYLINDRICA, W. & A. 311. B. caryophylloides, 

 Bl. ; F. B. I. ii. 438; Wt, 111. t. 210. B. malabarica, Am.; 

 F. B. I. ii. 438. 



Tidal forests of West Coast (Wight) ; E. Coast, Kistna 

 delta (Weld, Boileau), S. Arcot. 



A small tree with dark brown bark and red close-grained 

 wood. Yern. Tel. Yurada. 



5. Carallia, Roxb. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, petioled, ovate obovate or 

 elliptic, entire or serrulate, glabrous, shining. Flowers small, 

 in short 3-chotomous axillary branching cymes ; bracteoles at 

 base of calyx minute. Calyx-tube campanulate ; lobes 5-8, 

 valvate. Petals 5-8, inserted on a crenulate disk, clawed, entire 

 or bifid, toothed or lacerate. Stamens twice the number of the 

 petals and inserted with them on the disk ; anthers small. 

 Ovary semi-inferior, usually 3-5-celled, ovules 2 in each cell ; 

 style subulate ; stigma 3-5-lobed. Fruit small, globose, usually 

 1-celled, 1-seeded, indehiscent. Seed subreniform ; testa granular ; 

 albumen flesh'y; embryo curved. 



Leaves serrulate, ovate, acuminate, shining, 4-5 in. kng, 2-2*5 in. 

 broad, petals orbicular, the margins crenately waved ; stigma 



3-lobed 1 . lucida. 



Leaves entire, obovate, obtuse or shortly acute, the margins revolute, 

 3-5 in. long, 2 in. broad ; petals orbicular-cordate, the margins deeply 

 lacerate ; stigma 4-lobed 2. integerrima . 



1. CARALLIA LUCIDA, Roxb. Cor. PI. t. 211 ; W. & A. 312 ; 

 Wt. Ic. t. 605. 



N. Circars, in the lower hills (teste Roxburgh). 

 A small evergreen tree. Yern. Tel. Karalli. 



2. CARALLIA INTEGERRIMA, DC. ; F. B. I. ii. 439 in part; Wt. 

 111. t. 90 ; Bedd. Fl. t. 193. 



Deccan, hills of Cuddapah, Kambakam Hill in Chingleput 

 (Bourne) ; W. Coast and W. Ghats, in evergreen forests, 

 up to 4,000 ft. 

 A pretty evergreen tree, sometimes with aerial roots, the 



> flower buds frequently covered with yellow resin. Bark 

 dark grey, thin ; wood red, hard, with a pretty silver grain, 

 useful for carpentry. Yern. Hind. Kierpa ; Tel. Karalli ; 

 Kan. Andipunar; Mai. Yarauga. 



