488 FLORA OF MADRAS. ~_Careya. 



celled, crowned by an annular disk ; ovules many, in 2 rows in 

 each cell, on vertical axile placentas ; style long, filiform ; stigma 

 small. Fruit a large globose fibrous berry, crowned by the 

 persistent calyx-limb. Seeds numerous, in fleshy pulp ; albumen 

 ; embryo large with obsolete cotyledons. 



CAREYA AEBOREA, Roxb. Cor. PL t. 218 ; F. B. I. ii. 511 ; 

 W. & A. 334 ; Wt. 111. tt, 99 and 100 ; Bedd. Fl. t. 205. 

 All Forest Districts, in deciduous forest, especially in X. 

 Circars, up to 5,000 ft., conspicuous in grassy places. 

 A large deciduous tree with yellowish -white flowers, large 

 obovate- serrate leaves and large globular fruit. Bark thick, 

 dark grey, gives a good fibre and makes slow matches ; 

 wood red, hard, of good quality but little used. Vern. 

 Hind., Ur. Kumbi; Tel. Gada\a, Dudippi ; Tarn. Ayma ; 

 Mai. Perzha. 



Family LXY. MELA8TOMACEAE. 



Herbs or shrubs, sometimes climbing, rarely trees. Leaves 

 opposite or rarely whorled. entire or nearly so, often ribbed from 

 the base; stipules 0. Flowers regular, hermaphrodite, in spikes 

 panicles or corymbs, rarely solitary or fascicled, usually bracteate 

 and bracteolate. Disk sometimes present. Calyx-tube free or 

 partly or entirely adherent to the ovary; limb 4-5-lobed, sometimes 

 calyptrate. Petals as many as the calyx-lobes, inserted on the 

 margin of the tube, imbricate. Stamens as many or often twice 

 as many as the petals and inserted with them ; filaments bent 

 inwards in bud, often alternately shorter and longer ; anthers 

 2-celled, basifixed. dehiscence usually by terminal pores, sometimes 

 by slits; connective often appendaged near the base. Orary 

 4-5-, rarely 3- or 6- or 1-celled ; ovules usually numerous, on axile 

 parietal or central placentas, sometimes few; style terminal, 

 usually filiform. Fruit usually enclosed in the calyx-tube, 

 capsular or baccate, dehiscent irregularly or by slits at the top 

 of the cells. Seeds many (usually 1 in Memecylon) : albumen ; 

 cotyledons small (in Memecylon large and convolute). 



Leaves 3- or more-ribbed from the base ; ovary 4-5 -celled, ovules and 

 seeds many .- 

 Petals 4 or 5 : 



Seeds curved ; flowers usually large and often showy : 



