Homalium.'i SAMYDACEAE, 521 



with large leiiticels. The Travancore specimens have more 

 lanceolate leaves. 



3. CASEARIA ESCULENTA, Roxb.; F. B. I. ii. 592. 



E. Coast, in the Circars and southwards; Striharikota and 

 similar forests of the Carnatic ; W. Coast, from S. Canara 

 to Cochin. 



A small tree with many fascicles of flowers from the leaf- 

 axils, apparently evergreen. Roxburgh says the leaves 

 are eaten. Yern. Tel. Kunda jungara. 



4. CASEARIA VARI^NS, Bedd. Fl. t. 208, not q/*Thw. 



Evergreen forests of Travancore up to 3,000 ft. 

 A small glabrous apparently evergreen tree. Bark green, 

 smooth ; wood yellowish -white, even-grained. Yern. Mai. 

 Yella kunnan. 



5. CASEARIA CORIACEA, Thw. ; F. B. I. ii. 592. 



W. Ghats, Shola forests of the Nilgiris, Anamalais and 



Pulneys above 6,000 ft. 



An evergreen tree with yellowish-white smooth bark. 



6. CASEARIA TOMENTOSA, Roxb. ; F. B. I. ii. 593; Brand. For. 



Fl. t. 31. C. elliptica, Willd. ; Wt. Ic. t. 1849. 



All plains forest Districts of the Circars, Deccan and 



Carnatic, very common in open, much-grazed lands ; rare 



in W. Ghats, W. side. 



A bushy shrub or small deciduous tree in open lands, a 



much larger tree in forest, the oblong leaves generally 



tomentose, sometimes nearly glabrous. Bark thick, pale ; 



wood yellowish-white, close-grained. Yern. Hind. Chilla ; 



Ur. Girari; Tel. Chilaka duddi. 



7. CASEARIA WYNADENSIS, Bedd. Ic. t. 160 ; F. B. I. ii. 594. 



W. Ghats, in the forests of Malabar, Travancore and 



Tinnevelly at 2,000-3,000 ft. 



A small villous tree with slender branchlets and trifid 



stigmas. 



2. Homalium, Jacq. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, crenate or serrate, rarely 

 entire, petiolate ; stipules small or 0. Flowers small, in slender 

 axillary and subterminal, simple or panicled, racemes ; bract at 

 the base of the pedicel often prominent, caducous. Calyx-tube 

 turbinate, adnate to the base of the ovary ; lobes 5-7, narrow 



