DiosPYBoa.] EBENACE^. 17 



Recorded by Kanjilal from Thano and Lachiwala in Dehra Dun, and from 

 Ranipur, Dholkhand and Badshahibagh on the Siwalik range. Flowers 

 daring April and May. DISTRIB. : Raj pur below Mussoorie at 2-3,000 ft. 

 (Edgeworth, Mackinnon) ; above Kalsi in Jauusar at 2,500 ft. (Kanjilal) ; 

 in the Chanda district of the Central Provinces (Duthie) ; collected also 

 by Gamble in the following localities : Santal Parganaa iu Bengal 

 (No. 10614)) ; aud in the Madras districts of Ganjam (No. 13657), 

 Anantapur (N 7 o. 20873), Bellary (No. 16583); and by Ritchie in N. 

 Kanara (No. 972). This tree has already been alluded to by KanjiUl on 

 p. 221 of his ' Forest Flora.' It appears to occupy a position inter- 

 mediate between D. montana proper and D. cordifolia. With the former 

 it agrees in general habit, stature, smoothness of bark and in the absence 

 of spines ; but it differs by having thick coriaceous leaves, the male 

 flowers are in threes, and there are twice the number of staminodes. 

 From D. cordifolia it may easily be distinguished by its smooth bark, 

 absence of spines, the shape of the leaves, the glabrous awned anthers, 

 and by the number of the staminodes ; it also differs by having a more 

 defined trunk with ascending, not spreading, branches. As far as one 

 can judge from herbarium specimens it comes very near Dalzell's D, 



' Goindu, but the latter has more acuminate leaves, hairy anthers and a 

 much smaller fruit. 



4. D, cordifolia, Roxb. Cor. PI. t, 38, t. 50 ; Fl. Ind. it, 538 ; Eoyle 

 III. 262; Cookts Fl. Bomb, ii, 105. D. montana, C. B. Clarke, in F. B. I. 

 Hi, 555 (in part); WattE.D.; Kanjilal For. FL 221 ; Brandis Ind. Tree 

 431 (in part). D. montana, var. cordifolia, Hiern. in Trans. Camb 

 Phil. Soc. scii, 222; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 455 ; Train Beng. PI. 653. 

 Vern. Tendu, biatendu. 



A small tree, with a short often crooked trunk. Bark blackish or dark 

 brown, furrowed with longitudinal and transverse cracks. Trunk and 

 larger branches armed with many stout and often ;branching spines. 

 Leaves 1^-2^ in. long, oblong obtuse, cordate rounded or subtruncate 

 at the base, softy downy on both surfaces especially when young ; 

 petiole - in. long. MALE flowers axillary; peduncles 3-flowered, 

 pedicels & in. long. Calyx -^ in. long, hairy outside; lobes elliptic, 

 obtuse or subacute, pubescent inside and with ciliate margins. Corolla 

 dull-white, in. long, hairy outside ; lobes ovate-oblong, Rub-acute. 

 Stamens in opposite pairs, united below ; anthers not awned, pubescent. 

 FEM. flowers solitary, pedicels in. Calyx -^-in., recuived and twisted 

 in fruit ; lobes thin, oblong, obtuse. Corolla-lobes obtuse. Staminodes 

 12, lanceolate, on long filaments. Fruit |-1 in. in diam., globose, yellow 

 when ripe. 



Abundant in many parts of the area especially in the sab-Himalayan 



tracts. Flowers in the hot season. DISTRIB. : Throughout tropical 



India, extending to Ceylon, Burma and N. Australia. Every pare of 



this tree has a bitter taste, including the fruifc, which has also a most 

 unpleasant smell. 



