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or cuneate ; upper surface scabrous with bulbous-based hairs, pubes, 

 cent beneath, margin slightly recurved, entire or with distant teeth, 

 principal nerves conspicuous beneath. Flowers very fragrant, bracts 

 ovate or suborbicular, apiculate, hairy. Calyx $- in. long, hairy out- 

 side, glabrous within. Corolla -tube in. long, limb about as long as 

 the tube, 5-8-lobed, lobes obcordate. Capsule |-f in. in length and 

 breadth, glabrous, emarginate at the apex. 



Forests of Dehra Dun and of the Siwalik range, and in the Sub- 

 Himalayan tracts of Kohilkhand and N. Oudh ; also in Bundelkhand. 

 Flowera August, to October. DISTBIB. Ascends to 5,000 feet on the 

 outer Himalayan ranges from the Chenab to Nepal, extending east- 

 wards to Assam and Bengal, and southwards through Central India as 

 far as the Godaveri ; found also in Burma. The fragrant flowers, which 

 open during the night and fall to the ground in the early morning, are- 

 made into garlands and used in Hindu ceremonies. They are also 

 collected for the preparation of an orange-coloured dye yielded by 

 the tubes of the corollas. The rough leaves are employed for polish- 

 ing wood and also medicinally. The wood affords excellent fuel. 



3. SCHREBERA, Roxb. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iii, 604. 



Glabrous trees with opposite imparipinnate leaves. Flowers in 

 terminal 2-3-chotomous cymes, bracts small. Calyx tubular-campa- 

 nulate, truncate or unequally 4-6-lobed. Corolla salver-shaped, tube 

 cylindric ; lobes 4-7, imbricate, spreading. Stamens 2, attached near 

 the top of the corolla-tube ; filaments short, anthers included or 

 slightly exserted. Ovary 2-celled, style cylindric, stigma shortly 2- 

 lobed ; ovules 3-4 in each cell, pendulous. Capsule obovoid, 2-celled, 

 loculicidally 2-valved, woody. Seeds pendulous, winged, albumen 

 ; cotyledons plano-convex or contorted, radicle superior. Species 

 4, one Indian and three in Africa. 



S.swietenioides, Roxb. Cor. PI. ii, i. t. 101; Fl. Ind. i \(1820), 109 ; 

 Brandis For. Fl. 305; Watt E. D. ; F. B. I. iii, 604 ; Prain Beng. PI. 660 ; 

 Cooke Fl. Bomb, it, 116. Vern. Moka, ghanta (Bundelkhand). 



A medium-sized tree, 40-50 feet high, with grey scabrous bark ; youn g 

 parts pubescent. Leaves deciduous, common petiole 2-3 in. long ; leaf- 

 lets 7-9, opposite, glabrous when mature, the lowest pair smaller ; blade 

 2-4 in. long, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, bluntly acuminate, base often 

 oblique ; main lateral nerves 6-8 pairs. Cymes 3-6 in. long and about 

 as wide, many-flowered; bracts small, linear, pubescent. Flowers 

 shortly pedicelled, fragrant. Calyx | in. long, pubescent, limb 

 irregularly 4-6-toothed or subtruncate. Corolla $ in. long, white 

 with elevated brown glandular dots on the inner surface of the elliptic- 



