HOLABBHENA.] APOCYNACE&. 35 



lobes T V in., oblong-, ciliate. Corolla-tube % in. long, constricted in the 

 middle, hairy on both sides ; lobes ovate, obtuse. Disk 0. Anthers acute. 

 Ovary villous, stigma bifid. Follicles terete, 1-2 feet long and about 

 i in. in diam., pendulous in clusters. Seeds about in. long, slender, 

 flattened, with a long tuft of tawny hairs at each end. 

 In the eastern portion of Dehra Dun and eastwards iu the moist forests 

 along the base of the Himalaya, but nowhere abundant. It flowers 

 December-March and the fruit ripens during May and June. DISTRIB. E, 

 Bengal, Assam, W. and S. India, Burma, Malay Pen. and Archipelago, 

 extending also to Queensland and Trop. Africa. The wood is light 

 and easily worked and is much used for boxes, etc., and in Burma for 

 making black boards, hence the specific name. 



5. HOLARRHENA, R. Br,; Fl. Brit. Ind. in, 644. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, membranous. Flowers white, in 

 terminal subaxillary corymbose cymes. Calyx 5-lobed or partite, 

 usually glandular within ; lobes small, narrow. Corolla salver-shaped ; 

 tube slender, cyliudric ; lobes oblong, overlapping to the left. Stamen* 

 near the base of the tube ; anthers included, oblong-lanceolate, 

 mucronate, free from the style. Disk 0. Carpels 2, distinct ; style 

 short, filiform, stigma oblong-fusiform, apex entire or with two 

 teeth ; ovules many in each carpel. Follicles elongate, spreading 

 and incurved, terete. Seeds linear or oblong, compressed, concave, 

 tipped with a deciduous coma, albumen scanty ; cotyledons broad, 

 complicate ; radicle short, superior. Species 7 or 8, in Trop. Asia 

 and Africa. 



H- antidysenterica, Wall. Cat. 1672; Brandis For. Fl. 32R, t. 40; 

 F.B.I. Hi 644; Watt E. D. ; Cooke Fl. Bomb, ii, 133; Kanjilal For. 

 Fl. 234 ; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 484 ; Collett Fl. Siml. 311; Prain 

 Beng. PI. 674. H. pubescens, Wall.; Royle III. 270. Vern. Karra, kura t 

 dudhi, indarjau. 



A small deciduous tree, with brown bark exfoliating in irregular flakes. 

 Leaves sessile or nearly so, rather thin, glabrous or more or less tomen- 

 tose especially beneath, 3-6 in. long, broadly ovate or elliptic, rounded 

 or tapering at the base ; main lateral nerves arcuate, con- 

 spicuous, connected by prominent transverse veins. Flowers white,, 

 inodorous, arranged in terminal sessile corymbose cymes, pedicels- 

 slender ; bracts small, deciduous. Calysc-lobes jV& in. long,, 

 lanceolate, acuminate, ciliate. Corolla about 1 in. in diam.,. 

 creamy white, puberulous outside ; tube $ in. long, throat, 

 without a ring of hairs ; lobes about as long as the tube, oblong, 

 obtuse. Follicles slender, 8-15 in. long, |- in. in diam., usually marked 

 with many narrow white specks. Seeds linear, about \ in. long ; coma, 

 brown, about twice as long as the seed. 



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