36 A2OGYNAQEM. [ERVATAMIA. 



Abundant in Dehra Dun, on the Siwalik range and throughout the sub- 

 Himalayan tract eastwards to Gorakhpur, also in Bundelkhand, 

 Flowers in May and June, and the fruit ripens during the cold season. 

 DISTBIB. Throughout India and in Burma, ascending- to 4.000 feet on 

 the Western Himalaya. Sir Dietrich Braudis remarks that in Penin- 

 sula specimens the style is much longer than in those of Northern 

 India, and the anthers are attached to the middle of the corolla-tube 

 instead of at the base. Gamble draws attention to its sylvicultural 

 importance as an associate of sal in Northern and Central India, and 

 to its value in the reclamation of waste lanas. The soft white wood is 

 largely used, especially at Saharanpur, for carving and in turnery, and 

 many of the beads worn round the neck as a charm are made from this 

 wood. The bark is used for dysentery, and the leaves and seeds are 

 also employed medicinally. 



6. ERVATAMIA, Stapf . 

 TABEBN^MONTANA IN PL. BBIT. IND. in, 645. 



Shrubs rarely small trees, usually glabrous. Leaves opposite ; 

 axillary stipules usually distinct, axillary glands small. Flowers 

 often showy, usually in pairs and arranged in terminal or 

 pseudo-axillary corymbose or umbellifonn cymes. Calyx small; 

 lobes 5, free or connate at the base, glandular inside, imbricate. 

 Corolla salver-shaped; tube cylindric, slightly widened towards the 

 naked mouth ; lobes overlapping usually to the left. Stamens 

 included ; filaments short ; an I hers linear, acute, 2-lobed at the base 

 Disk 0. Ovary of 2 carpels which sometimes slightly cohere ; style 

 usually long and slender ; stigma on a level with the anthers, clavate 

 or oblong-ellipsoid, with a slender papillose bifid apiculus ; ovules 

 numerous, in many series. Follicles 2, more or less coriaceous when 

 mature, obliquely ovate to lanceolate, usually curved and beaked. 

 Seeds usually few, embedded in an orange-coloured or red aril, 

 ellipsoid, deeply grooved ventrally, albumen copious. Species about 

 30, in Trop. Asia, Australia and Polynesia, and oue in Madagascar, 



E. coronaria, Stapf. in Fl. Trop. Afr. iv,127 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb, ii, 134. 

 Tabernsemontana coronaria, Willd. JEnum. Hort. Berol. 275 ; Roxb. FL 

 Ind. it, 23; Eoyle 111. 270; Brandts For. Fl. 322; F. 11. I. Hi, 646; 

 Watt E.D. ; Kanjildl For. Fl. 233; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 485; Prain 

 "Beng. PI. 673. Vern. Chdndni. 



An evergreen glabrous '* dichotomously branched shrub with silvery-grey 

 bark. Leaves 3-6 in. long, elliptic-lanceolate or oblanceolate, acuminate 

 or caudate, tapering at the base into a short petiole, dark green and 

 shining above, pale beneath, membranous or thinly coriaceous, main 



