Miliusa.] III. ANONACEiE. 7 



inside smooth, dark brown. Fruit consisting of a number of black dry 

 berries, J in. long, 1- or 2-seeded, on short stalks. 



Burma, Bengal, Orissa, Northern Circars, Central Provinces, Oudh. Along 

 the base of the Himalaya to the Ganges, ascending to 1500 ft. Deciduous ; 

 bare of foliage for great part of the hot weather, the new leaves appearing in 

 April. Flowers from March to May ; the fruit ripens in June and July, 

 remaining long on the tree. 



A middle-sized tree, with an erect short trunk to 4 ft. girth ; in Burma a 

 large tree. Bark of trunk nearly 1 inch thick, rough with cracks, and tesse- 

 lated in subquadrangular, thick, grey, exfoliating scales. Heart- and sap-wood 

 not distinct, sulphur yellow when fresh, light brown when old, with shining, 

 hard, medullary rays. The seasoned wood weighs from 40 to 50 lb. per cubic 

 foot ; easily worked and durable, but liable to warp ; used for small beams, 

 cart-poles, yokes, agricultural implements, spear-shafts, and oars. 



4. SACCOPETALUM, Bennett. 



Trees. Flowers bisexual. Sepals 3, small, valvate. Petals 6, valvate 

 in 2 series ; the 3 outer small, conform to the sepals ; the inner much 

 larger, saccate at the base, erect or conniving. Stamens loosely imbricate 

 round a subglobose torus ; anthers extrorse, distinct, adnate to a thick con- 

 nective, which overtops the cells. Ovaries numerous, ovules 6 or more. 



1. S. tomentosum, H. f. & Th. Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 88. Syn. Uvarla 

 tomentosa, Eoxb. Cor. PI. t. 35 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 667 ; W. & A. Prodr. 8. 

 Vern. Karri, Oudh ; Hoom, Bombay. 



A large tree. Young shoots clothed with soft silky tomentum. Leaves 

 elliptic or ovate-oblong, 6-12 in. long, on short petioles barely J in. long, 

 pubescent beneath, nearly glabrous and somewhat rough above. Flowers 

 greenish yellow with a broad streak of brown, in leaf-opposed or subter- 

 minal 2-4-flowered cymes, on short peduncles, \-\ in. long. Pedicels 

 slender, 2-3 in. long. Sepals and outer petals nearly equal, lanceolate, 

 \ in. long, inner petals ovate-oblong, obtuse, in. long. Flowers and 

 pedicels clothed with soft silky down. Carpels purple, tomentose, 3 or 

 more, globose, 1 in. diam., 3-4-seeded, on stalks J- J in. long. 



Oudh forests, Nepal Terai adjoining Oudh, Goruckpur, Behar, Orissa. Ever- 

 green forests of the Western Ghats. Leaves are shed in March, turning 

 orange yellow before falling, renewed April, flowers with the young leaves. 

 Fruit June. 



In Oudh attains 50 ft. with an erect short trunk, 5-6 ft. girth, often gnarled 

 and knotty from lopping. Bark 1 in. thick, brown or black, cracked and fur- 

 rowed. Wood yellow, like that of Nauclea cordifolia ; cracks in seasoning ; 

 used (in Oudh) for huts and cattle-sheds ; reckoned as a good timber on the 

 Western Ghats, where it is called by the same name as Polyalthia cei'asoides , 

 which, however, has one-seeded berries. Leaves used as cattle-fodder. 



& longiflorum, Hf. & Th. ; Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 88. Eastern Bengal. Has 

 solitary flowers on short pedicels \ in. long, and long pointed petals 1| in. 

 long. 



Order IV. MENISPERMACEiE. 



Climbing or twining, rarely erect shrubs. Leaves alternate, entire or 

 lobed, usually palminerved, exstipulate. Flowers small, dioecious or poly- 



