Wminalia.'] XXXVI. COMBRETACE^. 227 



from a cordate or rounded, often unequal base, 4-7 in. long, on short peti- 

 oles ; main lateral nerves 10-15 on either side of midrib. The upper 

 leaves always alternate, the lower subopposite. Flowers on slender spikes 

 in large spreading panicles ; bracts ovate, long-acuminate, recurved. 

 Ovary cylindrical or ovoid ; free portion of calyx reddish brown, globose 

 in bud, afterwards cup-shaped, with long brown hairs inside. Fruit \- J 

 in. long, sessile, close-set in large spreading panicles, with 2 smaller and 

 1 large wing, the latter transversely oblong, J-J in. long, and f-1 in. 

 broad. 



Common in the forests along the western coast ; rare above Ghat in the lati- 

 tude of Bombay. I do not know it north of the Konkan, and have not noted it 

 from the Khandeish Dangs and the Mandevi forests ; but it may be found in 

 the Nerbudda valley. Fl. Aug., Sept. ; the fruit ripens in March, April. The 

 timber is useful, makes good planking, and is fairly durable. The handles of 

 ploughs in the Ratnagiri district are made of Kindal and Ain. 



4. ANOGEISSUS, Wall. 



Trees with alternate, petiolate, entire leaves, and small bisexual flowers 

 in globose heads on slender peduncles. Calyx-tube compressed, 2-winged 

 at the base, prolonged above the ovary into a narrow, often slender tube, 

 expanding at the top into a campanulate deciduous 5 -cleft limb. No 

 petals. Stamens 10, biseriate; filaments filiform, exserted ; anthers small, 

 cordate, versatile, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary 1-celled, with 2 pendu- 

 lous ovules. Fruit small, coriaceous, broadly 2-winged, imbricated in 

 globose heads, rostrate by the persistent calyx-tube. Seed ovoid ; cotyle- 

 dons convolute. 



Leaves oval ovate or ovate-lanceolate, beak as long as or longer 

 than fruit. 

 Leaves oval or ovate ; flower-heads in fascicles or short 



racemes ; peduncles as long as or shorter than heads . 1. A. latifolia. 

 Leaves ovate -lanceolate, flower-heads solitary; peduncles as 



long as or longer than heads . . . 2. A. acuminata. 



Leaves obovate, beak shorter than fruit . . 3. A. pendula. 



1. A. latifolia, Wall. ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 15. Syn. Conocarpus lati- 

 folia, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 442; W. & A. Prodr. 316; Wight Ic. t. 994 ; 

 Royle 111. t. 45. Vern. Dhau, dhauri, dhaura, ddwa, dhdwa, doliu, bdJcli, 

 bankli. Local names : Golra, goldia, dhaukra, dhokri, dau, Rajputana ; 

 Khardhawa, Banda ; Dindaga. dindal, Canar ; Siri maim, Tel. 



A large tree, with smooth, white-grey bark ; young trees with spines- 

 cent branches ; branchlets and young leaves with soft silky pubescence. 

 Leaves coriaceous, subopposite, on short petioles, oval or ovate, rarely 

 ovate-lanceolate, obtuse retuse or emarginate, glabrous when full-grown ; 

 2-4 in. long ; main lateral nerves arching, 6-10 on either side of midrib. 

 Flower-heads in short axillary racemes ; peduncles as long as flower- 

 heads or shorter. Wings of fruit nearly orbicular, glabrous, persistent 

 calyx-tube (beak) slightly pubescent, as long as or longer than the fruit. 



