236 XXXVII. MYRTACE.E. [Barring tonia. 



Australia. Leaves shed and renewed March, April. Fl. May ; fr. Sept.-Oct. 

 Attains a height of 30 and a girth of 5 ft., with a short trunk, and large crooked 

 spreading branches. Bark 1 in. thick, cinereous or brownish black, rough with 

 longitudinal reticulate cracks and furrows, and irregularly oblong exfoliating 

 scales. Wood pale or reddish-brown, turns black if buried in mud, fine-, close-, 

 but short-grained, hard, tough, strong, weight of cub. ft. 56 lb. (Skinner), 39.4 

 (Kyd) ; value of P. 315 (Kyd), 648 (Benson, green wood), 863 (Skinner). Said 

 to be durable. No distinct heartwood. Used for boat-building, in wells, for 

 carts, rice-pounders, and by cabinet-makers. The pounded bark is used to in- 

 toxicate fish ; mixed with chaff and pulse, it is given as cattle-fodder. 



5. CAREYA, Eoxb. 



Trees or undershrubs, with alternate leaves approximate near the ends 

 of branches, and large showy flowers. Calyx wholly adnate to the ovary, 

 ovoid or turbinate, with a 4-cleft limb. Petals 4, spreading. Stamens 

 very numerous, in several rows ; filaments distinct above, united at the 

 base into a thick fleshy ring, inserted with the petals ; the exterior and 

 interior stamens generally without anthers, the middle row antheriferous ; 

 anthers small, versatile, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary 4-celled, with 

 numerous ovules attached to axile placentas ; style filiform ; stigma 

 capitate, obscurely 4-lobed or -toothed. Fruit globose, with a thick rind, 

 numerous seeds embedded in a fleshy pulp. No albumen. Embryo large, 

 almond-like, structure similar to that of Barringtonia. 



A large tree ; flowers sessile 1.0. arbor ea. 



An undershrub ; flowers pedunculate 2. O. herbacea. 



1. C. arborea, Eoxb. Cor. PL t. 218 ; Wight 111. t. 99, 100; Bedd. 

 Fl. Sylv. t. 205, Anal. t. 18 ii. j W. & A. Prodr. 334. Yern. Kumbi 

 kumbh, Khumbi. Gond. names : Kumri, Chindwara ; Gumar, Mandla, 

 Balaghat. 



A large tree, wholly glabrous. Leaves obovate-oblong, membranous, 

 sessile or narrowed into short marginate petiole, crenate, with 10-12 

 pair of prominent main lateral nerves. Flowers large, sessile, a few 

 together at the ends of branchlets, white and pink, with an unpleasant 

 smell. Fruit globose, green, 3 in. across, crowned with the persistent 

 calyx-segments. 



Common in South India, Bengal, and Burma. Sparingly found in the forests 

 of the Central Provinces, Oudh, and in the sub-Himalayan tract, where it ex- 

 tends west a little beyond the Jumna. Grown here and there in gardens in the 

 Panjab. (In North Australia and Queensland a tree is found nearly related to 

 this, G. arborea, var. australis, Benth. Fl. Austr. iii. 289.) Bare during part 

 of the dry season, the new foliage appears in March, April. Fl. with the 

 young leaves ; fr. ripens and falls about July. 



Under favourable circumstances attains a height of 50, and a girth of 8 ft., 

 but in Central and North India is generally a much smaller tree. Bark 1-2 in. 

 thick, dark grey, or dark brown, smooth or rough, with large exfoliating scales. 

 Inner bark red, very fibrous. Sapwood yellowish white, large, heartwood dull 

 red, or reddish brown, beautifully mottled, even-grained, hard and strong, does 

 not season well, is apt to split, but takes a fine polish. The weight of a cub. 

 ft. of seasoned wood is given by Skinner at 50 lb., and this may probably be 



