262 XLV. RUBIACE.E. [Anthoccphah 



Ceylon and North Canara, and perhaps elsewhere along the western c 

 Believed also to be indigenous in Assam. Fl. May-July. Trunk tall, erect, 

 regularly shaped. Wood light yellow ; the cub. ft. weighs 36-47 lb. ; the mean 

 value of P. was found 616 (Puckle), and 618 (Cunningham). The flowers 

 offered in Hindu shrines ; the fruit is eaten. Often cultivated for ornament 

 and the shade of its close foliage. 



Nauclea purpurea, Koxb. Cor. PI. t. 54, Fl. Ind. i. 515, which has been con- 

 fused with this species (Dalzell Bombay Fl. Suppl. 43) is a different tree, with 

 purple flower-heads, capitate stigma, a 2-celled ovary, and a capsule splitting 

 into 4 valves from the base. 



2. STEPHEGYNE, Korthals. 



Shrubs or trees, with opposite, petiolate leaves, and large caducous 

 interpetiolar stipules. Flower-heads compact, globose, axillary and ter- 

 minal, generally supported by 2 large bracts. Flowers surrounded by pale- 

 aceous bracteoles. Calyx-tube short, limb cup-shaped or tubular, truncate 

 or indistinctly 5-dentate. Corolla funnel-shaped, tube elongate, glabrous 

 or hairy inside, limb divided into 5 short, acute, valvate lobes. Stamens 

 5, filaments short filiform, inserted in the mouth or the upper part of the 

 corolla-tube ; anthers attached by the back, lanceolate, with a cordate base, 

 apiculate. Ovary 2-celled, with a long filiform style, exserted, the stigma 

 cylindrical, often with a concave base. Ovules numerous, imbricate, pla- 

 centae pendulous, or adnate to the dissepiment. Fruit globose, consisting 

 of numerous dry distinct capsules, 2-valved, the valves dehiscing from the 

 base, many-seeded. Seeds small, with a winged testa and fleshy albumen. 



1. S. parvifolia, Korth. Syn. Nauclea parvifoUa, Eoxb. Cor. PL t. 

 52, Fl. Ind. i. 513; Wight 111. t. 123 ; W. & A. Prodr. 391 ; Bedd. Fl. 

 Sylv. t. 34. Vern. Kaddain, kallam, keim, hangei. Local n. Phaldu, 

 Kamaon ; Mundi marra, Gonds, C.P. ; Kumra, Banswara; Htein thay, 

 Burm. 



A large tree, pubescent or nearly glabrous. Leaves oval rotundate or 

 obovate, varying much in size, 2-6 in. long, at times longer, on short 

 petioles ; main lateral nerves 6-8 pair, the lowest 2 pair from near the base 

 of leaf. Stipules large, pale, obovate. Flower-heads light yellow, nearly 

 white, 1 in. diam., on peduncles about twice the length of head, generally 

 supported by 2 leaf-like, oblong bracts, narrowed into a long slender petiole. 

 Bracteoles spathulate, as long as or somewhat longer than calyx-tube. 

 Stigma cylindrical, with a concave base. 



A common tree in the greater part of India and Burmah. Often gregarious, 

 particularly in moist places. In the sub-Himalayan belt its western limit is 

 the Bias river, but trees are found (doubtfully indigenous) as far as the Chenab, 

 and it ascends to 4000 ft. The tree is leafless for a short time in spring ; the 

 new leaves come out in May. Fl. May- July ; fr. Nov, Dec, often remains 

 long on the tree. 



50-60, at times 80 ft. high, with a short, erect, often irregularly-shaped trunk, 

 sometimes buttressed, attaining a girth of 6-7, at times 10-12 ft. Bark thin, 

 -2Jr in. thick, bluish grey, sometimes brownish grey, with dark patches of old 

 exfoliating scales, leaving exposed the inner lighter-coloured bark. At times 



