Cordia.] LVI. BORAGINEjE. 337 



brown, sometimes blackish, rough with shallow longitudinal wrinkles and fur- 

 rows, inner substance fibrous. Wood olive-coloured, greyish, or light brown. 

 No distinct heartwood. The horizontal section shows numerous broad medul- 

 lary rays and large pores, as well as concentric bands of whitish tissue, alternat- 

 ing with narrow bands of darker tissue. Pores and medullary rays prominent 

 on a vertical section. Soft and somewhat porous, but fairly strong, weight 

 33-49 lb. per cub. ft. Seasons well, but does not stand exposure, and is apt to 

 be attacked by insects. Employed in boat-building, for gun-stocks, well-curbs, 

 and agricultural implements. Excellent fuel. The bark is made into ropes and 

 fuses ; the fibre is also used in caulking boats. The leaves are used as plates, and 

 in Pegu for the covering leaf of the Burma cheroots. The tender young fruit is 

 eaten as a vegetable, and is pickled ; the ripe fruit is eaten, and is greedily de- 

 voured by birds. The adhesive viscid pulp is used as bird-lime. Its juice is 

 employed instead of that of the marking-nut {Semecarpus Anacardium), but 

 the colour is transient. The kernel is eaten, tastes somewhat like a filbert; 

 that of the cultivated tree is better. 



C. Wallichii, G. Don ; Bedd. El. Sylv. t. 245 ; is allied to this species, but 

 the leaves are more cordate, and clothed beneath with dense grey tomentum. 

 Forests of the western coast and Mysore. 



2. C. Macleodii, H. f. & Th. Tab. XLI. Linn. Soc. Journ. ii. 128. 

 Syn. Hemigymnia Macleodii, Griff. Vern. Deughan, dhdian, dahi, 

 deingan, dhaman, dewan, C.P. ; Dhaivan, Sattara. 



A middle-sized tree ; branchlets, under side of leaves, inflorescence, and 

 calyx clothed with dense grey or tawny tomentum. Leaves alternate or 

 subopposite, cordate, pubescent above, membranous when young, after- 

 wards firm and hard, upper surface rough, uneven, but somewhat shin- 

 ing ; blade 5-7 in. long and nearly as broad, petiole 2-3 in. ; three promi- 

 nent basal nerves, each of the 2 outer with 4-5 main lateral nerves on the 

 outside, the middle nerve with 4-5 main lateral nerves on either side, 

 all joined by prominent parallel transverse veins. Flowers polygamous, 

 white, on subsessile, compound, axillary and terminal cymes. Bracts 

 none. Calyx at the time of flowering cylindrical, wider above, almost 

 clavate, J in. long, ribbed and furrowed, splitting into 3-5, usually 5 

 unequal teeth. Corolla-tube shorter than calyx, lobes obovate-oblong, as 

 long as tube, undulate, spreading or reflexed. Stamens exserted, filaments 

 hairy at the base. Male flowers with a rudimentary ovary, without style 

 or stigma. Drupe J in. long, ovoid, cuspidate with the persistent base of 

 style, and girt by the enlarged and hardened cup-shaped calyx, with a 

 ribbed, crenate and denticulate edge. 



Central India, from the Mahanadi river in Bijoragogarh (D.B.), (probably also 

 in Behar), to the Nagpahar near Ajmir (D.B.), West Dekkan as far south as 

 Belgaum (Dr Kitchie, D.B.), and probably (specimens imperfect) on dry hills 

 near Chikmaglur in Mysore, D.B. First brought to notice by the late Sir D. F. 

 Macleod, who sent specimens from Jubbulpur (in 1842) to Dr Griffith. Attains 

 30-40 ft., with short trunk, 3-4 ft. girth, and strong spreading boughs, forming 

 a close, rounded crown. Bark thick, soft, corky, grey. Fl. April, May ; fruit 

 C.S. Heartwood light brown, beautifully mottled with darker veins and whit- 

 ish lines. Weight 40-50 lb. per cub. ft. Even-grained, hard, strong, tough and 

 elastic, seasons well and works easily. Used for furniture, picture-frames, and 

 other ornamental work. Excellent fishing-rods are made of it. 



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