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SPECIES OF WESTERN PENINSULAR TREES, SHRUBS, 

 etc., FROM NORTH KANAKA, BOMBAY. 



By W. A. Talbot, F.L.S., Deputy Conservator of Forests. 



( With Plates XI to XIV.) 



{Read before the Bombay Natural History Society on June 14th, 1898.) 



Meliage^:. 



D. glandulosuM, Taib., Syst. List of Trees, etc., p. 39. Blli devdari, 

 bill budlige, K. (Plate XL) 



A very large tree. Leaves 12 in. ; petioles angled, 4-6 in. ; leaflets 

 about 9, sub-opposite or alternate, ovate, elliptic-lanceolate, shortly 

 acuminate, sometimes slightly falcate, coriaceous, puberulons when 

 young, glabrescent in age, pale and strongly nerved beneath, lateral 

 nerves 10-20 pairs, with hollow, ciliate glands in the axils ; blade 2-9 

 by 1*5-3 in.; petiolules short, '25 in. Inflorescence in axillary, 4-8 

 in. puberulous panicles, often crowded near the ends of the branches, 

 upper branches very short, lower much longer. Flowers small, "25 in. 

 lono - , white, sweetly scented, hermaphrodite, shortly pedicelled, pedi- 

 cels *10- , 25 in., slender. Calyx 4-lobed nearly to the base, lobes acute 

 or obtuse. Petals 4, broad, reflexed in flower, slightly imbricate in the 

 4-ano-led bud, "25 in. long, pubescent on the outside. Staminal 

 column tubular-urceolate, somewhat 4-angled, mouth crenulate ; 

 anthers 8, included. Disk cup-shaped, equalling or \ the ovary, 

 crenulate and ciliate on the margin. Ovary 4-celled, white, tomentose ; 

 style equalling the staminal column ; stigma capitate, just exserted. 

 Fruit globose, or obovoid, 2-2'5 in. in diameter, bright yellow, tuber- 

 cled, verrucose, and with the 4 sutural lines distinct ; seeds 3-4, large, 

 angular, with a dark brown, smooth testa and green cotyledons. 



North Kanara and probably the Konkan in evergreen forests from 

 the sea-level upwards to 2,000 ft., common in many of the " kans " 

 near Yellapore. A large or very large tree with a cylindrical stem. 

 Trunks which yielded over 350 cubic feet of timber were not uncom- 

 mon near Yellapore in North Kanara. Flowers during the latter end 

 of January and February. Fruit ripe during May and June. 



Bark light-coloured, exfoliating in large scales, mostly breaking off 

 from below, exposing underneath a peridermic layer covered with 



