SPECIES OF WESTERN PENINSULAR TREES, SHRUBS, tfc. 6S1 



Isolated groups of corky tissue ; inner bark of alternate layers of 

 yellow (hard bast) and thin white (soft bast) tissue. Green and reddish 

 parenchyma are present in old trees. Wood moderately hard, yellow- 

 ish. Med, rays fine, numerous. Pores medium and small, equally 

 distributed. Annual rings distinct. Wood possesses a strong cedar- 

 like smell when freshly cut, and polishes with a fine satin lustre. 

 Weight 401bs to the cub. ft. Logs decay rather slowly on exposure. 

 Wood used for building purposes in North Kanara but is not in great 

 demand ; would do for cigar boxes, tea cases, etc., but the supply is 

 limited. 



RUBIACEiE. 



P. canaebnsis, Talb., Syst. List Bomb. Trees, etc., p. 113. (Plate XII.) 

 A small erect shrub with smooth branches. Leaves ovate, obovate, or 

 lanceolate, acute, attenuate at the base, thin, nearly glabrous, minutely 

 punctate and pale beneath ; lateral nerves 8 pairs, distinctly looping 

 within the margin ; blade 2-5 by '5-1*75 in. ; petiole 0-'25 in. long. 

 Stipules short, acute, caducous. Cymes few or many flowered, mostly 

 terminal, 1-3 in. long, branches opposite or verticellate, slender, as 

 long as or longer than the peduncle. Flowers small, sessile. Bracts 

 and bracteoles minute, linear, caducous. Calyx short, tubular, 4- 

 ioothed. Corolla white, tubular or slightly funnel-shaped, about '12 

 in. long, limb with 4 spreading or re flexed lobes, mouth of the corolla 

 hairy within. Stamens at the mouth of the tube ; filaments very short. 

 Ovary 4-Iobed ; style as long as the corolla tube. Fruit ovoid, curved, 

 black, shining, ridged, about *5 in. long, crowned with the toothed 

 calyx. Seeds ridged along the back, ventrally flat ; albumen equable. 

 Fairly common in the forests near the falls of Grairsoppah in North 

 Kanara. Flowers during the rainy season. Fruit ripe during Decem- 

 ber and January. 



Composite. 



Veenonia oenata, Talb., sp. nov. (Plate XIII.) 



A stout handsome flowered herb, 2-4 ft. high. Branches striate, glab- 

 rous or pubescent. Leaves ovate, lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 

 gradually narrowed into the petiole, distinctly and strongly serrate, 

 membranous, sparsely hairy above and beneath, midrib strong beneath, 

 lateral nerves about 8 pairs, distinct, blade 6-4 by 2=1'25 in,; petiole 



