1 6 2 CombretaceCB. \Lumnitzera~ 



A. latifolia, Wall. Cat. n. 4014 (1828). Dawu, S. Vekkali, 71 



Conocarftiis latifolia, Roxb., Thw. Enum. 103. C. P. 1220. 

 Fl. B. Ind. ii. 450. Wight, Ic. t. 994. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 15. 



A small tree, trunk erect, bark very smooth, whitish-grey, 

 young parts glabrous ; 1. alt. or sub-opp., 2-3 in., broadly 

 oblong-oval or sub-rotundate, rounded or subcordate at base,, 

 obtuse, often apiculate at apex, entire, more or less undulate,, 

 quite glabrous, pale dull glaucous green, pink when young, 

 often conduplicate, venation pellucid, midrib prominent be- 

 neath, pink, petiole very short, channelled above; fl. sessile in 

 small dense heads on slender slighly pubescent peduncles 

 scarcely longer than petioles ; cal. glabrous, segm. short, 

 broad ; fruit very small, crowded, in a small globular head, 

 plane-convex, with a rather broad wing along the edges, and 

 beaked with the long persistent upper part of cal.-tube, 

 brown. 



Open grass-lands in the dry country; rare, but locally abundant. 

 Haragama; Bintenne; Nilgala, gregarious. Fl. Jan., Feb.; pale 

 greenish-yellow. 



Also in Peninsular India. 



Heart-wood extremely hard and tough, but small. 



3. LUMNITZSRA. Willd. 



Large shrub, 1. alt., fleshy, without stip., fl. small, in axillary 

 spikes ; cal.-tube produced much beyond ov., with 2 adnate 

 bracteoles near the base, limb with 5 shallow segm.; pet. 5, 

 small; stam. 10; ov. inferior, i-celled, with 2-5 pendulous 

 ovules ; fruit indehiscent, capped with the persistent cal.-tube 

 and limb; seed 1, cotyledons convolute. — Sp. 2, both in FL. 

 B. Ind. 



Zi. racemosa, Willd. in Neue Schrift. Berl. iv. (1803). Beriya, S. 



Thw. Enum. 103. C. P. 1594. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 452. Rheede, Hort. Mai. vi. t. 37. 



A shrub or small tree, with smooth purplish bark, young 

 parts quite glabrous, buds pointed ; 1. sessile, 2-3 in., readily 

 disarticulating, spathulate-oblong, much tapering to base, 

 rounded at apex, more or less shallowly crenate in upper 

 part or entire, quite glabrous, shining, fleshy, veins not visible 

 except midrib ; fl. small, sessile, laxly arranged in short 

 spikes from the 1. -axils ; cal.-tube fusiform, quite glabrous,, 

 segm. shallow, obtuse, finely ciliate ; pet. oblong, acute ; fruit 

 \-\ in., oblong-ovoid, compressed, capped by persistent cal.,. 

 glabrous, hard-fleshy, longitudinally striate when dry. 



