Alangium.~\ Cornace<z. 285 



LXV.— CORNACE^. 



Trees or shrubs, 1. alt, without stip. ; cal.-tube adnate to ov., 

 segm. 4 or 5 ; pet. 4-10, valvate ; stam. def. or indef., epigynous ; 

 ov. quite inferior, crowned with epigynous disk, 1 -celled with 

 a single pendulous ovule, style simple; fruit a drupe, epicarp 

 fleshy, stone woody; seed oblong, embryo in fleshy endosperm. 



Stam. 15 or more; pet. very long 1. Alangium. 



Stam. 4 or 5 ; pet. short 2. Mastixia. 



Alci7iginm Lamarckii is a dry-country plant, Mastixia arborea is 

 montane, the other two species are found in the moist region, extending 

 into the hills. 



I. ALANGIUIVT, Lam. 



Trees or shrubs, 1. alt., no stip., fl. in axillary clusters ; 

 cal.-tube adnate to ov., limb saucer-shaped, segm. 5, small ; 

 pet. usually 6 (4-10) long, valvate; stam. 15-indef., epigynous, 

 fil. short, with a tuft of hair near base, anth. very long, linear ; 

 ov. inferior, 1 -celled, with a single pendulous ovule, style very 

 long, surrounded at base by epigynous disk, stigma large, 

 4-lobed ; drupe externally fleshy, crowned with cal.-limb ; 

 seed solitary, embryo straight in axis of slightly ruminate 

 endosperm, cotyledons foliaceous. — Sp. 2 or 3 ; 1 in Fl. B. Lid. 



Small erect tree ; fruit 1 in 1. A. Lamarckii. 



Subscandent shrub ; fruit f in 2. A. GLANDULOSUM. 



1. A. Lamarckii, Thw. Emim. 133(18159). Mul-anninchil, T. 



A. decapeto.lum and A. hexapeiahim, Lam., Moon Cat. 42. Thw. 

 Enum. 133. C. P. 760. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 741. Wight, Ic. t. 194 (A. decapetalwii), 111. t. 96 (A. 

 hexapetalum ). 



An erect tree of small size, occasionally with short, sharp, 

 spinous branchlets, bark whitish, young parts pubescent : 

 1. variable, 2i-6 in., oblong-oval or oblong-lanceolate, acute or 

 rounded at base, more or less acuminate, obtuse at apex, 

 entire, glabrous above, pubescent on veins beneath and 

 often with small tufts of hair in their axils, venation rather 

 prominent beneath, the lat veins very oblique, petiole short, 

 pubescent; fl. large, on densely pubescent pcd. -jj in. long and 

 jointed near the top, 1-3 in the axils ; cal. silky-pubescent, 



* Alangi is given by Rheede as the Malabar name. 



