292 RubiacecB. \Anthocephalus. 



1. SARCOCEPHALUS, Afzelius. 



Tree, stip. large, fl. small, sessile, in dense globose terminal 

 heads, without bractlets, the cal.-tubes fused into a fleshy 

 mass ; cal.-segm. 4 or 5, clavate, persistent ; cor. -tube long, 

 lobes 4 or 5, imbricate; stam. 4 or 5, inserted in mouth of 

 cor. ; ov. long, 2-celled, with numerous imbricated ovules ; 

 fruits sunk in a fleshy mass, 2-celled, seeds few, small, 

 oblong. — Sp. 8 ; 3 in Fl. B. Ind. 



S. cordatus, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 133 (1856). Bakmi, S. 

 Vammi, T. 



Fl. Zeyl. n. 53. Nauclea orientalis, L. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 243. TV. macro- 

 fihylla, Roxb. (?), Moon Cat. 14. N. cordata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 509. N. 

 coadunata, Roxb., Thw. Enum. 137. C. P. 1658, 781. 



Fl. B. Ind. iii. 22. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 318. 



A small tree, bark silvery-grey, smooth, branches marked 

 with prominent leaf-scars, young parts minutely stellate- 

 pubescent ; 1. large, 4-8 in., broadly ovate-oval, slightly caudate 

 at base, rounded or very obtuse at apex, entire, undulate, 

 glabrous above, glabrous or finely pubescent beneath, petiole 

 f-i in., stip. J-i in., obovate-rotundate, slightly connate, 

 deciduous ; fl. very numerous, fused together by their fleshy 

 cal.-tubes, heads f-i in. diam., on stout peduncles ; cal.-segm. 

 small, club-shaped, cor. -tube long, lobes acute ; stam. included ; 

 style very long, much exserted, stigma large, clavate ; head 

 of fruit about 1 in., globose, solid, fleshy ; seeds slightly rough, 

 black. 



Low country in both moist and dry regions ; rather common. Fl. 

 May, June ; pale yellow, styles white. 



Also in Malaya, Philippine Is., and perhaps N. Australia, but not in 

 Peninsular India. 



Hermann's drawing (there is no specimen) is certainly this ; which 

 fixes Linnaeus's Nauclea orientalis as originally the same, but he also 

 quotes Hort. Malab. iii. t. 33, which rather represents Anthocephalus 

 Cadamba. Roxburgh's N. cordata was raised from Ceylon seed sent to 

 Calcutta in 1802. 



The leaves and flower-heads of the dry country form (C. P. 781) are 

 smaller than those from the moist region, and the 1. more pubescent 

 beneath. The head of fruit is succulent, and is eaten, hence the tree 

 is often called ' Kana-bakmi.' Wood yellow, light, rather soft. 



2. ANTHOCEPHALUS, A. Rich. 



Tree, stip. large, fl. sessile, in dense globose terminal heads, 

 the cal.-tubes closely pressed together but not fused, without 

 bractlets; cal.-segm. 5, linear, persistent; cor.-tube funnel- 



