Ni tuclea. ] Rn biacece. 295 



Dry region ; rather rare. Trincomalie ; Mineri ; Anuradhapura ; 

 Puttalam. Fl. April, July, August ; greenish-yellow, scented, styles white. 

 Also in India and Burma. 

 Wood hard, heavy, smooth, pinkish-yellow, durable. 



2. S. tubulosa, Hk.f. in Gen. Plant, ii. 31 (1873). Helamba, 5. 

 Nauclea tubulosa, Arn. in Thw. Enum. 137. N. parvifolia, Moon 

 Cat. 14 (non Roxb.). C. P. 1657. 



Fl. B. Ind. iii. 25. Bedd. Ic. Fl. Ind. or t. 18. 



A small tree, bark smooth, pale brown, young parts slightly 

 pubescent; 1. 4-6 in., broadly ovate, rounded or subcordate at 

 base, acuminate, acute at apex, glabrous on both sides or 

 pubescent on veins rjeneath, thin, lat. veins numerous, very 

 prominent beneath, intermediate venation minutely reticulate, 

 pellucid, petiole i-f in., stip. very large, 1 in., broadly oval, 

 very obtuse, veined, strongly keeled ; heads usually terminal 

 and sessile, sometimes axillary and pedunculate, i| in., fl. not 

 densely crowded, bractlets numerous, spathulate ; cal.-limb 

 long tubular; cor.-tube about twice as long as cal.-limb, hairy 

 within, lobes half as long as tube, linear-oblong, acute ; style 

 much exserted, stigma oblong, truncate; capsule § in., ovoid- 

 oblong, crowned by persistent cal.-limb, slightly puberulous, 

 10-ribbed; seeds long. 



Var. /3, minor, Thw. I. c. C. P. 1656. 



L. smaller, 2-3 in.; fl. -heads smaller, f in. 



Low country in the moist region ; rare. Colombo ; Kalutara (Moon) ; 

 Hiniduma ; Kukul Korale, abundant (Thvvaites). Var. fi in the dry 

 country. Jaffna (Gardner); Anuradhapura (Brodie); Haragama. Fl. 

 May and (var. /3) Feb.; pink. 



Also at Cochin, S. India. 



Wood as in the last. 



5. NAUCLEA,* Z.' 



Tree, stip. large, fl. sessile, crowded in globose terminal 

 heads, not fused ; cal.-segm. 5, oblong, tipped with a small 

 process ; cor. tubular-funnel-shaped, lobes 5, imbricate, re- 

 curved, acute; stam. inserted at mouth of cor.; ov. 2-celled 

 with numerous ovules in each cell on pendulous placentas, 

 style long, exserted, stigma globular; capsule 2-celled, dehis- 

 cent; seeds numerous, winged. — Sp. 30; 5 in Fl. B. Ind. 



* Linna.-us's genus Nauclea consisted of one species only, N. orienlalls, 

 which, as above shown, is Sarcocephalus cordatus. It does not appear 

 upon ■I1.1t principle it can be now employed for a different one. 



