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3. Anthocephalus, A. Rich. 



Large glabrous trees with petiolate coriaceous leaves and large 

 caducous stipules. Flowers sessile, crowded in solitary terminal globose 

 pedunculate beads, the peduncles bracteate at the base : tbe capitules 

 ebracteolate. Calyx witb a narrow cylindric tube expanding above and 

 divided into 5 linear-oblong sparsely pubescent persistent lobes. Corolla 

 t ubular below, infundibuliform above, with 5 deep linear lobes, glabrous. 

 Anthers linear-oblong, the apex apiculate. Style long, exserted ; stigma 

 elongate, cylindric, slightly fusiform. Ovary 2-celled ; placentas linear, 

 attached to the middle of the septum ; ovules numerous. Seeds minute, 

 ellipsoid; testa sub-membranous, albumen fleshy. — Distrib. 2 species 

 both Indo-Malayan. 



Anthocephalus indicus, A. Rich, in Mem. Soc. Hist. Nat. Par-is, 

 1834, p. 237. A tall tree ; young branches slender, dark-coloured. 

 Leaves elliptic, elliptic-oblong or ovate; the apex acute; the base 

 cuneate or rounded, sometimes sub-oblique ; upper surface glabrous, the 

 lower sometimes puberulous ; main-nerves 10 to 12 pairs, spreading, 

 slightly prominent on both surfaces; length 5 - 5 to 8 in.; breadth 25 to 

 3'5 in. ; petiole 1*2 to l - 75 in., somewhat winged near the apex ; stipules 

 triangular. Capitules 1 to 2 in. in diam. : their peduncles 15 to 2 in. 

 long. Calyx short, tubular below, infundibuliform above and deeply 

 divided into 5 narrowly oblong lobes with obtuse, somewhat thickened 

 apices, glabrous. Corolla elongate, infundibuliform, glabrous ; the 

 teeth broadly lanceolate, sub-acute. Anthers 5, linear-oblong, apiculate, 

 the filaments short. Style long, exserted ; stigma large, fusiform. Fruit 

 4-celled, with thin walls, the upper part containing 4 cartilaginous, in- 

 dehiscent several-seeded pyrenes, the lower part only 2-celled and con- 

 taining numerous seeds. A. indicus, Koord. & Valet. Bijdr. 8, p. 8. A. 

 morindtefolius, Korth. Verb. Nat. Gesch. 154, t. 48 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 

 135. A. Cadamba, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 135 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 127 ; t. 

 35; Brand. For. Fl. N.-W. Ind. 261; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 23. 

 Nauclea Cadamba, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 14 ; Fl. Ind. II. 512. Sarcocephaltis 

 Cadamba, Kurz. For. Fl. Burrn. II. 63; Wall. Cat. 6088 (excl. sheet C). 



Peeak: King's Collector 6913. Andaman Islands: Prain's Collector 

 43, 93.— Distrib. British India ; Malayan Archipelago. 



A perusal of Kichard's original description of Anth. indicus convinces one that 

 tbe shrub which be describes is not Nauclea purpurea, Eoxb.. as he says, but 

 Nauclea Cadamba of the same author. 



4. Nauclea, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs with petiolate or sessile, coriaceous or sub-coriace- 

 ous leaves, often of rather large size; the stipules caducous or sub- 



