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LIV. SAMYDACE^E 



[Casearia 



with short ciliate staminodes. Fr. 6-ribbed, 3-valved, seeds embedded in a red 

 pulp, consisting of the agglomerate arils. 



Subhhnalayan tract from the Indus eastwards, ascending to 3,000 ft., common in 

 deciduous forests. Salt Range, Rajputana. Central Provinces. Behar. Western 

 Peninsula. Prom Burma I have not seen specimens. C. Canziala, Kurz F. Fl. i. 529, 

 is doubtful. Fl. Jan.-Ma3". The pounded fruit of this and other species is used to 

 poison fish. Wood made into combs. C. Lobbiana, Turcz, very similar to 4, with more 

 acuminate 1. has been reported from Tenasserim. 



6. C. Vareca, Roxb. Sikkim, foot of the hills. Assam (Ban Kassent). Khasi hills, 

 Cachar. A small tree, 1. oblong, closely serrate, underside clothed with soft long hairs, 

 pedicels glabrous above the articulation. Fr. J in. long, yellow, aromatic, seeds in a 

 bright red pulp. From Burma no specimens seen. 



7. C. wynadensis, Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 160. Common on the slopes of the Wainad. 

 A small tree, young shoots densely aureo-villous, branches, petioles and underside of 1. 

 softly pubescent, 1. membranous, elliptic-lanceolate, base entire, upper part serrate. Fl. 

 on slender pedicels in fascicles of 6-8 in the leaf-axils. Calyx-segments hairy within, 

 ovary and style densely hairy. 8. C. Kurzii, C. B. Clarke, Chittagong, Upper Burma. 

 L. elliptic-lanceolate, more or less crenate, with long soft hairs on the underside. Fl. 

 on slender pedicels J-4 in. long, in axillary 3-6 fid. fascicles. 



2. HOMALIUM, Jacq. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. 595. 



Leaves more or less crenate. Fl. small, hairy, in slender simple or panicled 

 racemes or spikes, calyx- tube adnate to ovary, segments 4-7, narrow persistent, 

 as well as the linear petals ; round hairy glands (staminodes) opposite the sepals 



Fig. 145. — Homalium tomentosum, Benth. i. 



Stamens epipetalous, solitary or in fascicles of 2-7. Ovary half-superior, 1- 

 celled, styles 2-6, filiform, placentas parietal, as many as styles, in the upper 

 free portion of the . ovary. Capsule 2-6-valved. Species about 70, tropics of 

 both hemispheres. 



A. Stamens solitary, opposite to petals. 



