Alangiwm] LIX. CORXACE.E 355 



nerves, in copious albumen, which is not ruminated. (If collected unripe, the 

 seeds, when dry, have a central cavity and the cotyledons in drying become 

 crumpled.) 



Subhimalayan tract, from the Saharunpore Sewalika to Oudh. Gangetic Plain, 

 Bajputana, Centra] Provinces and the Western Peninsula. Never quite leafles-. 

 foliage renewed April. May. Fl. Feb. -April. A variety with broadly elliptic, acumi- 

 nate 1. tertiary nerves prominent, in the Peninsula. Coppices- well. Fr. eaten, oil 

 extracted from the seeds. Ceylon, Malay Archip. South China. 2. A. Kingianum, 

 Frain in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. vol. 07. 294. Kacbin bills. Qpper Burma. A scandent 

 unarmed shrub. Fl. \ --.', in. long, in lax pedunculate axillary cynies, much shorter 

 than I. 



2. MARLEA, Roxb. : Fl. Brit. In.l. ii. 742. 



(Included under Alangiwm. by Harms in Engler u. Prantl iii. 8. 261.) 



Trees or shrubs. 1. alternate. Fl. bisexual in axillary cymes. Petals 6—10, 

 linear, -valvate in bud. Stamens as many as petals, filaments short, adhering 

 to base of petals, anthers linear. Ovary 1- or 2-celled, one ovule in each cell. 

 Style filiform, stigma 4-lobed. Drupe with thin pericarp, putamen grooved. 

 Species 10, India to Australia and Polynesia. 



1. M. begoniaefolia, Roxb. Cor. PI. t. 283. Vera. Kdkshu, Khagshi, Ban 

 kimu, Garh kirau, Hind. : Timil, Xep. ; Taioposa, Upper Burma. 



A small tree, bark smooth, grey, branches horizontal, young shoots pubescent. 

 Leaves pubescent or glabrous, varying from broad ovate, acuminate, to cordate, 

 "Inn with an oblique base and angularly lobed. blade 4—10, pet. f-1 ^ in. long, 

 basal nerves 3-6. Fl. white, in axillary dichotomous cymes, petals G-8, § in. 

 long, slightly hairy on back, ovary 2-celled. Fr. ovoid. .1 in. long, pulp scanty, 

 pntamen bony. 2-celled. 



Subhimalayan tract and outer ranges, ascending to 0,000 ft. Assam. Khasi hills. 

 Chittagong. Burma. Fl. March-June. — China. Japan. .1/. lomeulosa, Endl. : Kurz 



P. Fl. i. 645, petals nearly an inch long, probably belongs to this s] ies. 2. M. alpina. 



Gamble MSS. Sikkim 6 9,000 ft., I. usually not angled or lobed, fr. J in. long, putamen 

 crust aceous, one-seeded, one cell abortive. :i m. barbata, B. Br. Assam, Bhutan. 

 Caohar, Tenasserim. Shaggy with much soft spreading hair. 1. ovate-oblong, acumi- 

 nate. . \ mes many-lid., ovarj L-celled. 



3. CORNUS, Linn. : Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. 744. 



Shrubs and trees, 1. opposite, rarelv alternate. Fl. bisexual, tetramerous. 

 white or yellow, in heads or dichotomous cymes Calyx-teeth minute, petals 

 valvate in bud. : stamens alternating with petals, a nt hers oblong. Ovary 2- 

 celled, one ovule in each cell. Fruit drupaceous, putamen hard, crustaceous 

 or . ssi .its, 2-celled, 2-seeded. ( lotyledons foliaceons in a fleshy albumen. 



A. Fl. in compound cymes. 



I. C. macrophylla, Wall.; Brandis F. Fl. t. 32. Vera. Kandar, Haz. 

 SJika, lui nchhin u . Hash.: Kagshi, Jauns. 



A middle-sized tree, I. broad-ovate acuminate, pale glaucous beneath, blade 

 I ii, pet. J- 1 in. long, sec. o. 5 s pair. Fl. white, in ample terminal dichotomous 

 cymes, on short peduncles, buds | '. in. long, calyx mveolate. Pedicels, calyx 



ami outside of petals clothed with white appressed hairs, lhaipc globose, \ in. 

 diat.i. 



Himalaya, Hazara. Nepal i 8,000ft., frequent in shady valleys. Fl. April-. Inn.-. 



The wood of this and other -i ies ol Cornui is close- and even -grained, similar to thai 



of C.florida, 1... largely used in turnery in North America. A sj ies with alternate 



i and campannlate calyx, Sikkim 8-6,000 it. Bhutan. Mauipur (C. macrophylla, 

 Gamble List 16) is nearl j allied to C. nllernifolia, Linn, i., of Western North America. 

 2. C. oblonga, Wall. ; Korhoi, .bum-. ; Battnri, Cum. Himalaya, outer hills, 8-7,000 ft. 

 Kashmir-Bhutan. Khasi hills, Yunnan. A small tree. 1. aorrowlj oblong, petiole 



