356 



LIX. COENACEjE 



[Cornus 



£-§ in. long, sec. n. 3-5 

 paii - , impressed above. 

 Calyx and petals very 

 slightly hairy. Drupe 

 ovoid, J in. long. 3. C. 

 sangninea, Linn. On a 

 high mountain range 

 south of the Kashmir 

 valley at 7,000 ft., found 

 once only by Dr. J. L. 

 Stewart. Europe and Si- 

 beria. L. elliptic. Sec. 

 n. 3-4 pair, the lowest 

 pair basal, peduncles 

 longer than cymes. 



B. El. in globose 

 bracteate heads. 



4. C. capitata, 



Wall. PI. As. Ear. t. 



214; Collett Simla El. 



219, fig. 67. Vern. 



Thama, Tharmal, Pb., 



B amor a, Bamaur, 



N.-W. P. ; Tumbuk ; 



Lepcha. 



A small deciduous tree, branchlets and 1. rough with short stiff appressed 

 hairs. L. coriaceous, pale beneath, approximate at the ends of branchlets, 

 blade 2-4, narrowed into petiole \ in. long. El. closely packed in terminal 

 heads with a conspicuous involucre of 4 large yellow petaloid bracts. Drupes 

 uniting into a fleshy strawberry-like head, 1 in. diam., each drupe with a hard 

 1-seeded stone. 

 Outer Himalaya from Kulu to Bhutan. Khasi and Naga hills. PI. April-Oct. 



Pig. 148. — Cornus oblonga, Wall. 



4. MASTIXIA, Blume ; El. Brit. Ind. ii. 745. 



Trees, resin-canals in the pith. L. alternate or opposite, entire. El. small, 

 bisexual, 4-5-rnerous, 2-bracteolate, in terminal many-fid. panicles. Calyx- 

 tube as well as the valvate petals pubescent ; disk large, fleshy. Ovary 

 inferior, 1-celled, ovule 1, pendulous. Drupe with a hard fleshy pericarp and a 

 bony endocarp, which is deeply intruded down one side, dividing the seed into 

 2 lobes, embryo in copious fleshy albumen, radicle long. Species 18, India and 

 Malaya. 



1. M. arborea, C. B. Clarke ; Bedd. PI. Sylv. t. 216.— Syn. Byrsinopetalum arhoreum, 

 "Wight Ic. t. 956. Cachar. Evergreen forests of the Western ghats and adjoining hill 

 ranges 2-7,000 ft., from the Konkan southwards. Ceylon. A very large evergreen tree, 

 1. coriaceous, blade 2-9, petiole i-2 in. long. PI. green, disk yellow, the lowest branches 

 of panicle often in the axils of small 1. or large bracts, fr. ellipsoid li in. long, purplish- 

 green. Possibly identical with M. pentandra, Blume, of Java. If proved, this name 

 will take precedence. No specific difference between 31. arborea and pentandra of PI. 

 Brit. India. 2. M. euonymoides, Pram in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, vol. 67. 295. Each in 

 hills. L. opposite, blade 4, pet. f in. long, fr. almost cylindrical, § in. long. Perhaps 

 the same as a very large tree 200 ft. high, bole 100 ft. to first branch found by Watt at 

 Eupra, Manipur, 6,000 ft. 



Aucuba himalaica, Hook f . Sikkim 5-9,000 ft. Bhutan. Manipur 8,000ft. A large 

 shrub or small tree, evergreen, young shoots clothed with long silky hairs. L. opposite, 

 lanceolate, denticulate or serrate, blade 3-8, pet. 1 in. long. PI. dioecious, tetramerous, 

 lurid-purple, in small axillary and terminal, often fasciculate hairy panicles. Calyx- 

 tube hairy, petals lanceolate, valvate, 6* : stamens 4, around a quadrangular fleshy disk. 

 ? : ovary 1-celled. Berry scarlet or orange; A in. long. This may possibly be only a 

 form of the Japanese A. japonica, Thunb., cultivated in all temperate countries, often 

 with variegated leaves. 



