Anoffeissus.] XXXVI. COMBRETACE^. 229 



Burma and Northern Circars. Godavery forests. A tree which Mr E. Thomp- 

 son in 1870 found on the Nagpahar in the Mandla district, and (abundantly) on 

 the Pachmarhi plateau, vern. Khardi, was referred to this species by Dr 

 Stewart ; but I have not seen any of the specimens collected by Mr Thompson, 

 and am therefore unable to decide whether it is this or the foHowimg species. 

 R. Thompson's description states, « The cones of this species are mi^ch larger 

 than those of C latifolia;' which would point to G. acuminata, and not to G. 

 myrUfolia, the cones of which are smaller. He further describes it as a tree of 

 moderate size, bark smooth, whitish, occasionally rugose and exfohatuig, dusky^ 

 Many-branched and well clothed with dense foliage. Leaves considerably 

 smaller than those of G- latifoUa. Coming into fresh leaf about May, buds and 

 young leaves covered with a beautiful silvery tomentum. Fl. in May ; seed 

 ripens Janl-Feb. 



In Burma A. acuminata is a lar^e tree, 12 ft. girth, trunk regularly shaped, 

 80 ft. to the first branch on good soil. The wood is greyish brown, with orange 

 or dark-brown streaks, hard, warps and cracks in seasoning. MeduUaiy rays 

 very numerous and very fine. Pores numerous, small, uniformly distributed. 

 Weight of a cub. ft. 50-59 lb. P. = 880 (Skinner). 



3. A. pendula, Edgeworth Catalogue of Plants in the Banda district, 

 p. 47.— Syn. A. myrtifoUa, WaU. Cat. No. 4017; Eoyle 111. p. 209. (The 

 latter name is older, but Edgeworth was the first to describe the tree.) 

 Vern. Dhao, Dhaukra, kala dhokra, Meywar ; Kar,dahi, GwaUor. 



A small gregarious tree, with pendulous branches, and Hght adpressed 

 pubescence on leaves and branchlets. Leaves alternate and subopposite, 

 obovate, obtuse or mucronate, \-\ in. long, narrowed into a short slender 

 petiole, with 5-7 pairs of arcuate lateral nerves joined by elegant reticulate 

 venation. Flower-heads small, \ in. across when in flower ; free part of 

 calyx-tube short, pubescent. Fruit with narrow wings, nearly orbicular ; 

 persistent calyx-tube shorter than fruit. 



Common in Eajputana and Bandelkhand, extends north to the banks of the 

 Jumna, and south to the Mye river ; has been found near Deesa (Stocks)l The 

 small-leaved Conocarpus on the Pachmarhi plateau is probably this species. 

 (Forsyth gives Conocarpus myrtifolia from the Satpuras under the vern. name 

 oi Kardahi, as not very common, with reddish- white wood. — The Highlands of 

 Central India, p. 462.) On dry hills only a shrub, under more favourable cir- 

 cumstances a moderate-sized tree. Trunk short, 3-5 ft: girth, branchlets droop- 

 ing. In January, when the tree is in fruit, the foliage has a beautiful red- 

 dish-brown colour similar to the foliage of Beech in autumn; This tree forms 

 forests on the hiUs of Meywar, near Humirgarh, Bassi, Chittor, and other 

 places, either pure or mixed: Often associated with Gonoca/rpus latifolia, 

 Gaseana, and a few other trees. Many of these forests of A .pendula are strictly 

 preserved, among others the forest which clothes the lower slopes of the Chit- 

 tor fort, and numerous temple forests in that part of the country; It is also 

 found on the dry gneiss hills of Mairwara near Todgarh. The tree coppiice 

 well, and as it thrives in the dry districts of Central India its requirements 

 merit careful study. Experiments with the wood, grown in Gwalior, were made 

 by Cunningham — the cub; ft. was found to weigh 59 lb., the value of P. in 5 

 experiments ranged between 697 and 1034, average 837, 



