236 XXXVII. MYETACE^. [Barrinffionia. 



Australia. Leaves shed and renewed March, April. Fl. May ; fr. Sept.-Oot. 

 Attains a height of 30 and a girth of 5 ft., with a short trunk, and large crooked 

 spreading branches. Bark 1 in. thick, cinereous or brownish black, rough with 

 longitudinal reticulate cracks and furrows, and irregularly oblong exfoliating 

 scales. Wood pale or reddish-brown, turns black if buried in mud, fine-, close-, 

 but short-grained, hard, tough, strong, weight of cub. ft. 56 lb. (Skinner), 39.4 

 (Kyd) ; value of P. 315 (Kyd), 648 (Benson, green wood), 863 (Skinner). Said 

 to be durable. No distinct heartwood. Used for boat-ljuilding, in wells, for 

 carts, rice-pounders, and by cabinet-makers. The pounded bark is used to in- 

 toxicate fish ; mixed with chaff and pulse, it is given as cattle-fodder. 



5. CAREYA, Eoxb. 



Trees or undershrubs, with alternate leaves approximate near the ends 

 of branches, and large sbowy flowers. Calyx wholly adnate to the ovary, 

 ovoid or turbinate, with a 4-cleft limb. Petals 4, spreading. Stamens 

 very numerous, in several rows ; filaments distinct above, united at the 

 base into a thick fleshy ring, inserted with the petals ; the exterior and 

 interior stamens generally without anthers, the middle row antheriferous ; 

 anthers small, versatile, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary 4-ceIIed, with 

 numerous ovules attached to axile placentas ; style filiform ; stigma 

 capitate, obscurely 4-lobed or -toothed. Fruit globose, with a thick rind, 

 numerous seeds embedded in a fleshy pulp. No albumen. Embryo large, 

 almond-like, structure similar to that of Barringtonia. 



A large tree ; flowers sessile . . , . , , 1. C. arhorea. 

 An undershrub ; flowers pedunculate 2. C herbacea. 



1. 0. arborea, Eoxb. Cor. PI. t. 218 ; "Wight 111. t. 99, 100 ; Bedd. 

 Fl. Sylv. t. 205, Anal. t. 18 ii. j W. & A. Prodr. 334. Vem. Kumbi 

 kumbh, Khumhi. Gond. names : Kumri, Chindwara ; Gumar, Mandla, 

 Balaghat. 



A large tree, wholly glabrous. Leaves obovate-oblong, membranous, 

 sessile or narrowed into short marginate petiole, crenate, with 10-12 

 pair of prominent main lateral nerves. Flowers large, sessile, a few 

 together at the ends of branchlets, white and pink, with an unpleasant 

 smell. Fruit globose, green, 3 in. across, crowned with the persistent 

 calyx-segments. 



Common in South India, Bengal, and Burma. Sparingly found in the forests 

 of the Central Provinces, Oudh, and in the sub-Himalayan tract, where it ex- 

 tends west a little beyond the tTumna. Grown here and there in gardens in the 

 Panjab. (In North Australia and Queensland a tree is found nearly related to 

 this, C arborea, var. austraUs, Benth'. Fl. Austr. iii. 289.) Bare during part 

 of the dry season, the new foliage appears in March, April. Fl. with the 

 young leaves ; fr. ripens and falls about July. 



Under favourable circumstances attains a height of 50, and a girth of 8 ft., 

 but in Central and North India is generally a much smaller tree. Bark 1-2 in. 

 thick, dark grey, or dark brown, smooth or rough, with large exfoliating scales. 

 Inner bark red, very fibrous. Sapwood yellowish white, large, heartwood duU 

 red, or reddish brown, beautifully mottled, even-grained, hard and strong, does 

 not season weU, is apt to split, but takes a fine polish. The weight of a cub 

 ft. of seasoned wood is given by Skinner at 50 lb., and this may probably be 



