354 LX. VEKBENACEiE. [Tectona. 



Fruit a fleshy drape ; calyx not much enlarged ; leaves simple. 

 Flowers in terminal raoemiform panicles composed of lateral 

 cymes ; coroUa-tube short, with a wide open mouth ; 

 style unequally 2-lol)ed . . .... 3. Gmblina. 



Flowers in terminal trichotomous panicles, or in a spike-like 



thyrsus ; corolla-tube short, campanulate or cylindrical, 



lobes unequal ; style with 2 short acute stigmatic lobes 4. Pbemna. 



Flowers in axillary cymes ; corolla campanulate, regular 



style dilated and truncate, or shortly 2-lobed 

 Flowers in bracteate heads or spikes . ... 



Fruit a fleshy drupe ; calyx not enlarged ; leaves digitate 

 Frait dry, dehiscent into 4 one-seeded segments. 

 Calyx campanulate • corolla-tube short, limb bilabiate . . 8. Cabyopteeis. 

 CaJxy with a large spreading circular limb ; corolla-tube cy 



liudrio, curved 9- Holmskioldia. 



Fruit a 2-valved capsule; calyx 6-sepalous, supported by 



bracts 10. AviOBNNiA. 



5. Callioaepa. 



6. Lantana. 



7. VlTEX. 



1. TECTONA, Linn. fil. 



Trees witli four-sided branchlets; young shoots and leaves clothed with 

 stellate tomentum. Leaves large, opposite, entire. Flowers in trichoto- 

 mous panicles. Calyx campanulate, lobes 5-6, imhricate in hud. Corolla 

 infundihuliform, tube short, about as long as calyx, lobes 5 or 6, spread- 

 ing, nearly equal. Stamens as many as coroUa-lobes, exserted. Ovary 

 4-ceUed, 1 ovule in each cell ; stigma bifid. Fruit an indehiscent, hard, 

 bony 4-cellEd nut, enclosed in a thick spongy covering, which is sur- 

 rounded by the enlarged and inflated membranous calyx. Albumen ; 

 embryo straight, with fleshy, oily cotyledons, and an inferior radicle. 



4- 1. T. grandis, Linn, fil.— Tab. XLIV — Eoxb. Cor. PI. t. 6 ; Fl. Ind. 

 i. 600 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 250. TJie Teak tree.— Sans. Saka ; Arab. Saj ; 

 Pers. Sdj, sal. Vem. Sdgun, Hind. ; Sag, sdgwan, Mar. ; Tekku, Tamil 

 and Malayalim ; Teku, Telugu ; Tegu, Tulu and Canarese ; Kyun, Burm. ; 

 Jdti, Java. 



A large deciduous tree ; branchlets four - sided and channelled, wtth 

 large quadrangular pith. Leaves oval or obovate, blade 1-2 ft. long, 6-12 

 in. broad, petiole 1-1^ in. long, in seedlings and coppice-shpots the leaves 

 much larger, 2-3 ft. long ; upper side rough, under side clothed with 

 dense stellate, grey or tawny tomentum ; main lateral nerves prominent, 

 8-10 pair, with 2 or 3 large branches near the edge of leaf, joined by 

 numerous parallel transverse veins. Flowers white, on short pedicels, 

 in large erect terminal cross-branched cymose panicles 1-3 ft. long, with 

 short lanceolate bracts. Fruit subglobose, more or less indistinctly 4-lobed, 

 ^ in. diam., the thick spongy pericarp consisting of a dense felt of branched 

 hairs ; the nut uneven, with 1, 2, 3, rarely 4 seeds, and a central cavity 

 having the appearance of a 5th cell. When the seed germinates, the outer 

 wall of each cell comes off bodily like a round, concave cap. The Inflated 

 calyx, enclosing the fruit like a bladder, is generally ovoid, sometimes de- 

 pressed, reticulate, and more or less crumpled or irregularly plaited, \-\\ 

 in. diam. 



