m 



ftase, glaiidulosely dotted in front and at first at tte back, 2-ceil- 

 'ed, cells parallel, dehiscing above by a deep gaping cleft or ob- 

 long pore at the apex : ovary 4-ceUed, cells l-ovul'ed : style fili- 

 form, iearly equalling the stamens or longer, clavatiely thicken- 

 ed towards the Ijop : stigma capitstte, very Shdrtly 2-l6lied : drupe 

 baccate, 4-stoiied, stones when ripe distitict, l-cellied, putAmeh 

 Jiafd : seed erect. — Shrubs or uiidfershrtib's, rarely trees, more or 

 less hoary or rusty with stellate, rnealy or scurfy down, usually 

 beset with copious oil-bearing glands : leaves opposite, sinipie, 

 quite entire at the base : cymes axillary, diohotdmouB : flowers 

 sometimes polygamous. 



(1) C. CAJTA. (Linn.) 



Uent. Linn. Maflt. 11. p. 196. — Dalzi. Bomb. fldr. p. 206; 

 •^Roxb. flor. Ittd. I. p. 392. 



Syn. C. Wallichiana, W^aZp.— Dec.pr^rfiXI.j5.641.— C.H'eyhiii' 

 Roth. — C. tomentoSa, Lam. — C. acuminata, R6xb. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1480.— Bot. Mag. t. 2107. 



Spec. Char. Slirub or small tree : branchlets cymes and petioles 

 'densely rusty-tomentose : leaves membranaceous, broadly ovate, 

 roundish, or narrow, obtUse, or even acuminate at the base, long 

 petioled, attenuato-acuminate, entire, or slightly repalid, and mi- 

 nutely denticulate, reticUlate, rugoUs : adUlt ones, except on the 

 veins, glabrous above, densely woolly and whitish tomentose he-^ 

 neath : cymeS many-flowered, bipartite, divaricately-dichdtomousi 

 corymbose : peduncles of the length of the petiole ; calyx truncat«s 

 or slightly 4-lobed : flower pale red. 



Travancore frequeiit among low jungles. Silheit, flowering in 

 t'ebriiary and March. 



(2) C. A^BORfeA. {fioxb.') 



Ident. lioxb. fl. tnd. I. p. 39b.— Dec. prod.Xl. p. 641. 



Spec Char. Tree: branches tetragonal, together with the 

 cymes and petioles hoary with dense, diisty tomentum : leaves cori- 

 aceous, felliptic, obovate or oblong-elliptic, curieate at thfe base; 

 harrowed iiito a long petiole, entire or shai-ply rftpand-toothed, adult 

 oiles glabrate above, except at the nerves, shining, reticulate belowj 

 whit^ with stellate, mealy tomentum : cymes solitary or tern, 

 corymbose: iieduricle angled, nearly equalling the petiole: calyx 

 pulverulent, very small, very shoirtly 4-petioled: floweirs small^ 

 jpurple lilac; 



Chittagong. (Groalpara. Oiide. Flowering in the cold seasott,' 



