Tectona.] cxi. verbbnace^. (C. B. Clarke.) 571 



scabrous or subglabrate above, calyx in fruit 1 in. diam. ovoid membranous, 

 Gaertn. Fruct. i. 275, t. 57 ; Boxh. Cor. PI. i. 10, t.-6, and Fl. Ind. i. 600 ; 

 Wall. Cat. 772 ; Qraham Cat. PI. Pnmh. 158 ; ScAauer in BC. Prndr. xi, 

 629; Bah. Sf GHbs. Bomb. Fl.\^9; Pocq. Eev. Verb. 99, t. 10; Pedd. FL 

 Syh. t. 250 (two); Prand. For. Fl. 854, t. 44; Kurz For. Fl.n.2h9; 

 Gamble Indian Timbers, 283. — Theka, Juss. Gen. 108; LamTe. III. 1. 136.— 

 Bumph. Serb. Amh. iii. t. 18 ; Bheede Sort. Mai. iv. t. 27. 



W. Deccan PENiifSTri,A, alt. 500-4000 ft., common ; from Centbai Indz'a to 

 Oeissa. Maiat Peninsula, alt. 500-4000 ft.; from Burma (common) to Malacca. 

 ^-DlSTElE. Sumatra, Java. 



A tree, 80-150 ft.; branchlets quadrangular, stellately tomentose. Leaves 12 by 

 8 in. (of seedlings sometimes 3 ft.), cuneate at both end3, mature with hard close 

 tomentum beneath ; petiole 1 in. Panicles 18 in. diam., and more ; flowers very 

 numerous, but only a few fertile ; bracts i by ,^ in., deciduous, with also usually some 

 reduced leaves at the forks. Calyx (in flower).^-^ in.jlobed less than half-way down, 

 stellatelv white-tomentose. Corolla scarcely -J in. long, white, glabrous in the throat. 

 Drape f in. diam. ; cells 4 with a central cavity, dens^y hirsiite ; calyx in fruit ovoid 

 or subpyramidal, membranous, dfteu reticnlately-nerved nearly glabrous, mouth very 

 small. — Teak. 



2. T. Kamiltonlana, Wall. PI. As. Bar. iii. 68, t. 294, and Gat. 

 773 ; leaves mostly temate whorled, ovate mature scabrid above, calyx in 

 fruit \ in. diam. narrowly urceolate densely wsolly. Walp. Bep. iv. 99 ; 

 Scliauer in BC. Prodr. xi. 629 (eKcl. the Philippine Island plant); Kurz 

 For. Fl. n. 259 ; Gamble Indian Timbers, 293. Theka ternifolia, Sam. in 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 18S. 



BtTEMA, at Prome ; Wallieh, Skrz. — Bisteib. Ava. 



A small tree, 30-^ ft. ; branchlets 6-8-angular. Leaves sometimes opposite or 

 4-nate, 8 by 5 in., base rhomboid or obtuse, white tomentose beneath or ultimately 

 softly hairy ; petiole f in. Panicle 6-12 in., stellately woolly ;' branches ascending. 

 . Cah/O! (in flower) ^ in., lobed scarcdy half-way down. Corolla 4 in. long, throat 

 very hairy; lobes pale blue. Drupe 5 by J in., glabrous or with some soft wool, 

 4-celled without a central cavity ; calyx in fruit 5 by 4 in., narrower upwards. — This 

 tree flowers before the leaves are ftilly developed. 



XI. PKEltllTA., linn. 



Trees or sbrubs, sometimes climbing. Leaves opposite, entire or toothed. 

 (7yTOe« corymbose or panioled, sometimes thyrsoid, pubescent ; bracts small, 

 narrow. Flowers often polyganious, greenish or yellowish white, small (in 

 P. cordifolia and P. eora/mbosa rather larger, then scarcely \ in. long). 

 Calyx small, cup-shaped, subentire or manutely 2-5-toothed, subequal or 

 2-lipp6d. Corolla tubular, throat hairy ; limb 2-lipped, 5-lobed, or sub- 

 equally 4-lobed. Stamens 4, didyniamous. Ovary 2- or 4-celled, 4-ovuled ; 

 style linear, shortly. bifid. Brupe small, surrounded below by the calyx, 

 globose or oblong-obovoid ; endocarp hard undivided 1-4-ceUed 1-4-seeded. 

 Seeds oblong. — Species 40, chiefly Indian. 



* Calyx 2-lipped or subtruncate, lips subentire. 



f Cymes forming an elongate interrupted thyrse. 



1. P. racemosa, Wall. Cat.'iTl'J ; leaves petioled ovate or obovate 

 acuminate, spikes simple densely shortly villous, calyx minutely hairy or 

 glabrate. Schauer in BC. Prodr. xi. 633; Brand. For. Fl. 367; Kurz 

 For. Fl. ii. 263. 



