ANOGEISSUS LA.TIFOLIUS. (Nat. ord. CombretacesB.) 



AN06EISSUS. (Wall.) Gen. PI. p. 687.— GEN. CHAR. Flowers densely aggregated on a common receptacle, calyx tube compressed 2 

 winged at the base, attenuated and much produced beyond the ovary and resembling a pedicel to the limb, limb campanulate or urceolate 5 fid deciduous, 

 lobes valvate, petals 0. stamens 10 in 2 series, filaments filiform subulate exserted, anthers small cordate ; ovary 1 -celled, style filiform, thickened at the 

 base villous, stigma simple, ovules 2 pendulous from the apex of the cell. Fruit small, broadly trapezoid, 2-winged terminating in a long beak (the per- 

 sistent calyx tube) 1-seeded. Seed ovoid, cotyledons convolute, trees or shrubs glabrous or sericeous, leaves alternate petiolate entire without glands or 

 obscurely glandular at the base, flowers small yellowish, capituli axillary. 



AiVOGEISSUS LATIFOLIUS. (Roxb.) A lofty tree, 30 to 40 feet to the first branch, and up to 8 or 9 feet in circum- 

 ference, bark smooth of a whitish color, branches numerous, spreading, forming a large high head, leaves alternate without glands 

 elliptical or obovate obtuse or emarginate glabrous from 1 to 4 inches long and from 1 to 2 broad, peduncles axillary bearing several 

 ramifications each supporting a little globular head of small yellow flowers. Wall. L. n. 4015 ; — Conocarpus latifolius, Roxb. FL 

 Lid. ii. 442. 



This is a very valuable timber tree, common throughout the Madras Presidency, Mysore, Bombay, Bengal and Ceylon, and attaint a 

 large size on many of our mountains ; it is common in the plains, and ascends the mountains to an elevation of about 3,000 feet ; it is known by the 

 names of Chiriman and Sheriman a'icl Yella Maddi in Teligoo, Vellay nagcb and Veckalie in Tamil, Dhobu in Oorea, Dhowra and Dhaori in 

 Hindustani and Alahratta, and Dawn in Ceylon. Its wood is light colored with a purple heart ; it is close-grained and very durable when properly 

 seasoned; it is much used in house building and in ship building, and is one of the best woods for poles and axle-trees of carts, and is much utedj 

 by the "natives for agricultural implements. If left in the. forests exposed to weather the wood rapidly deteriorates and is soon attacked by insects 

 and white ants, — the wood from small trees wants the dark colored heart and is anything but durable. Except a few specimens in Botanical 

 Gardens, there have been no attempts at planting this tree. The leaves are used by tanners, A gum exudes from the bark which is collected (as 

 Dkaori ha gond) in Central India, and sold in the ba^aai's. 



15 s 



