NAUCLEA CORDIFOLIA. (Nat o'rd. RubiacesB.) 



■MaUCLEA. (Linn.)— GEN. CHAR. Flowers capitate sessile upon a globose receptacle, calyx tube oblong, limb eitlier short or truncated or 5 

 partita with linear lobes, corol infundibuliform, tube slender with the throat naked, lobes five vallate in estivation patent oval oblong, anthers either included 

 or protruded shorter than the lobes of corol, style filiform protruded, stigma oblong or ovate terminal undivided, ovary cells two, placenta fixed near the 

 apex of the cells pendulous, capsules 2-celled seBaile upon a receptacle not tapering gradually at the base, seeds several imbricated, winged, or with a gland at 

 the hilum, attached to an oblong placenta that is adnate to the dissepiment, embryo inverted in fleshy albumen, unarmed trees, leaves opposite or verticel* 

 late, stipules deciduous. 



NaUCLEA COltDIFOLIA. fRosb.) A very large tree, trunk often with buttresses, tolerably straight, bark brownish 

 gray and cracked, branches very numerous, horizontal, forming a very large sliady head, leaves opposite petioled, broad cordate pointed 

 entire, above pretty smooth, downy underneath particularly when youug, beautifully reticulated with small veins 4-12 inches each 

 way, petioles round a little downy 2-3 inches long, stipules oval caducous, peduncles 1-4 together, axillary round downy 1 to 3 inches 

 long, jointed about two-thirds of the way up and there bearing two small scariose roundish deciduous bracts, calyx segments clavate 

 pubescent, corol pubescent, lobes spreading, anthers slightly protruded, style long, stigma shortly clavate. lloxb. Fl. lad. i. 514. 



An immense Ire.-, tolerably common in most of the forests in the Madras P 'residency ; also in Mysore, Bengal, Bombay, Birmah 

 and Ceylon, called Dudagu and taspu kadambe in Telugoo, Ilaldee in Einduslanee, Manja Kadambc in Tamil, Ahnow in South Canara, 

 Jluau in Birmah, and Kolong in Ceylon. The xoood is close grained, smooth, fibred, light yellow in color, and is mv.ch used for building purposes, 

 planking, <Lc, furniture chests, gun stocks, combs, &e. It will not stand wet. Dr. R .cburgh says it answers exceedingly well for furniture ; it 

 flowers in June, and the seed ripens at the end of the rains, 



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