NAUOLEA PARVIFOLIA. (Nat. ord. Eubiace^.) 



lor Geu. Char, sea uuder " N. cordifolia-" 



xN AUCLEA PARVIFOLIA. (Roxb.) A large tree, trunk straight, bark brownish gray and crooked, peeling off in irregular 

 patches, branches opposite numerous spreading, forming a large oval shady head; leaves opposite petioled ovate or oval or obovate, 

 obtuse or with a short blunt point, entire, glabrous, except iu the axils of the nerves beneath, 2-3 inches long by 1 to l^ 

 broad, stipules large oval or oblong glutinous caducous, peduncles ternate, the opposite pair often passing into Auriferous shoots 

 bearing a pair of small deciduous leaves and jointed near the apex, intermediate or terminal peduncle short usually not jointed, limb 

 of the calyx very short arid almost truncated, corol light yellow, tube widening upwards, lobes pointed spreading, anthers pointed 

 shortly protruding, style long, stigma narrow oblong calyptriform, capsules containing two cocci splitting at the inner angle. Roxb. Fl. 

 Ind. i. 513 ; — Nauclea parviflora, Pers. Syn. i. p. 750 ; — Nauclea Orieutalis, Linn, (partim). 



This useful tree is common in almost every forest tract throughout the Madras Presidency, and is found in Mysore, Bengal, Bombay, 

 Birmah and Ceylon ; it is called Bnta Kadambe in Tamil, Nir Kadambe in Teligoo, Congoo and Hedu in Canarese, Keim and Kangei in 

 Bindustanee, Kadam in Bombay, and Hteim in Birinah. Its tcoodis light chesnut colored, Jinn, close-grained, and much in use for building, gun 

 stocks, and various other purposes ; it requires to be kept dry as it soon rots if exposed to xoet. The leaves are used as fodder. 



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