ANACOLOSA DENSIFLORA. (Nat. order Olacineae.) 



ANACOLOSA. Bl. — GEN. CHAR. Calyx small cyathiform truncate denticulate free, unchanged in fruit, disk hypogynous adnate to the 

 ovary increasing in fruit, petals 6 inserted into the margin of the disk, valvate, concave at the base where they embrace the anthers, hairy above, stamens 

 6 inserted at the base of the petals and opposite to them, anthers ovate, ovary immersed in the disk 1-3 celled generally imperfectly partitioned, style 

 entire or 3 toothed, ovules 2-3 pendulous from nearly the apex of the axis, drupe baccate 1 seeded with a ringed margin near the apex of the adnate disk, 

 putamen crustaceous, embryo small in the apex of fleshy albumen, radicle superior, leaves alternate entire coriaceous, flowers congested in the axils 

 pedicellate. 



ANACOLOSA DENSIFLORA. (Bedd.) A lofty tree, branches terete, leaves glabrous shining oblong, obtusely acuminate, 

 rounded at the base, 4-5 inches long by 1 J-2 broad, petiole J inch long, flowers 7-20 fascicled in the axils, pedicels about 3 lines long, 

 flowers 3 lines long, pale yellowish very fragrant, calyx with 4-6 minute teeth, petals very hairy within, filaments glabrous, ovpry 

 2-3 celled, style 3 fid. Bedd. Linn. Trans, vol. xxv. p. 211. 



This is a very lofty timber tree which I have only met within the Anamallays, moist forests at 2000 feel elevation ( Anagoondi shola,) 

 it flowers in November and December, when the boughs are a perfect mass of ve>'y fragrant flowers. 



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