N. 0. CORNACE^. 637 



Calyx 5-toothed or nearly entire. Petals 5, valvate. Stamens 

 5, Ovary 5-celled ; style connate in a short column. Fruit 

 *25-'3in. diam., globose, yellow, turning black when fully ripe, 

 shining ; seeds 3-4 ovoid (Kanjilal.) 



Wood light-grey or yellow, soft and porous. Annual rings 

 distinct. Flowers— October, April, February, Jan. -June. 



Uses : — Dry leaves are used to stimulate sores ; and the 

 berries to purge (Irvine). 



N. 0. CORNA.CE.aE. 



588. Alangium Lamar ekii, Thwaites. h.f.b.i., 

 ii. 746. 



Syn. : — A. hexapetalum, Lamk. Roxb. 404. 



Sans. : — Ankota. 



Vern. : — Akola, thaila ankul (Hind, and Dec.) ; Ankola, 

 kala-akola (Bom.) ; Akar-kanta, baghankara (Beng.) Alangi, 

 azhinji (Tam.) ; Amkolam-chettu (Tel.) ; Ankola (Gond.) ; 

 Dhalakura (Beng.) ; (in U. C. Dutt's Mat. Med.) Anisaruli- 

 mara, eopoata (Can.); Onkla fGuz.) ; Dela (Santal) ; Ankol 

 (Kol.) ; Ankula, dolanku (Uriya). 



Habitat : — Sub-Himalayan tract, from the Ganges eastward 

 to Oudh, Bengal, Central and South India. 



This is a very handsome tree, and grows very well in the 

 Concan. Whether in foliage, flower or fruit, in whatever 

 condition or season it is seen, it is a striking plant. It is 

 beautifully green-leaved throughout the year. Gamble, however, 

 says " it is a deciduous small tree, shrub or straggler." 

 Brandis says "a shrub or small tree." "Bark fin. thick, grey, 

 when young orange-yellow, fibrous. Wood hard, close and 

 even-grained, sapwood light yellow, heartwood olive-brown 

 with a pleasant scent " (Gamble). From all accounts it appears 

 to be a very variable plant. My description is mainly drawn 

 from a large tree growing with a girth of 9 feet in the Military 

 Hospital, Thana (1881-1897), and in the adjacent Mahomedan 

 grave-yard where the main trunks of several trees constantly 

 sent out " suckers." The tree in the Military Hospital compound 

 had nearly half a dozen distinct trees developed from such 



