334 BSIZOPHORE^. [Caballia. 



C. lucida, Eoxb. Hort. Beng. 92 ; Cor. PI. Hi, t. 211 ; Fl. Ind. ii, 481 ; 

 King in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LXVI, part ii, 318. 0. integerrima, DC; 

 D. ^ G. Bomb. Fl. 95 ; Brand,. For. Fl.\219 ; F.B.I, ii, 439 ; Watt E. D. 



A large evergreen tree with dark-grey "bark, often developinglaerial roots 

 on the trunk. Leaves 3-5 in, long, obovate or elliptic-oblong, shortly 

 cuspidate at the apex, cuneate at the base, entire or rarely serrulate 

 towards the apex, glabrous, coriaceous, shining, margins recurved; 

 lateral nerves many, spreading and freely inarching; petioles stout. 

 Cynes umbellate and usually 3-chotomous, asillary and from the axils of 

 fallen leaves, on stout peduncles about as long as the petioles. Flowers 

 about ^ in. long, sessile. Calyx-tube cylindric; teeth 6-7, triangular, 

 incurved. Petals equal in number to the calyx-teeth, not embracing the 

 stamens, orbicular, crenate, clawed, white. Stamens twice as many aa, 

 and longer than, the petals. Fruit globose, 1-celled and usually 1- 

 seeded, glabrous, fleshy. 



Dehra Dun, in swamps (Gamble and Kanjilal), forests of IST. Oudh in the 

 Bahraich District (Duthie'sJ collector). Distbib. Moist evergreen 

 forests of W. and S. India to Ceylon, Sikkim, Himalaya, Assam, Sylhet, 

 Burma, Malay Peninsula and Islands ; also in China and Trop. Australia, 

 Flowers Dec-April. The reddish-brown heartwood is hard, durable 

 and very ornamental. It polishes well and is much prized for making 

 into furniture. 



XLVin.-COMBRETACE.ffi. 



Trees or shrubs often climbers. Leaves alternate subopposite or 

 opposite, sometimes ternate, petioled entire and usually simple ; 

 stipules 0. Flowers bracteolate at the base, usually in spikes or 

 racemes, the racemes often panicled, sometimes polygamo-mouoecions. 

 Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary and produced above it ; lobes usually 

 4-5, valvate. Petals 4-5 or 0. Stamens 4-5 or 8-9, on the calyx. 

 Ovary altogether inferior, 1-celled ; style simple, stigma usually 

 simple ; ovules 1-7, pendulous from the apex of the cell. Fruit coria- 

 ceous or drupaceous, generally indehiscent, ovate angular or often 

 winged. 8eed 1, wituout albumen. — Species about 320, in the 

 tropics of whole world. 



Flowers in spikes or racemes. 



Trees with alternate or subopposite leaves, 

 petals 1. Tebminalia. 



Shrubs with opposite leaves, pafcals ^-h . 2, Combbetum. 



Flowers in globose heads, petals . . .3. Anogbissus. 



