Anogeissus.] COMBRUTACJE^. 339 



Flowers i-merous. Calyx-tuhe hairy at the base within, constricted 

 ahove the glabrous ovary and funnel-shaped ; teeth triangular, erect. 

 Petals narrowly ob ovate, far exceeding the calyx. Fruit 1^ in. long by 

 1 in. broad, with 4 papery coriaceous wings, puberulous or subglabrous. 

 Open grass-lands in Dehra Dun and on the Siwalik range ; Sub Himalayan 

 tracts of Eohilkhand, N. Oudh and Gorakhpur, and in Bundelkhand. 

 , DiSTRiB. Outer Himalaya from Jaunsar (up to 5,000 ft.) to Sikkim,; 

 W. Bengal and in the Cent, Provinces. The rootstock produces annually 

 stems bearing the leaves and flowers, which are burnt down by jangle 

 fires. 



3. ANOGEISSUS, Wall. ; El. Brit. Ind. ii, 450. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate or falsely opposite, petioled, 

 entire. Flowers in dense globose heads, on axillary peduncles usually 

 shorter than the leaves. Calyx-tube long, attenuated above the 

 ovary, subpersistent ; limb small, with 5 lobes, deciduous. Petals 0. 

 Stamens 10, in two series. Ovary inferior, 1-celled ; style filiform, 

 simple ; ovules 2, pendulous from the top of the cell. Fruit small, 

 coriaceous, compressed, 2- winged, packed horizontally into dense 

 heads. Seed 1. — Species about 7, one in Tropical Africa, and the 

 rest Indian. 



Calyx-tube shorter than the fruit. A small tree 



with pendulous branches . . * . 1. A. pendula. 



Calyx-tube longer than the fruit. Branches not 



pendulous. 



Elower-heads in fascicles or short racemes . 2. A. latifolia. 



Elower-heads on long peduncles, usually 

 solitary 3. A. sericea, 



1 A. pendula, JEJoigew. in Journ. As. Soc. Beng.xxi {1853), 171 ; Brand. 

 For. Fl. 229 ; Ind. For. xxv. (1899), 286; F. B. I. ii, 451 ; Watt E. D. C.ono- 

 caxpua myrtifolius, jBwcTi.-iTawi. ; Boyle III. 209.— Vern. Dhao (Merwdra), 

 dhauhra and Icadai (Bundelkhand). 



A small gregarious tree with pendulous branches, and appressed-pubes- 

 cent branchlets. Leaves f -2 in. long, broadly lanceolate or oblanceolate, 

 acute or obtuse, glabrous above and often silky beneath ; secondary 

 nerves 5-7 pairs. Floioer-heads under | in. in diam., on long slender 

 axillary peduncles. Eipe fruit nearly orbicular, upper portion and short 

 beak hairy. 



Forests of Bundelkhand and Merwara. Distbib. South to the Panch 

 Mahals and the Nerbudda river in Nimar. Flowers in Aug. The leaves 

 turn to a dull purple-red before falling. 

 2. A. latifolia. Wall. ; Brand. For. Fl. 227 ; F. B. I. ii, 450 ; Watt E. D • 



Conocarpus latifolia, DC; Boxh. Fl. Ind. ii. 442 ; Boyle III. 210, t.45 s 



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