34i MYRTACE^. [CiBBYA. 



Forests of EoMlkhand and N. Oudh, usually on the banks of streams or in 

 moist ground. Disteib. Common in Bengal, and south to Ceylon; 

 extending to Burma, the Malay Islands and N. Australia. Much culti- 

 vated in gardens. Flowers in May, and the fruit ripens in Sept, and 

 Oct. Various parts of the plant are used medicinally. The wood is 

 employed chiefly for boat-building and well-work. The pounded bark 

 is often used for stupefying fish. 



3. CABEYA, Rcxb ; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii, 510. 



Trees or very small shrubs. Leaves alternate, crowded towards the 

 ends of the branches, membranous, slightly crenate-serrate, pinnate- 

 nerved, not dotted, narrowed at the base, sessile or petioled. Flowers 

 large, in racemes or interrupted spikes. Calyx-tube campanulate 

 or funnel-shaped, hardly produced above the ovary ; lobes 4 ovate, 

 imbricate, Petals 4, imbricate. Stamens many, in several series, 

 slightly connate at the base ; filaments filiform, innermost and outer- 

 most without anthers. Ovary inferior, 4-5-celled, crowned by an 

 annular disk ; style long, simple ; stigma small ; ovules many, on 

 axile vertical placentas, in 2 rows in each cell. Fruit large, globose, 

 fibrous, crowned with the calyx ; dissepiment absorbed or obscure. 

 Seeds many, lying in pulp, ellipsoid, albumen 0.— Species 4, three 

 ludian, and one in N. Australia. 



A small undershrub with stalked flowers 1. C. herhacea. 

 A tree with sessile flowers . . . 2. C. arhorea. 



1. C. herbacea, Boxl. Hort. Beng. 52 ; FL Ind. ii, 63S ; Brand. For. Fit 

 237; F. B. I. ii, 510 ; Watt E. D. 



A small undershrub with a woody rootstock, throwing up annually herb- 

 aceous leafy flowering shoots about 1 ft, high. Leaves about 7 in. long, 

 cuneate-oblong or obovate, obtuse or emarginate, serrulate, glabrous or 

 olDScurely puberulous ; petioles up to i in. long. Flowers stalked, 1-2 

 on each shoot, terminal, jointed within the bracts ; bracts 2, linear, at the 

 base of the calyx. Calyx i in. long; tube campanulate, terete; lobes 

 ovate, obtuse. Petals 1-1 5 in. long, elliptic, greenish-purple. Fruit 

 1-li in. in diam., globose, crowned by the persistent calyx and style. 



Open grassy places on the Siwalik range and in Eohilkhand and N. Oudh. 

 DiSTBiB. Eastward to Chittagong and the Khasia Hills, throughout 

 the drier parts of Bengal and in the Central Provinces. Eeduced" to a 

 small xindershrub by periodical jungle fires. Flowers in March and 

 April. 



2. C. ar"borea, Bozl. Hort. Beng. 54: Fl.Ind. ii, 638; W. S- A. Prod, 

 SU;I).SfG. Bomh. Fl. 95; Brand. For. Fl. 236; F.B.I.ii, 511 ; WaU 

 S. D.— Vern. Kumhi. 



A large deciduous tree with dark-grey bark. Leaves 6-12 in. long, shortly 

 stalked, oblong or orbicular, obtuse or shortly acuminate ; narrowed at 



