402 COUNACEM. [Alangium. 



Shrubs or trees. Leaves opposite or alternate, generally petioled, 

 entire or occasionally angular lobed or serrate, frequently unequal 

 at tlie base ; stipules 0. Flowers usually small, regular, hermaphro- 

 dite or 1- sexual, in axillary or terminal cymes panicles or heads. 

 Calyx-tiihe adnate to the ovary ; limb truncate or 4-5 -toothed, per- 

 sistent, Fetals oi 4-5 (occasionally indefinite), epigynous, imbri- 

 cate or valvate. Stamens inserted with the petals and equal to them 

 in number, rarely twice or thrice as many. Ovcr:^^ inferior, 1 -4- 

 celled, crowned by a usually fleshy sometimes inconspicuous disk ; 

 style single, short or long, stiuma capitate or branched ; ovules 

 solitary (very seldom 2-b), pendulous from the apex of the cell. 

 Fruit generally succulent, 1-4-celled, less often with 2 pyrenes.. 

 Seed oblong, pendulous ; albumen copious, fleshy.— Species about 90, 

 widely scattered, but most abnndant in the N. Hemisphere. 



Stamens twice or thrice as many as the 

 petals, cotyledons crumpled . . ,1. Alangium:. 



Stamens as many as the petals, cotyledons 

 flat. . . ' 2. Maelea. 



1. ALANGIUM, Lamk, ; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii, 741. 



Shrubs or small trees, armed or not. Leaves alternate, petioled, 

 oblong, entire, 3-nerved at the base, persistent. Flowers in axillary 

 fascicles or condensed cymes, hermaphrodite, silky, white, jointed on 

 the pedicel bracts 0. Calyx-tuhe adnate to the ovary, limb 5-10- 

 toothed or truncate. Petals 5-10, linear-oblong, valvate, becoming 

 re flexed. Stamens twice as many as the petals or more, _^^awe«if6r 

 hairy ; anthers very long. Ovary inferior, 1-celled, , surmounted by 

 a disk ; style very long ; stigma large, capitate ; ovule pendulous. 

 Fruit a berry, crowned by the somewhat enlarged calyx-limb. 

 Seed oblong; albumen ruminated, cotyledons crumpled.— Species 

 2 or 3, in tropical and sub-tropical Asia and Africa. 



. A. Lamarckii, Thwaites ; D. ^ G. Bomb. Fl. 109 ; Brand. For. Fl. 

 250 ; F. B I.ii, 741 ; Watt E. D- A. decapetalum, Lamk ; W. # A. Prod. 

 325. A. hexapetalum, Lamk. ; Boxh. Fl. Ind. ii, 502 ; W. ^ A. Prod. 826. 

 — Vern. Ahoia, ankara, hismdr (>^aharanpur). 



A shrub or small tree with grey bark, often spinescent. Leaves 3-6 in., 

 alternate, oblong or elliptic, acute or subobtuse, unequally rounded at 

 the base, nearly glabrous above, pubescent on the nerves beneath ; 

 petiole 5 in., villous or rusty-tomentose. Flowers solitary or fascicled 

 white, fragrant ; 'peduncles pedicels and calyx-tuhe usually woolly, 



