Maelea.] corn a CE^. 4C S 



Calyx-teeth minute. Petals usually 6-7, lanceolate, woolly outside. 

 Stamens 20-30. Berry | in. long, ellipsoid, pubescent, finally glabrous, 

 black, filled with red pulp, endocarp bony. 



Common within the area, except in Dehra Dun, where Kanjilal says it 

 has not been found. Disteib. Throughout the greater part of India, 

 extending to Ceylon, Burma, the Malay Penins. and Islands, S. China, 

 the Philippines and E. Africa. Flowers Feb. to April. The aromatic 

 root-bark is medicinal, and the hard brown heart-weed is used for 

 oil-mills and other purposes. 



2. MARLEA, Eoxb.; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii, 742. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, petioled, orbicular or oblong 

 from an oblique base. Floivers in axillary contracted cymes, white, 

 jointed on the pedicel, hermaphrodite. Calyx-tube adnate to the 

 ovary, limb toothed or truncate. Petals 4-8, linear, free or slightly 

 cohering at the base, valvate. Stamens 4-8, filaments attached to 

 the petals slightly at the base and there usually hairy ; aw^^er* 

 linear. Ovary 1-3-celled or 1-celled at the apex, 2-3-celled at tbe base, 

 crowned by a disk ; style long, often thicker upwards and pubescent ; 

 stigma simple or lobes 4, linear or sub-clavate ; ovule solitary in each 

 complete or incomplete cell. Berry 1-2- celled, 1-2-seeded. 8eed (in 

 M. hegoniafolia) oblong, compressed ; cotyledons orbicular, thin, 

 leaf J. — Species 9, India to Japan, Malaya, Australia and Polynesia. 



M. begonisefolia, Boxb. Eort. Beng. 28 ; Fl. Ind. ii, 261 ; Brand. 



For.Fl.251;F.B.I.ii,743; Watt E. D. M.'affinis, Dene in Jacquem. 

 Toy. Bot.t. 83. Alangium begonisefolium, Barms, in Engl, and Frantl. 

 Pflanxenf. Voi. Hi, part 8, p. 261. 



A small tree with grey bark, branches horizontal, young parts villous. 

 Leaves simple, about 41 in. long, or sometimes much longer, orbicular 

 to broadly oblong, acuminate, unequally rounded or subcordate at the 

 base, distantly angular or entire, glabrous above, puberulous on the 

 nerves beneath; iJei'ioie J -Ii in,, glabrous or fulvous-hairy. Cymes 1-3 

 in., dichotomous, 8-12-flowered, more or less fulvous-hairy. Petals 6-8, 

 strap-shaped, slightly hairy, white. Style hairy, stigma 2-4_-lobed. 

 Fruit i in. long, ovoid, obscurely ribbed, glabrous, crowned with the 

 very shallow calyx-limb. 



Dehra Dun, in swamps (Kanjilal). Disteib. Outer Himalaya, up to 

 6,000 ft., Bengal, Khasia Hills, Burma ; also the Malay Archipel., China, 

 Japan and in E. and W. Africa. Flowers March to May. The 

 foliage resembles that of a maple. The leaves are collected for sheep- 

 fodder on the Himalaya. 



a. I, 0. P. O.-No. 1797 E. & A.-10-2-1903.-l,000.— E. B. 



