402 CORNACMM, ^ [Alangium 



I<IX.~CORNACE^. 



ShruT)s or trees. Leaves opposite or alternate, generally petioled, 

 entire or occasionally angular lobed or serrate, frequently unequal 

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

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

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

 sisteot, Petals or 4-5 (occasionally indefinite), epigynous, imbri- 

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

 in Dumber, rarely twice or thrice as many. Ovary inferior, 1-4- 

 celled, crowned by a usually fleshy sometimes inconspicuous disk ; 

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

 solitary (very seldom 2-3), 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 abundant 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. Maelba. 



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



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

 oblong, entire, S-ner^ed at the base, persistent. Flowers in axillary 

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

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

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

 reflexed. /S'teweTis twice as many as the petals or more, filaments 

 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. B. A. decapetalum, Lamk.; 

 W. Sc A. Prod. 325. A. hexapetalum, LamTc. ; Boxb. Fl. Ind. 

 ii, 502 J W. Sf A. Prod. 326. — ^Vern. Akola, anhara, bismdr 

 (Saharanpur). 



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

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



