Mablea.] COBNACE^. 



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

 'petiole I in., villous or rusty-tomentose. JFiowers solitary or fascicled , 

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

 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 Kan jilal 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-wood is used for 

 oil-mills and other purposes . 



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



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



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



iointed on tbe pedicel, hermaphrodite. Calyx-tuhe adnate to the- 



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



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



the petals slightly at the base and there usually hairy; anthers 



linear. Ovary 1-3-celled or 1-celled at the apex, 2-3-celled at the 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. Seed (in 



M, hegonicefolia) oblong, compressed ; cotyledons orbicular, thin, 



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



M. IbegoniaefoUa, Roxh. Eort. Beng. 28 : Fl» Ind. ii, 261 ; Brand, 



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



Jacquem. Voy. Bat. t. 83. Alangium begonisefoliura, .Harms, in 



Fngl. and Prantl. PJlanzenf. Vol, Hi, part 8, p. 261, 



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



Leaves simple, about 4^ in. long, or sometimes much longer, orbicular 



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



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



nerves beneath ', petiole l-lf in., glabrous or fulvous-hairy. Cymes 1-3 



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



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



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



very shallow calyx-limb. 



Dehra Dun, in swamps (Kaniilal). DiSTElB. Outer Himalaya, up to 

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

 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 en the Himalaya. 



