BlNDiA.] ; BUBIACE^. 419 



•asually slender ; lol)eB ovate, spreading. Anthers shortly exserted, 

 on very short filaments. Stigmas ohlong. 

 N. Ondh ("R. Thompson, and Duthie). Flowers Jan. to March. Disteib. 

 Trop. Himalaya from Garhwal eastward to the Khasia Hills, and 

 from Bengal south to the Godaveri ; also in Burma. In Bengal and 

 Assam the bark is used as a mordant in dyeing. 



13. RANDIA, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iii, .109. 



Shrubs or trees, unarmed or spinous. Leaves opposite or with 

 one often arrested, stipules short, intrapetiolar, free or connate. 

 Flowers in axillary ov leaf -opposed cymes, or solitary fascicled or 

 corymbose, rarely terminal, white or yellowish. Calyx-tuhe various, 

 limb often tubular ; lobes Tariable. Corolla funnel- salver- or bell- 

 shaped, tube long or short, throat glabrous or hairy ; lobes 5, twisted 

 in bud. Stamens 5 ; anthers subsessile, narrow. JDish annular or 

 cushion-shaped. Ovary 2-rarely 3-4'celled, style short or slender, 

 stigma usually fusiform, sunk in placentas attached to the septum. 

 Berries globose, ellipsoid or ovoid, 2 -celled. Seeds few or many, 

 often immersed in pulp, angled, testa thin, albumen horny, cotyle- 

 dons orbicular. — Species about 100, all tropical. 



Spines at the ends of the branchlets, corolla 



glabrous outside 1. E. uliginosa. 



Spines axillary, corolla hairy outside. 



Flowers solitary ; berry 1| in. long, yellow , 2. R. dumetorum. 



Flowers in fascicles ; berries small, purple . 3. B. fasdculata. 



1. R. uUginosa, DC. Prod, iv, 3S6 ; W. ^ A. Prod. 398 ; Royle 111. 238 ; 

 Brand. For. FL 273 ; F. B. I. iii, 110; Watt E.D.; Kanjilal For. Fl. 8ch. 

 Circ. 204 ; Gamble Man. Ind. Timh. 412 ; Coolie Fl. Bomb, i, 599. Pgso- 

 queria uliginosa, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 712. — Vern. Pinddlu, pindar, ^anddra 

 •(Sahara::pnr), pandr and pwdr (Oudh), mainphal (Garhwal). 



A small rigid tree. Branchlets 4-angled, bearing at their extremities 

 1-4 decussate spines about 4 in. long. Leaves crowded towards the 

 euds of the branchlets, 2-8 in. long, obovate or oblong, obtuse, narrowed 

 below into the short slender petiole, pale when dry, shining above, 

 pubescent on the nerves beneath ; stipules triangular. Flowers solitary 

 at the ends of suppressed branches, l|-2 in. across, either large and 

 sessile, or small and peduncled, white, fragrant. Calyx-tube 1^ in. long, 

 terete ; lobes rounded. Corolla glabrous externally, that of the sessile 

 flovyers with a ring of hairs inside at the mouth of the tube. Stigma 

 fusiform, 2- lobed in the sessile flowers, entire in the peduncled. Fruit 

 about 2 in. long, ovoid, smooth, yellow. Seeds compressed, smooth, 

 ^closely packed in pulp. 



