42S BUBIACE^. [Htftiantheea. 



acuminate, bright green above, paler beneath, glabrous or pubescent ; 

 main lateral nerves about 12 pair, glandular-hairy in the axils beneath ; 

 stipules connate, large, tumid. Flovmrs large, solitary or in pairs, 

 . subsessile, white turning to yellow, fragrant. Calyx |-1 jn. long, 

 hairy; limb campaUulate ; lobes 5-9, subulate-lanceolate, unequal, 

 recurved, pubescent. Corolla-tube 2-3 in. long, pubescent outside; 

 limb 2-4^ in. across ; lobes .5-7, obliquely obovate or oblong. Fruit 

 1-2 in. in diam., globose, smooth, speckled, beaked by the calyx-limb; 

 endocarp polished inside, placentas 4-5. Seeds many, immersed in a 

 purplish-coloured pulp. 



■Bundelkhand on dry hills (Dnthie). Flowers in &.pril and May. 



DisTRTB. Behar, Oent. Prov., Bombay, and S. India. The wood is 



suitable for turnery, and has been recommended as a substitute for 



box-wood. 



3. G. turgida, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 15 ; Fl. Ind. i, 711 ; Brand- For. 

 Fl. 207; Clarhe in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii, 310 ; F. B. I. Hi, US; Kanjildl 

 For. PI. 8ch. Circ.205; Gamble ^lan.Ind. Timb. 416.— Yevn. Thanella. 



A small deciduous tree. Branches rigid, stout, armed with strong axil- 

 lary straight often leaf -bearing spines. Barh smooth, yellowish. 

 Leaves variable, 1-4 in. long, elliptic obovate or orbicular, obtuse or 

 acute, coriaceous, shining above, glabrous pubescent or tomentose 

 beneath, narrowed into a short petiole, pale when dry. Flowers 

 dimorphic, the males fascicled, the females solitary. Calyx of male 



.flowers ^ in. long, its mouth wide and truncate ; of the fern, flowers 

 ^f in. long, the limb shortly campanulate ,• teeth oblong or sub- 

 spathulate, f oliaceous . Corolla salver-shaped, white, fragrant ; |-| 

 in. long, sub-cylindric "; limb 1 in. across. Fruit 1-3 in. in diam., 

 ovoid or globose, not beaked, smooth ; pericarp thick, endocarp woody, 

 shining inside ; placentas 5-6. 



Dehra Dun and Saharanpur Siwalikp, N. Oudh. Flowers during March 

 and April. Dtstrib. Base of Himalaya from Garhwal to Bhotan, Behar, 

 Chota Nagpur Bombay, Cent, and S. India, also in Burma. The fruit 

 is sometimes eaten, and both it and the root are used medicinally. 



Var. montana, i^. JB. I. Hi, 118 ; Watt E. D.; Coohe Fl. Bomb, i, 601. 

 G. montana, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i, 709 ; W. 8^ A. Prod. 396. Leaves subor- 

 bicular, densely tomentose beneath. This variety occurs along with 

 the type, and in many localities ia even more abundant. 



15. HYPTIANTHERA, W. & A. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iii, 121. 



A glabrous shrub, branches terete. Leaves' shortly petioled ; 

 -stipules triangular, persistent. Flowers small, white, sessile in axil- 

 lary fascicles, bracteolate. Calyx-tube turbinate; lobes 5, acute, 

 persistent. Co«-olla-tube short, hairy within ; lobes 4-5, spreading, 

 twisted in bud. Anthers 4-5, sessile, oblong, obtuse, pubescent at 



