356 



LIX. COENACE^ 



[Cormcs 



Fig. 148.- 



-Cornii& obloiiga, Wall. 



J-J in. long, sec. n. 3-5 

 pair, impressed albove. 

 Calyx and petals very 

 slightly liairy. Drupe 

 ovoid, I in. long. 3. C. 

 sanguinea, Linn. On a 

 liigh mountain range 

 south of the Kashmir 

 valley at 7,000 ft., fonnd 

 once otlIj by Dr. J. L. 

 Stewart. Europe and Si- 

 beria. L. ellij)tic. Sec. 

 n. 8-4 pair, the lowest 

 |)air basal, peduncles 

 longer than cymes. 



B. Fl. in globose 

 bracteate heads. 



4 C. capitata , 



Wall. PL As. Ear. t. 



214; Collett Simla M. 



219, %. 67. Vern. 



Thama^ Tharmal^ Pb., 



Bamora, Bamaur^ 



i. N.-W. P.; Tumbuk] 



Lepcba. 



A small deciduous tree, brauclilets and 1. rough with short stiff appressed 



hairs. L. coriaceous, pale beneath, approximate at the ends of branchlets, 



blade 2-4, narrowed into petiole \ in. long. PI. closely packed in terminal 



heads with a conspicuous involucre" of 4 large yellow petaloid bracts. Drupes 



uniting into a fleshy strawbeiTy-like head, 1 in. diam., each drupe with a hard 



1-seeded stone. 



Outer Himalaya from Kulu to Bhutan. Khasi andNaga hills. PL April-Oct. 



4. MASTIXIA, Blume ; PL Brit. Ind. ii. 745. 



^ Trees, resin-canals in the pith. L. alternate or opposite, entire. PL small, 

 bisexual, 4-5-merous, 2-bracteolate, in terminal many-fid. panicles. Calyx- 

 tube^ as well as the valvate petals pubescent; disk large, fleshy. Ovary 

 inferior, 1-celled, ovule 1, pendulous. Drupe with a hard fleshy pericarp and a 

 bony endocarp, which is deeply intruded down one side, dividing the seed into 

 2 lobes, embryo in copious fleshy albumen, radicle long. Species 18, India and 

 Malaya. 



V -f * ^^^o^ea, C. B. Clarke ; Bedd. PL Sylv. t. 216.—Syn. Byrsinopetalum arhoreum, 

 Wight Ic.t, 956. Oaohar. Evergreen forests of the Western ghats and adjoining hill 

 ranges 2-7^000 ft., from the Konkan southwards. Ceylon, A very large evergreen tree, 

 L coriaceous, Wade 2-9, petiole 4~2 in. long. FL green, disk yellow, the lowest branches 

 ot panicle often in the axils of small 1. or large bracts, fr. ellipsoid 1^ in. long, purplish- 

 green. Possibly identical with M, pentandra, Blume, of Java. If proved, this name 

 will take precedence. No specific difference between M, arhorea and pentandra of FL 

 ^rit. India. 2. M. euonymoides, Prain in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, vol. 67. 295. Kachin 

 mils. Xj, opposite, blade 4, pet. f in. long, fr. almost cylindrical, § in. long. Perhaps 

 the same as a very large tree 200 ft. high, bole 100 ft. to iirst branch found by "Watt at 

 Kupra, Manipur, 6,000 ft. 



Aucuba Mmalaica, Hook f . Sikkim 5-9,000 ft. Bhutan. Manipur 8,000 ft. A large 

 snrub or small tree, evergreen, young shoots clothed with long silky hairs. L. opposite, 

 lanceolate, denticulate or serrate, blade 3-8, pet. 1 in. long. FL dioecious, tetramerous, 

 luna-purple, m small axillary and terminal, often fasciculate hairy panicles. Calyx- 

 tuoe nairy, petals lanceolate, valvate, ^ : stamens 4, around a (quadrangular fleshy disk. 

 ¥ : ovary 1-celJed. Berry scarlet or orange, 4 in long. This may possibly be only a 

 lorm ot the Japanese Ao^ponica, Tlumb., cultivated in all temperate countries, often 

 with variegated leaves. 



