Corclia] LXXVI. BOEAG-INACEiB 479 



yellowish-brown, pink or nearly black, shining, but minutely rugose, endo- 

 carp rugose, very hard, in a sweetish viscid, almost transparent pulp. 



Subliimalayan tract and outer ranges, ascending to 5,000 ft. Punjab Salt range. 

 Eajpixtana. Central India and Centi*. Prov. Western Peninsula. Iihasi lillls. 

 Burma. Largely cultivated in gardens and avenues. PL March-May. Fr. and 

 kernel eaten, the unripe fr. as a vegetable and pickled. — Ceylon chiefly in the dry 

 region. Malay Penins. and Arehip. China. Formosa. Cultivated and possibly indi- 

 genous in "Western Asia. 2. A species mentioned by Kurz F. Fl. ii. 208 (Mmaikya, 

 Burm.). Pegu. A snaall tree, 1. elliptic, acuminate, a few large teeth in the upper 

 half, blade 5-10, pet. 1-2J in. long, short hairs on the underside, chiefly along nerves, 

 upperside rough with minute cystolith cells, fl. unknown. L. greatly prized as cover- 

 ing leaf of the Burmese cheroots. 



3. C. WaUicHii, G. Don ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 245 ; Brandis F. FL 337 ; Talbot List 

 ed. ii. 243; probably C. ohliqtia of Wight's Ic. t. 1378. — Syn. C. ohlicjua, Wiild., 

 var. WalUchii, C. B. Clarke in. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 137 ; Sepis-tan, Fistan. Guz. 

 Western Peninsula in deciduous forest. A middle-sized tree, 1. entire or nearly so, 

 densely and softly tomentose beneath with stellate hairs, otherwise similar to 1, of 

 which it may possibly be a tomentose variety. 4. C. Lowriana, sp. nova. Merwara 

 (Oundi) (D. B. Dec. 1878; A. F. Lowrie Oct. 1884; Duthie Ko. 4754. Jan. 1886), A 

 shrub or small tree, heart wood brown, beautifully mottled on a radial section, foliage 

 bright green. Wholly glabrous, excepting the minutely hairy inflorescence, 1. elliptic 

 or elliptic-lanceolate, acute at both ends, base more or less unequal sided, deeply den- 

 tate in the upper half, blade 2-3, pet. J in. long, sec. n. faint, 4-6 pair, the lowest pair 

 from near the base. Fl. (nearly throughout the year) in small compact pedunculate 

 cymes from the axils of the uppermost I, calyx-tube in fl. more cylindrical than of 

 Myxa. Very similar to C. crenaia, Delile, cultivated in Egypt. 



(&) Cystolith cells conspicuous as raised, generally white disks on upper 

 surface of 1.^ 



a. Calyx not distinctly ribbed. 



5. C. monoica, Roxb. Cor. PL t. 58. — Syn. C. polygama, Poxb. Western Peninsula, 

 from the Centr. Prov. southwax'ds. L. ovate or elliptic with a cuneate base, slightly 

 pubescent beneath, rough above with numerous raised disks, blade 1-3, pet. -^-1 in. 

 Cymes small, calyx obconical, | in. long, ^ and fertile fl. on separate braneiies. 6. C. 

 grandis, Poxb. Assam. Chittagong. Burma (Kurz). L. ovate, underside generally 

 glabrous with scanty hairs along nerves, upperside rough with numerous white raised 

 disks, blade 5-8, pet. 1-2 J in. Fl. in compact cymes, arranged in large pedunculate 

 panicles. 



7. C. fragrantissima, Kurz. Kalamet, Taung halamet^ Burm. ; Kawoh, Kar. Pegu 

 and Martaban. Paunglin forests (D. B. Jan. 1862). Hills east of Taungoo (D. B. 

 May 1859). Heartwood brown, beautifully mottled, in structure resembling C. 

 MacJeodii, but fragrant. L. ovate, upperside when young with fugacious hairs, when 

 mature rough with innumerable white disks, underside clothed with a soft dense but 

 fugacious tomentum of stellate hairs, blade 5-10, pet. 1-2 in. long. Fl. almost sessile 

 in unilateral racemes, arranged in clichotomous panicles. 8. A shrub, Khasi hills 

 (C. B. Clarke, 8088, 43264a), Chittagong (0. B. Clarke, 19760), Western Penins. (Herb. 

 Pottler), China (Henry, 414), similar to 7, but 1. broadly elliptic, fl. pedicellate, and 

 racemes not marked^ unilateral. 



^. Calyx distinctly ribbed and furrowed. 



9. C . Macleodii, Hook, f . & Thorns. ; Brandis F. M. t. 41. Vern. Dhaiman^ 

 DJiagan, Dengan^ Hind. ; Dhaiican^ Mar. ; Godela^ Ajmere ; Pedda Battava^ 

 Tel. 



A middle-sized tree, bands of wood parenchyma narrow, heartwood reddish- 

 brown, beautifully mottled. Branchlets, underside of 1., inflorescence and 

 calyz clothed with dense grey or tawny tomentum of stellate hairs, L. some- 

 times subopposite, cordate, firm and hard when full grown, rough with raised 

 groups of cystolith cells, blade 5-7, pet. 2-3 in. long, the basal as well as 

 secondary and transverse tertiary nerves prominent on the underside of mature L 



1 I have adopted this as a distinguishing character of species 5-11 with some hesita- 

 tion, for it is not impossible that the appearance of the cystolith cells on the upper 

 surface of leaves may vary. The species of this difficult but important genus require 

 further study in the forest. 



