Ochrocarpus.'] 



12. aUTTTPER^B. 



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Konkan and K^nara Ghats, ascending to 2000 feet in evergreen 

 forests ; sometimes cultivated. There is a grove of these trees near Kumpta 

 on the coast of N. Kanara on low-level laterite, probably the remains of 

 an evergreen forest. Fl. Feb.-March. Fr. R. S. 



Trees with a cylindrical trunk, 40-60 ft. high and 6 ft. in circum- 

 ference, are met with in N. Kanara. Bark scaly, scales thick, often 

 covered with small round black patches of lenticular-like markings; 

 inner bark thick, red, with numerous small yellow gamboge glands. 



Wood moderately hard, reddish grey, close-grained, smooth. Pores 

 moderate-sized, equally distributed. Medullary rays numerous, fine. 

 Weighs about 60 lbs. to the cubic foot. Annual rings distinct. The dried 

 flower buds (Tambra Nagkesar) are used for dyeing silk ; they are also 

 used medicinally. 



3. CALOPHYLLUM, Linn. 



Evergreen trees. Leaves opposite, shining, coriaceous, with numer- 

 ous parallel veins at right angles to the midrib. Flowers polygamoiis, 

 in axillary or terminal panicles. Sepals and petals 4-12, imbricate 

 in 2-3 series. Stamens numerous, filaments filiform, free or connate 

 below ; anthers erect, 2-celled. Ovary 1- celled ; style slender ; stigma 

 peltate ; ovule solitary^ erect. Fruit an indehiscentj crust aceous drupe % 

 seed erect. 



Petals 4. 



A medinm -sized, dark scaly-barked, quite 



glabrous tree. Leaves broad elliptic. 



Fruit 1 in. in diam., globose ... ... 1. C, inopliyllumt. 



A very large tree ; young parts rusty-tomen.- 



tose. Bark yellowish, deeply fissured. 



Leaves narrow elliptic. Fruit ovoid, 1 



in. locg. ... ... 2. C, tomentosim^ 



Petals 3-0. 



A moderate or large tree with characteristic 

 yellow bark. Leaves obovate. Fruit 



ovoid, small, '25 in. long ... ... 3. C. Wightianum, 



1. C. inophyllum. Linn. Fl. Br. 1, 1. 273 ; Bedd. Fl. Syl. 22; Dalz. 

 & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 31. Grab. Cat. Bo. PI. 26. The Alexandrian Laurel. 

 TTndi, surangi^ M. j Vuma, hona^ K. ; Udi^ Cutch. 



Indigenous throughout the Peninsula, Orissa, Ceylon, Burma and 

 the Andamans, particularly near the sea-coast ; also cultivated as an orna- 

 mental tree and for its valuable fruit. 



A short-stemmed tree with a thick cylindrical trunk. Bark dark 

 coloured, scaly, fissured. Wood reddish-brown, moderately hard and close 

 grained. Pores large and medium sized, arranged in groups and lines 

 often filled with a gum-like material. Medullary rays very fine and 

 numerous and crossed horizontally by wavy, continuous or broken narrow 

 lines of deep red tissue. A cross section has broad lustrous patches. 

 Average weight 42 lbs. to the cubic foot. 



