14. DIPTEEOCAEPEiE, 



[Ancistrocladus. 



panicles. Catyx-t>ube short ; lobes unequally enlarged. Stamens 5-10. 

 Ovary 1-celled, inferior ; styles 8, articulated to a rounded disk ; ovule 

 solitary. Fruit crowned with the accrescent spathulate^ calyx wings. 

 Seed sub-globose j albumen copious, fleshy^ ruminated ; embryo 

 shorty straight ; cotyledons short, divergent. 



A. Heyneanus, Wall. Cat. 7262 ; Fl. Br. I. 1. 229 ; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 Bomb. FL 34. Kardor, hurdul, M. 



Western Peninsula from the Konkan to Travancore. On the ghats of 

 Korth K^nara, common in evergreen forests. Fl. Marchc Fr, April. 



3. SHOREA, Roxb. 

 Resinous trees. Leaves entire^ or sub-repand^, feather-veined. 

 Flowers bracteate^ in lax eymose panicles; bracts persistent^ caducous 

 or 0. Calyx-tube short, adnate to the torus, segments ovate or lance- 

 olate, imbricate, 3 or more^ rarely all enlarged in fruit. Petals 5, 

 twisted, imbricate. Stamens 15-20-100; anthers ovate or oblong, 

 rarely linear ; connective subulate-cuspidate ; valves equal or the 

 exterior slightly larger, obtuse, rarely cuspidate. Ovary 3. celled ; 

 cells 2-ovuled ; style subulate, entire or 3 lobed at the apex. Fruit 

 coriaceous, indehiscent, 1- set ded, enclosed in the winged, accrescent 

 calyx; wings 10-veined, linear. Cotyledons fleshy, unequal, usually 

 enclosing the superior radicle. 



S. Talura, Roxb. Fl. Ind. IT. 618; Fl. Br. I. 1. 304; S.laceifem, 

 Heyne; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 26. Jhcdl mciraf K. ; Jhallandct, Mysore. 



Western Peninsula ; forests of Mysore and Malabar. In the forests of 

 the Sirsy talnka of North Kanara near the Mysore frontier, pretty common. 

 Bark grey with longitudinal fissures. Wood hard, dark-yellowish, even- 

 grained. Pores small, often in groups, enclosed in white tissue. Medullary 

 rays moderately broad and fine, numerous, wavy, joined by transverse 

 narrow bars of white tissae. Annual riogs indistinct. Weighs 56 lbs. to 

 the cubic foot. Used extensively for building purposes in North Kanara. 

 As far as I can ascertain lac is not found on this tree in North Kanara. 

 Fl. Jan. Fr. April. 



4. HOPE A, Roxb. 



Glabrous or tomentose, resinous trees. Leaves coriaceous, entire, 

 firm ; stipules small, deciduous. Flowers ebracteate, in lax panicles of 

 unilateral racemes. Calyx-tube very short, segments obtuse, imbri- 

 cate, 2, enlarging in fruit, wing-like and erect. Petals connate, 

 deciduous. Stamens 15, rarely 10; anthers ovate; connective subu- 

 late-cuspidate ; cells obtuse, equal-valved. Ovary 3-celled, cells 2- 

 ovuled; style short, terete or subulate. Nut 1-seeded, 2- winged ; 

 seed ovoid ; cotyledons fleshy, unequal. This genus is very closely allied 

 to Shorea. 



H. Wightiana, Wall. Cat. 6295 ; Fl. Br. 1. 1. 309; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 



tr 96. Haiga, hiral bogi, hurihouga^ K.; Kavsip kalhoni M. 



