Homalium,] 



44. SAMYDACEiE. 



179 



Malabar up to 4000 ft., Ceylon, moister parts up to 3000 ft. In the 

 evergreen forests of the northern ghdts of North Kanara from Diggi to 

 Ainshi. Fl. April-May. Vv. R. S. A moderate sized tree, 2 ft. 6 in. in 

 "diameter and GO ft. high. Bark smooth, grey, lenticellate, mealy ; inner 

 bark white, *75 in. thick, strips oif easily from the wood. Wood strong 

 and valuable for building purposes. Bedd. 



Order 45, DATISCACE^. 



Trees or herbs. Leaves simple or pinnate. Flowers small, dioe- 

 cious, clustered, racemed or panicled. Male calyx-tube short, 

 teeth 3-9 ; petals ; stamens 4-26. Female calyx-tube adnate to 

 the ovary, lobes 3-8 ; petals ; ovary 1-celled, open or closed at the 

 vertex; styles lateral; placentas parietal; ovules many. Capsule 

 coriaceous or membranous, opening at the vertex between the 

 styles. Seeds many, small, albuminous, embryo straight ; radicle 

 next the kilum. 



TETKAMELES, E. Br. 



Large trees. Leaves pnbescent, serrate. Flowers dicecious. 

 Petals 0. Males : calyx-tube short; lobes 4, unequal or equal. Sta- 

 mens 4, round a depressed disk ; filaments elongate. Ovary radimen- 

 tary, 4'angled or 0. Female : calyx-tube almost 4- angled ; lobes 4, 

 short. Staminodes 0. Ovary open at apex ; ovules inserted in 3-4 

 rows on the parietal placentas ; styles 4, short. Capsule membranous, 

 open at the summit and crowned by the four styles. Seeds very 

 many, flattened, ellipsoid, testa very lax and extending beyond the 

 nucleus as a loose reticulated membrane. 



T. nudiflora, Br. in Bennu PL Jav. Ear, 79. t. 17 ; Fl. Br. T. 2. f>57 

 Bedd. FL Sylv. t. 212 ; Brandis For. FL 245. Jermala, hondale, K. ; llgaci, 

 kajpsin, bondsa, M. 



Sikkim, Western ghats from Bombay to Ceylon, Burma and Ten- 

 asserim. Common in the evergreen forests of the gh^ts of ISTorth Kanara 

 and the Konkan. An immense, deciduous tree with great wall-like 

 buttresses at the base, overtopping the regular evergreen canopy. 

 FL Feb.-Mch. Fr, April-May. Bark shining, smooth, lenticellate. Wood 

 white, soft. Pores large, single or divided, equally distributed. Med. rays 

 fine to moderately broad. Weighs 27 lbs. to the cub. ft. "May be 

 found suitable for tea boxes." Gamble. 



Order 46. CACTEJEJ. 



Herbs, shrubs or trees. Leaves reduced to tufts of spines, prickles 

 or small tubercles. Flowers sessile, solitary, hermaphrodite, regular. 

 Calyx-tube adnate to ovary, lobes 3 to many, small, imbricate. Petals 

 many, imbricate. Stamens many, free or adnate to the base oi the 

 petals. Ovary 2-celled ; ovules many on parietal placentas, horizoufcaU 

 Berry 1-celled, placentas pulpy. Seeds numerous. 



