II('j)l{/l)leunm.] 



47. ARALlACE.l-;. 



181 



Throughout tropical and sub-tropical India from the N. W. Himalayas 

 to the South D ocean. Common in the evergreen forests of the Konkan 

 and North Kanara. Usually climbing scandent. Fl. March-June. Fr. 

 June-Aiig. 



Wood light brown, smooth, soft. Annual rings indistinct. Pores small, 

 single or in short radial lines. Medullary rays fine to moderately broad, 

 sometimes very long and somewhat far apart. Weighs 40 ]bs. to the 

 cub. ft. 



2. H. Wallichianum, C. B. Clarke. FL Br. I. 2. 730 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 

 122. Hedera WalUcJiiana, Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 108. 



Konkan ghats, pretty common, Dalz. The above species is given on 

 the authority of Dalzell. I have not yet met with it in the Bombay- 

 presidency. 



Order 48. CORNACE^. ^ ' 



Shrubs or trees. Leaves opposite or alternate, often unequal at 

 the base ; stipules 0. Flowers regular, hermaphrodite or unisexual, 

 in axillary or terminal cymes, panicles or heads. Calyx-tube 

 adnate to ovary j limb truncate or 4-5-toothed, persistent. Petals 

 or 4-5. Stamens inserted with the petals and equal to them in 

 number. Ovary inferior, 1-4-celled ; crowned by the disk ; style 

 single, stigma capitate or branched; ovule solitary, pendulous. 

 Fruit usually succulent, 1-4-celled, less often with 2 pyrenes. Seed 

 obloDg, pendulous, albumen copious, fleshy. 



Petals long, narrow. Stamens 20-30 1., Alangium. 



Petals short. Stamens 5-4 ... ... ... 2. Mastixia. 



1. ALANGIUM, Lamk. 



Shrubs or small trees, armed or 0. Leaves alternate, 3-nerved 

 at the base, persistent. Flowers hermaphrodite, in axillary 

 fascicles or condensed cymes, jointed on the pedicel. Calyx-tube 

 adnate to the ovary, limb 5-10 toothed or truncate. Petals 5-10, 

 linear-oblong, valvate, then reflexed. Stamens twice as many as 

 petals or more ; hairy at base. Ovary inferior, 1-eelled, surmounted 

 by a disk ; style long ; stigma large, capitate ; ovule pendulous. 

 Fruit a berry, crowned by the enlarged calyx-limb. Seed oblong, 

 albumen ruminate ; cotyledons leafy, crumpled. 



A. Lamarkii, Thw- Enum. 1.33. Fl. Br. I. 2. 741 ; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 Bom. FL 109 ; Brandis For. Fl. 250 ; Bedd. FL Sylv. 215. Ankul, M. ; 

 Lucki, ansrolif K. 



Throughout India from the W. Himalaya to Ceylon. Throughout 

 the presidency in dry places, often along the banks of n^ilas in North 

 Kanara. Fl. Feb.-Apl. Fr. May- Aug. ; sometimes at other seasons. 

 Erect or scandent, spinous. A large shrub or small tree up to 2 ft. in diam. 

 with long scandent branches. Bark smooth, grey, thin. Heartwood 

 brown, hard, tough, close-grained. A valuable fuel. Used for pestles to 

 crush oil-seeds. Fruit astringent, acid. 



