Adina^ 



50. RUBIACE^. 



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A large deciduoua tree. Bark grey, smooth, with great horizontal 

 wrinkles, exfoliating in thick scales ; inner bark mottled red, 1 in. thick. 

 Wood yellow, moderately hard, evengrained and durable. Pores small, 

 very numerous. Medullary rays fine, very numerous, uniform, and cIobb 

 together. Annual rings indistinct. Weighs about 42 lbs. to the cub. 

 ft. Much used for house construction, gun-stocks, canoes, &c. A well 

 known and useful timber. 



3, STEPHEGYNE, Korth. 



Shrubs or trees with pe tided leaves ; stipules large, caducous. 

 Flower heads globose, solitary or paniculate often subumbelled, 

 usually subtended by two large bracts. Flowers surrounded with 

 paleaceous bracteoles. Calyx-tube shorty limb truncate or 5 -toothed. 

 Corolla funnel-shaped^ tube long, throat hairy. Fruit of 2 dehiscent 

 cocci, many-seeded. Seeds small, testa winged^ albumen fleshy. 



S. parvifolia, Korth. in Verh. Gesoh. Nat. Bot. 161 ; Fl. Br. I. 3. 25 ; 

 Brandis For. Fl. 262. Naiiclea parvifolia, Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 34; Dalz. 

 & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 118, Kalamh^ haddam, M,; Kadawar, hanu, yetega, 

 kudwalf K. 



Throughout India and Burma, Ceylon. Throughout the presidency 

 in decidaous forests. Fl. May-July. Fr. Nov.-Dec. A large deciduous 

 tree. Wood light pinkish-brown, moderately hard, close-grained, smooth. 

 Annual rings more or less distinct. Pores small, numerous. Med. rays 

 fine, very numerous, varying in width. Weighs about 45 lbs. to the 

 cub. ft. Used for furniture, agricultural implements, carving, house 

 building purposes, turning, &c. 



4. NAUCLEA,L. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves large^ sessile or petioled ; stipules large, 

 caducous or subpersistent . Flowers in globose, solitary or subpanicled 

 heads, ebracteolate. Calyx-tube turbinate or obconic, lobes 5. Corolla- 

 tube elongate, lobes imbricate. Stamens 5, on throat of corolla. Fruit 

 of 2, dehiscent, many-seeded cocci. Seeds imbricate, testa winged. 



ytigma capitate. Stipules flat, deciduous. 



Heads 1-3. Corolla-lobes spreading, not ridged .. 1. N. purpurea. 



Heads solitary. Corolla-lobes ridged and horned 



near apcK ... ... ... ... 2. N.elliptica. 



Stigma elongate, acute. Stipules subpersistent ... 3. N. missionis, 



1. N. purpurea, Roxb. Fl. Ind, I. 515 ; Fl. Br. I. 3. 26 ; Bedd. FL 

 Sylv. 129. 



Western peninsula from the Konkan to the Circars and southwards. 

 A moderate-sized tree. There seems to be very little difference between 

 this and the next species, N. elliptica, Dalz. Good specimens sent by 

 me of true N. elliptica, Dalz., having been named N. purpurea, Roxb., 

 at Kew. Both iV. purpurea and N. elliptica are quite distinct from 

 N. missionis^ Wall., which has the stigma mitre-shaped and not globose, 

 as is the case in the two former species. 

 B 937—24. 



