188 



50. KUBIACEiE. 



[Mussoenda, 



A handsome ornamental shrub. "Wood grey, soft, smooth. Annual 

 rings distinct. Pores small, a line of them to mark the annual ring, 

 otherwise equally distributed. Medullary rays fine or very fine, numerous. 

 Weighs 36 lbs. to the cub. ft. 



8. WEBERA, Schreb. 



Trees or shrttSs. Leaves entire, glabrous ; stipules deciduous. 

 Flowers in terminal corymbose cymes. Calyx-tube ovoid or turbinate, 

 limb short, 4-5 partite. Corolla-tube cylindrical, lobes 5, spreading^ 

 or reflexed, imbricate and usually twisted in bud. Ovary 2 -celled ; 

 style stout, stigma long and spindle-shaped, grooved, usually far 

 exserted ; ovules 2 or more in each cell on fleshy, peltate placentas. 

 Berry globose, 2-celled, cells 1-many-seeded. Seeds plano-convex or 

 cupped, rarely angled ; albumen fleshy or horny ; embryo small ; coty- 

 ledons leafy, radicle pointing variously. 



W. eorymbosa, Willd. ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. 1. 696 ; FI. Br. 1. 3. 102. W. 



asiatica, Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 133 ; Gamble. Ind. Timbers, 226. Stylo coryne 

 Wehera, A. Rich., Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 119. Kdre, M. 



Western peninsula from the Konkan southwards and Ceylon. South 

 Konkan and North Kanara, in moist forests on the ghats, common in 

 the evergreen forests near the Ainshi ghdt of North Kanara. Fl. at 

 different times from December till July. Fr. R. S. A large shrub or 

 small tree. Bark dark-coloured, smooth. Wood yellowish white, hard,, 

 close-grained. Pores small^ numerous. Med. rays short, fine and very 

 fine. Weighs 57 lbs. to the cub. ft. 



9. RANDIA, L. 



Small trees or shrubs, usually spinous. Leaves opposite, entire ; 

 stipules short, free or connate. Flowers large or small, in axillary 

 cymes or clusters, white or yellowish. Calyx-tube various. Corolla 

 trom salver-shaped to nearly rotate, limb 5-lobed, lobes twisted in bud. 

 Stamens 5, anthers subsessile. Disk annular or cushion-shaped. 

 Ovary 2-celled, stigma fusiform, entire or 2-fid ; ovules many, attached 

 to a fleshy, peltate placenta. Berry globose, 2-celled, many-seeded, 

 usually crowned by the calyx-limb. Seeds angled, immersed in pulp^ 

 testa thin, albumen horny ; cotyledons orbicular. 



Spinous shrubs or trees. 



Flowers large, white, solitary. Berry 

 smooth, yellow, 2 in, long. Spines 

 short, decussate, terminal ... \. R,uliginosa, 



Flowers small, white, yellow. Fruit 1 



in. long. Spines long, axillary ... 2. M. dumenforum. 

 Climbing unarmed shrubs. Berry small ... 3, R. rugulosa. 



1. R. uliginosa, DC. Prod. lY. 386 ; Fl. Br. I. 3. 110 ; Brandis For. 

 Fl. 273; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 119; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 132. Fandri, 

 banhugri, haye, K, ; KantJia gating, Vern. ; Kaurio, Panch Mahals ; Fin- 



