50. RUBIACEJE. 



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Sub-Himalayan tract from the Jumna eastwards, Oudla, Bengal, 

 Burma, Central, Southern and Western India. Throughout the presi- 

 dency, often in abandoned rice fields, common in deciduous forests. 

 Fl. May-June. Fr. Dec.-Feb. 



A small deciduous tree. Bark brown, scaly. Wood whitish-grey or 

 light-brown, close-grained, hard, smooth. Pores small, numerous. Med. 

 rays fine and very fine. Weighs about 45 lbs. to the cub. ft. Fniit some- 

 times eaten. 



2. R. dumentorum, Lamk. 111. t. 156, f. 4; Fl. Br. I. 3. 110 ; Dalz. 

 & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 119 ; Brandis For. Fl. 273 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 132 ; 

 B. nutans^ DC. B. longispina, DC. Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 119. Ghela, 

 peralu^ mindhal^ monigeli, M. ; Korigidda, mangari, hat mangri, K. 



Throughout India. Common throughout the presidency in deciduous 

 forests. Fl. Mch.-May. Fr. Nov.-March. A small, deciduous, often 

 gregarious, tree. Bark grey, scaly. Wood brownish, compact, hard, 

 smooth. Annual rings distinct. Pores very small, numerous. Medul- 

 lary rays fine, short, equally distributed. Weighs 54 lbs. to the cub. ft. 

 Used for agricultural implements, fences and fuel. The fruit is used to 

 poison fish, and in native medicine. Seeds *15 in. long, ovoid, flattened; 

 episperm smooth, yellow, hard, bony, transparent. 



3. R. rugulosa, Thw. Enum. 159 ; Fl. Br. I. 3. 113 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 

 133. Far. speciosa, Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 133. Tengar halU^ K. 



Western peninsula on the ghats from the Konkan southwards, Ceylon. 

 On the Konkan and Korth Kanara glidts, in evergreen forests, common 

 in the forests near the Tinai and Gairsoppah ghats. Fl. Jan.-Feb. Fr. 

 Nov.-Dec. 



A lofty, unarmed climber. Stems 4 in. in diameter, with a rough 

 lenticellate bark. Wood grey, soft, light. Pores large and medium, 

 numerous between the broad, numerous medullary rays. Weighs about 

 40 lbs. to the cub. ft. 



10. GARDENIA, L. 



Shrubs or trees, spinous or . Leaves simple, rarely ternately whorled. 

 Flowers often dimorphic, showy. Calyx-limb variously cleft or lobed. 

 Corolla-lobes 5-12, twisted in bud. Stamens as many as corolla-lobes, 

 not exserted, anthers sessile, linear, inserted in the tube. Ovary 1- 

 celled, style stout, stigma clavate, fusiform or 2-cleft ; ovules numerous, 

 2-seriate on 2-6 parietal placentas. Fruit fleshy, or coriaceous, inde- 

 hiscent ; seeds numerous, immersed in the placenta, embryo small in horny 

 albumen. 



Unarmed shrubs or small trees.. Flowers not dimorpliic. ^ 

 Calyx-lobes 5, long-subulate. Placentas 2. 1. G-. lucida. 

 Calyx-lobes 5-6, short, ovate, acute. Pla- 

 centas 4-5 ... ... ... 2i. Q, gummifera. 



Calyx-lobes 5-9, subulate, lanceolate, un- 

 equal. Placentas 4-5 ... ... 3. Q-.latifolia. 



Small spinous tree. Flowers dimorphic. 

 Calyx with 5, short teeth in male flower, in 

 female flower teeth oblong, foliaccous. Pla- 

 centas 5-6 ... ... ... 4. Q.turgida^ 



