Vangiceria.'] 



50. IlUBTA.fE.>:, 



1^3 



A small or moderate sized tree. Bark dark coloured, nearly smooth or 

 with shallow fissures ; inner bark with 5 or 6 alternate layers of white 

 and red tissue. 



Wood pinkish brown or white, close-grained, moderately hard and 

 heayy. Annual rings distinct. Pores small, numerous. Medullary rays 

 numerous, fine and very fine. Weighs 55 lbs. to the cub. ft. Fruit 

 globose, smooth, 1-2 in. in diameter, on slender peduncles, turns yellow 

 when ripe, edible, but not palatable. 



14. IXORA, L, 



Shrubs or small trees. Leaves with interpetiolar stipules. Flowers 

 often showy^ in axillary and terminal corymbose cymes. Calyx 4-5- 

 tootbed or lobed. Corolla-tube long slender, lobes 4, spreading. 

 Ovary 2-celled ; style filiform, exserted ; stigma slender, fusiform, or 

 2-lobed ; 1 ovule in each cell, peltately attached to the septum. Fruit 

 a small berry or drupe with 2, plano-convex, ventrally concave 

 ^coriaceous pyxenes. Seeds peltate^ testa membranous, albumen some- 

 times horny. 



Jjeaves green when dry. Flowers white or pink. Fruit red 

 or dark-coloured. 

 Shrubs. 



Calyx-teeth linear, much longer than the ovary. 

 Corolla-tube very slender. Fruit glabrous j 

 calyx-teeth persistent ... ... ... 1, I, lanceolaricu 



■Calyx-teeth longer and broader than the ovary. 



Fruit red, hairy, striate ... ... .^2. I. polyantha* 



Calyx-teeth shorter than the ovary. Fruit smooth, 



Idack ... .. ... ... 3. I. elongata^ 



"Trees with flowers in brachiate cymes. 



Cyme branches long. Flow.er-buds globose ; 'Corolla- 

 tube I in. ... ... ... 4. 2. hrachiata. 



Cyme branches short. Flower-buds ovoid 4 corolla- 

 tube ^-i in. ... ... ^. 1. parvijlora. 



Shrub with scarlet flowers in sessile corymbiform 



cymes. Fruit red .. ... 6. I. coccinea. . 



lieaves black when dry. Flowers white. Fruit black. 



bhrub with flowers in broad sessile or peduncled 

 brachiate cymes ... ... 7. I- nigricans, 



1. lanceolaria, Colebr. in Roxb. Fl. Ind. I. 387 ; Fl. Br. I. 3. 138. 



Western Peninsula from Belgaum southwards. Common in the ever- 

 green forests of North Kanara, particularly on the southern ghats. Fl. R. 

 and C S. Fr. Aug. A small shrub. 



2. I. polyantha, Wgt, Ic. t. 1066 ; FL Br. L3. 140 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv, 

 134-7. 



Western Peninsula from the Konkan to Cochin. Common on the 

 southern gh^ts of North Kdnara, in evergreen forests. Fruit J in. ovoid, 

 striate, sparsely hairy, crowned with the calyx-lobes 1-2-seeded ; pedi- 

 B 987—25 



