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75. LAURlNEiE. 



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On the soTitliern glidts of North Kdnara in evergreen forests, common 

 in the forests near the Falls of Gairsoppah* Fl» Oct.-Nov. Fr. ApL- 

 May» A large tree, 



5. L. zeylanica, C. & Fr. Nees in Amoen. Bot. Bonn, Fasc. 1. 58 ; 

 Brandis For. Fl. eS82 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 223 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv, t. 

 29i. Kanvel, chirchira, M. ; Bili nisatigi, K. 



Bhotan and the Khasia Mts., Chittagong, Pegu and Tenasserim, Western 

 glidts from the Konkan southwards, ascending to 7000 feet in the 

 Nilghiris. Throughout the Konkan and North Kanara moist forests, 

 common. Fl. Oct.-Jany. Fr. Jany.-Feb. A small or moderate-sized tree. 

 Wood reddish-white, heartwood darker, moderately hard and tough. 

 Used for house-building, planks, etc. 



Cassytha flliformis, Linn., a slender twining parasite, is common 

 throughout the presidency, often growing on Ipomoea biloba, near the sea 

 coast. 



Order 76. THYMELACE-^]. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate or opposite, entire. Flowers 

 2-sexual, regalar. Inflorescence various. Perianth tubular or 

 campanulate, 4-5-lobed ; throat with or v\^ithout scales. Stamens 

 usually as many or twice as many as the perianth segments. Disk 

 annular, cupular or of scales. Ovary free, 1-celled (in T/iymelea 

 proper), with a single pendulous ovule ; style simple or 0, stigma 

 capitate. Fruit indehiscent. Seed pendulous or lateral ; albumen 

 fleshy or ; embryo straight, radicle superior. 



LASIOSIPHON, Fresen. 



Small trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite or scattered. Flowers bi- 

 sexual, in dense, bracteate heads. Perianth-tube cylindric, circumciss 

 above the ovary; lobes 5, spreading; scales above the stamens, 5-l0. 

 Stamens 10, upper or all slightly ex sorted. Disk or short, annulate. 

 Ovary sessile, 1-celled ; style filiform, stigma capitate. Fruit small, dry ; 

 pericarp membranous. Albumen scanty or 0. 



L. eriocephalus. Dene, in Jacq. Yoy. Bot. 148; Fl. Br. I. 5. 197; 

 Bedd. Fl. Sylv, 179. ^L, speoiosus, Dene.; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 221* 

 JRami, ramita, M. ; Mukurgal, K. Wooly 'headed Gnidia. 



Western Peninsula on the ghats from the Konkan southwards, 

 Ceylon, ascending to ICO feet. Throughout the Konkan and North 

 Kanara, common on the Supa ghats, in deciduous forests, Fl. Oct.- 

 Feb. Fr. Mch.-Apl. A small tree or large shrub. 



The bark is a powerful vesicant. Both the bark and leaves are acrid 

 and poisonous. A fibre is extracted from the bark. 



