JDehregcoMa.'] 



81. URTICACEJJ. 



335 



ascending to 7000 ft. in the Nilghiris. Konkan and North Kinara, 

 common in evergreen forests. Fl. Nov.-Dec. Fr. Dec. -Feb. A small 

 tree. Easily recognised by the lanceolate leaves rugose above and ashy- 

 white tomentose beueatb and the small, yellow, raspberry-like fruit. 



Order 82. CASUARINE^. 



Leafless trees or shrubs^ branchlets cylindric, grooved and jointed, 

 internodes with a ring of small scales (leaves). Flowers unisexual, 

 males in terminal spikes; female in ovoid heads, bracteate and 

 2-bracteolate. Male fl. Sepals 1-2, circumciss at the base. Stamen 



1, inflexed in bud. Female fl. Ovary minute, 1-eelled; style 2-fid, 

 arms filiform, stigmatose to the base, ovules 2, collateral. Fruit a 

 small cone^ formed of the hardened bracts and bracteoles, enclosing 

 the winged akenes, 



CASITARINA, Forst. 

 Characters of the order. 



0. equisetifoUa, Forst. Char. Gen. 103. f. 53; Fl. Br. I. 5. 598; Brandis 

 For. Fl. 453 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 226. Beefwood of Australia. Sura M. 



East side of the Bay of Bengal from Chittagong southwards, 

 cultivated elsewhere. Cultivated throughout the presidency. There are 

 large plantations of this tree in North K^nara near the sea-coast. Fl. 

 Sept. -Oct. Fruit ripe June. Flowers dioicous. A large^ evergreen tree. 

 Bark scaly, dark coloured. Wood brown, very hard, cracks and splits. 

 Pores moderate-sized in radial and oblique lines. Medullary rays very 

 fine, uniform. Numerous wavy concentric lines of soft tissue, containing 

 small pores. Used nearly exclusively for fuel. 



Order 83. SALICINE^. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, stipulate. Flowers dioicous, in 

 lateral catkins, similar in both sexes, scales spirally arranged, each 

 bearing 1 flower in its axil. Perianth 0. Disk cup-shaped or 

 irregularly formed. Stamens 2 or more, filaments free or connate. 

 Ovary 1-celled, style short or 0, ovules few or many on 2-4 placentas, 

 erect, anatropous. Capsule 2-4-valved. Seeds few or many, each 

 with a pencil of long silky hairs, growing from the funicle, albumen 

 ; cotyledons plano-convex, radicle short, inferior. 



Leaves stort-petiolate. Disk of 1-2, separate glands. Capsule 2-valved. 1. Salix. 

 Leaves long-petiolate. Disk cupular or annular. Capsule 2-4-valved ... 2, Fojpulus. 



1. SALIX, L. 



Characters as above. Leaves short petioled. Stamens generally 



2, long exserted. Disk of 1-2, separate glands. Capsule 2-valved, 

 the valves usually rolhng back, placentas near the base of the valves. 



Capsule glabrous ... 1. S. tetrasperma. 



Capsule densely woolly 2. S. ichnostachya. 



