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exserted, didynamous, 1.3-1.5 c.M. and 1.7-2 c.M long, filaments glabrous, 

 anthers,, 0.25-0.30 c.M. long, ovary ovate, glabrous, style glabrous; drupe 



2- 3 cM. long 1.5-2 c,M. in diam. 



Distribution: Ceylon! Deccan Peninsula! Himalaya! Burma! 

 Malayan and Philippines Islands! 



7. Gmelina asiatica L. Spec. Plant. Il (1 753) p. 626 (s.a.) — A large, climbing, 

 or when adult sometimes treelike shrub, 1-10 M. high, usually spinous, espe- 

 cially when young, and on the young shoots; leaves opposite, ovate to 

 obovate, entire or more or less 3-5 lobed, especially in youth and on young 

 watershoots, glabrous or villous on both sides; inflorescences terminal, 

 somewhat pendulous, few- or many-flowered, with leafy, small or very large 

 bracts, cymules very short, 1-5-flowered ; flowers large, pendulous ; calyx 

 small obscurely 4-toothed, 0.3-0.6 by 0.25-0,40 c.M., densely dark-brown 

 hairy, with 2-more discoideal glands outside, glabrous inside ; corolla large, 

 yellow, unequally 4- lobed, Scarcely and appressedly hairy outside, with 

 dense glanduliferous hairs inside, tube for ] j 3 -\' 2 -part cylindrically narrowed 

 towards the base, abruptly and ventricosely widened towards the top, 

 4-9 times as long as the calyx, 2-5 c,M. long, limb 2- lipped, upper lip 

 entire, curved, 0.3-1 by 0.7-1.2 c.M., lower lip 3- lobed, two of which are 

 0.7-1 by 1-1.2 c.M., the mid-lobe largest 1-2 by 1.2-1.7 c.M.; stamens 4, 

 didynamous, included or hardly exserted, the shorter pair 0.5-1.5 c.M,, 

 the longer one 1.5-2.5 c.M., filaments with dense glanduliferous hairs, 

 anthers yellow but very soon dark, two of them less developped than the 

 other ones or some of them sterile; ovary sessiie, glabrous, 4- celled; 

 style slender, hardly exserted, curved towards the top, 2.5-5 c.M. long, 

 stigma unequally 2- cleft; drupe large, ovoid or obovoid yellow, when ripe, 

 glabrous, 1.5-2-5 c.M. in diam. 



Distribution: Brit.-lndia! Burma! Siam! Cochin-China! S.-China! 

 Philippines and Malay-Archipelago! 



Var. v- typîca BAKH., nov. var. — G. asiatica LINN. Spec. Plant II (1753) 

 p. 626;— G. coromandelica BURM. Flor Ind. (1768) p. 132 ;— G. lobata Ge'artn. 

 Fruct. Sem. Plant I (1788) p. 268, tab. 56 fig. 5 ;— G. parvifolia ROXB. 

 Plants Coast Corom. II (1798) p. 32 pi. 162:— G parviflora [ROXB. ex 

 PERS. Syn. Plant. II (1807) p. \A2;—Premna parvifolia ROTH. Nov. Plant 

 spec. (1820 p. 288;— Arbuscula Bismagarica PLUCKN. Phyt. I (1691) 

 tab. 14 fig. 4 (ex Roxb. );—Lycium maderaspatanum PLUCKN. V. (1700) p. 

 234 t. 303 fig. 3 and t. 97 fig. 2 ex Linn. Flor Zeyl. (1748) p. 103 sub Gme- 

 lina and Spec. Plant II (1753) p. 626 sub G. asiatica.;— Dematha zeyla- 

 nensibus HERM. Mus. Zeyl. (1717) p. 3.9.12.21. (ex BURM. and LINN.);— 

 Prunus indica sylvestris, tructu flavo, pyriformi BURM, Thes. Zeyl. (1737) 

 p. 197;— Miche lia spinosa AMMAN Act. Petr. 8. (1739. ?) p. 218 t. 18;-ÜNN Flor. 

 Zeyl. (1748) p. 103 sub Gmelina; Linn. Spec. Plant. II (1753 ) p. 626 sub. Gm. 

 asiatica. — Fructex vel arbuscula, altitudine 1-5 M; ramuli spinosi; folia 

 parva, brevi petiolata ovato-obovata, subrhomboidea integerrima vel sub- 



3- 5-lobata, utrinque glabra vel glabrescentia, nervis secundariis utrinque 

 2-3, 1-5 c.M, longa, 0,5-3.5 c.M. lata; petiolus 0.3-2 c.M. i-nflorescentia 



