N. 0. CORNACEjE. 
637 
Calyx 5-toothed or nearly entire. Petals 5, valvate. Stamens 
5. Ovary 5-celled ; style connate in a short column. Fruit 
•25-'3in. diam., globose, yellow, turning black when fully ripe, 
shining; seeds 3-4 ovoid (Kanjilal.) 
Wood light-grey or yellow, soft and porous. Annual rings 
distinct. Flowers— October, i^pril, February, Jan. -June. 
Uses : — Dry leaves are used to stimulate sores ; and the 
berries to purge (Irvine). 
N. 0. C0RNA.CE2E. 
588. Alangium Lamarckii, Thwaites. h.f.b.i., 
ii. 746. 
Syn. : — A. hexapetalum, Lamk. Roxb. 404. 
Sans. : — Ankota. 
Vern. : — Alcola, thaila ankul (Hind, and Dec.); Ankola, 
kala-akola (Bom.) ; Akar-kanta, baghankara (Beng.) Alangi, 
azhinji (Tam.) ; Amkolam-chettu (Tel.) - t Ankola (Gond.) ; 
Dhalakura (Beng.) ; (in U. C. Dutt’s Mat. Med.) Anisaruli- 
maru, eopoata (Can.); Onkla (Guz.) ; Dela (Santal) ; Ankol 
(Kol.) ; Anlcula, dolanku (Uriya). 
Habitat : — Sub-Himalayan tract, from the Ganges eastward 
to Oudh, Bengal, Central and South India. 
This is a very handsome tree, and grows very well in the 
Concan. Whether in foliage, flower or fruit, in whatever 
condition or season it is seen, it is a striking plant. It is 
beautifully green-leaved throughout the year. Gamble, however, 
says “ it is a deciduous small tree, shrub or straggler.” 
Brandis says “a shrub or small tree.” “Bark £in. thick, grey, 
when young orange-yellow, fibrous. Wood hard, close and 
even-grained, sapwood light yellow, heartwood olive-brown 
with a pleasant scent ” (Gamble). From all accounts it appears- 
to be a very variable plant. My description is mainly drawn 
from a large tree growing with a girth of 9 feet in the Military 
Hospital, Thana (1881-1897), and in the adjacent Mahomedan 
grave-yard where the main trucks of several trees constantly 
sent out “ suckers.” The tree in the Military Hospital compound 
had nearly half a dozen distinct trees developed from such 
