N, 0. RUBIACE.2E. 
641 
Calyx glabrous or nearly so. Calyx-limb deciduous. Corolla- 
tube by | in. glabrous. Lobes J in., elliptic, yellow. Style 
glabrous. Berry i by J in., ellipsoid, pairs sometimes confluent 
into a spherical fruit. (Both confluent and non-confluent ber- 
ries occur on one branch). C. B. Clarke. 
Use : — The seeds are prescribed for horses in colic (Stewart). 
N. 0. RUBIACEiE. 
592 . Anthocephalus Cadamba, Miq. h . f . b . i ., hi . 
23 . 
Synonyms: — Nauclea Cadamba, Roxb. 172; Sarcocephalus 
Cadamba, Kurz. 
Sans. : — Kadamba ; Nipa. 
Fern. : — Kadam, kadamb (H.); Kadam (B.) ; Bol-kadam (Chit- 
tagong) ; Sanko (K61.) ; Pandur (Lepcha) ; Kodum (Mechi) ; 
Roghu (Ass.) ; Kadambo (Uriya) ; Kadamba, nliyu (Bomb.) ; 
Kadam, kadamb, nhiv (Mah.) ; Kalam, nhio or nhiu (Panch 
Mahals; ; Kadamb (Guj.) ; Vellai cadamba (Tam.); Kadamba, 
rudraksha-kamba (Tel.) ; Heltega, arsanatega (Mysore) ; Kaada 
vailu, kadaga, kadwai (Kan.) 
Habitat : — Wild in Northern and Eastern Bengal, Pegu and 
the Western Coast; cultivated in Northern India. 
A large deciduous tree of rapid growth ; branches horizontal, 
rather drooping at the ends. Bark dark-grey with numerous 
regular longitudinal fissures ; the outer bark peeling off in small 
rectangular scales. Wood white, with a yellowish tinge, soft, 
even-grained. Leaves coriaceous, shining, glabrous above, 
pubescent beneath, elliptic-oblong, ovate, or ovate-cordate, acute, 
5-9 in. Stipules linear, early caducous. Flower-heads scented 
at night, simple, l-2in. diam., terminal, yellow, or orange- 
coloured, with white stigmas. Peduncles l-l|in. long. Cotolla 
glabrous, lobes erect ; Calyx-lobes oblong, persistent. Ovaries 
non-confluent, 4-celled in the upper, 2-celled in the lower, por- 
tion. Bracteoles .0. Fruit a fleshy receptacle, as large as a 
small orange, on which are inserted numerous closely-packed 
few-seeded capsules. Seeds not winged, minute. 
Parte used : — The Bark and Leaves. 
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