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XL VI. ABALIACEiE 
short column. Fruit black or yellow, sometimes red, smooth, 
globose, J in. diam. 
Simla ; September, October. — Himalaya, 6000-10,000 ft. — N. Asia, Europe 
(Britain, Common Ivy). 
XLVII. CORNACE^E 
Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate or opposite, stalked, simple, 
entire or angularly lobed ; stipules none. Flowers small, white, 
regular, 2-sexual, in cymes or involucrate heads. Calyx-tube 
adnate to the ovary ; limb 6- or 4-toothed. Petals 6 or 4, valvate 
in bud, usually free, inserted on the margin of the ovary. 
Stamens as many as the petals, inserted with them. Ovary 
inferior, 2-celled ; style short or long ; stigma terminal ; ovules 
solitary in each cell. Fruit succulent, drupe-like, usually free 
and J-J in. long, containing a small, 2-celled, 2-seeded stone ; in 
C. capitata very small and coalescing in a globose head. — Chiefly 
1ST. temperate regions. 
Leaves alternate. Petals 6, long, strap-shaped. Stamens 6 . .1. Marlea , 
Leaves opposite. Petals 4, short, oblong. Stamens 4 . . .2. Cornus. 
1 MARLEA. The native name in Sylhet of M. begonicefolia . 
— Asia, Australia, Polynesia. 
Marlea begonisefolia, Roxb . ; FI. Br. Ind. ii. 743. A nearly 
glabrous tree. Leaves alternate, broadly ovate, unequally sided, 
3- 6 X 2^-6 in., usually angularly lobed, sometimes entire, long- 
pointed. Flowers § in. long, in axillary cymes. Calyx minutely 
6-toothed. Petals 6, long, white, strap-shaped, reflexed, sometimes- 
cohering near the base. Stamens 6, filaments short, hairy, anthers 
long, linear, yellow, cohering. Style long, slender, hairy, tip 
4- lobed. Drupes free, dark purple, ovoid, J in., crowned with the 
calyx-limb ; stone enveloped in pulp, sometimes, by abortion, 
1- celled and 1 -seeded. 
Simla, the Glen, not common ; March-May. — Throughout N. India, 
ascending to 6000 ft. — China, Japan. 
2. CORNUS. The Latin name of the Dogwood tree, Cornus 
Mas , Linn., derived from cornu , horn ; referring to the hard wood. 
—Chiefly N. temperate regions. 
Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, entire ; upper surface green, 
lower pale, nearly white. Flowers white, in terminal, compound 
cymes or in involucrate heads. Calyx 4-toothed. Petals 4, 
