. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. 344 LIV. SAMYDACEtE [Casearia with short ciliate staminodes. Fr. 6-ribbed, 3-valved, seeds embedded in a red pulpj consisting of bhe agglomerate arils. Subliimalayan tract from tlie Indus eastwards, ascending to 3,000 ft., common in deciduous forests. Salt Eange, Bajpntana. Central Provinces. Behar. Western Peninsnla. Prom Burma I have not seen specimens. C. Canziala^ P. PI. i. 529, is doubtful. PI. ^ The pounded fruit of tMs and
. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. 344 LIV. SAMYDACEtE [Casearia with short ciliate staminodes. Fr. 6-ribbed, 3-valved, seeds embedded in a red pulpj consisting of bhe agglomerate arils. Subliimalayan tract from tlie Indus eastwards, ascending to 3,000 ft., common in deciduous forests. Salt Eange, Bajpntana. Central Provinces. Behar. Western Peninsnla. Prom Burma I have not seen specimens. C. Canziala^ P. PI. i. 529, is doubtful. PI. ^ The pounded fruit of tMs and other species is used to poison fish. "Wood made into combs. 0. Lobhiana^ Turcz, very similar to 4, with more acuminate 1. has been reported from Tenasserim. 6. C. Vareca, Eoxb. Sikkim, foot of the hills. Assam {Ban Kasseru). Khasi lulls, Cachar. A small tree, 1. oblong, closely serrate, underside clotlied with soft long hairs, pedicels glabrous above the articulation. Pr. J in. long, yellow, aromatic, seeds in a bright red pulp. Prom Burma no specimens seen, 7. C. wynadensis, Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 160. Common on the slopes of the Wainad. A small tree, young shoots densely aureo-villous, branches, petioles and underside of 1. softly pubescent, 1. membranous, elliptic-lanceolate, base entire, upper part serrate. PI. on slender pedicels in fascicles of 6-8 in the leaf-axils. Calyx-segments hairy within, ovary and style densely hairy. 8. C. Kurzii, 0. B. Clarke, Chittagong, Upper Burma. L. elliptic-lanceolate, more or less crenate, witli long soft hairs on the underside. PL on slender pedicels J-J in. long, in axillary 3-6 fid. fascicles. 2. HOMALIUM, Jacq.; EL Brit. Ind. ii. 595. Leaves more or less crenate. Fl. small, hairy, in slender simple or panicled racemes or spikes, calyx-tube adnate to ovary, segments 4-7, narrow persistent, as well as the linear petals; round hairy glands (staminodes) opposite the sepals. Pig. 145.—Homalium tomentosum, Benth. J. Stamens epipe
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