. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. Sicintonia] XLI. ANACAEDIACEiE 20B coast, "but also inland, common on the hill east of Tonngoo at 2,000 ft. Fl. December-March. 2. S. Helferi, on rocky islands of the Mergui Archipelago. L. narrow-lanceolate, blade 6-10, petiole 1-2 in. long, sec. n. 24-30 pair. 9. HOLIGARNA, Ham.: El. Brit. Ind. ii. 36. Lofty trees. L. more or less coriaceous, petiolate, sim- ple, qnite entire, crowded at the ends of branches, petioles mostly with 2 or 4
. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. Sicintonia] XLI. ANACAEDIACEiE 20B coast, "but also inland, common on the hill east of Tonngoo at 2,000 ft. Fl. December-March. 2. S. Helferi, on rocky islands of the Mergui Archipelago. L. narrow-lanceolate, blade 6-10, petiole 1-2 in. long, sec. n. 24-30 pair. 9. HOLIGARNA, Ham.: El. Brit. Ind. ii. 36. Lofty trees. L. more or less coriaceous, petiolate, sim- ple, qnite entire, crowded at the ends of branches, petioles mostly with 2 or 4 spur-like deciduous appendages. El. small, usually sessile, dioeci- ous, pentamerous, in axillary or terminal racemes or pani- cles. Calyx superior, tube cup-shaped, petals densely villous. Stamens 5, inserted on the edge of the disk, which in the c? flower lines the calyx-tube, filam. glabrous, subulate, anthers small, nearly globose. Ovary in- ferior 1-celled, styles 3-5, tei'minal. Drupe oblong or ovoid, on stalks elongating after flowering, resinous, acrid, endocai^p coriaceous. A. Western species. 1. H. Arnottiana, Hook. Fig. ~Swintoma floribunda, Griff. J. f. (1876).—^, W. et A.; Bedd. M. Sylv. t. 167. Vern. Holigar^ JSulgeri^ Katngcri^ Kan.; Kaftu clieru, Tarn.; Cheru, Mai. A large evergreen tree, with black acrid resinous juice, young shoots rusty- tomentose. L. cuneate, obtuse or acute, blade 6-10, narrowed into petiole |-1 in, long, sec. n. 10-20 pair. M. f in. long, rusty tomentose within and without, fasciculate, in axillary sparingly bi'anched racemiform panicles, anthers red. Drupe glabrous, obliquely oblong, stalk 1 in. long. Evergreen forests of the western coasts and the Western G-hats, from the Konkan south^wards. Coorg, Nilgiris. Common in the low country of Travancore. PL January- March, jff. ferruginea, Marchand (1869), is supposed to differ by racemes shorter, more robust and less branched, clothed with red tomentum, and larger flowers
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