Calyx glabrous or nearly so. Calyx-limb deciduous. Corollatube ¼-½ by 1 in. glabrous. Lobes 1/5 in., elliptic, yellow. Style glabrous. Berry ¼ by 1/5 in., ellipsoid, pairs sometimes confluent into a spherical fruit. (Both confluent and non-confluent berries occur on one branch). C. B. Clarke.
Use :— The seeds are prescribed for horses in colic (Stewart).
N. 0. RUBIACEǢ.
592. Anthocephalus Cadamba, Miq. h.f.b.i.,iii. 23.
Synonyms: — Nauclea Cadamba, Roxb. 172; Sarcocephalus Cadamba, Kurz.
Sans. : — Kadamba ; Nîpa.
Vern. :— Kadam, kadamb (H.); Kadam (B.) ; Bol-kadam (Chittagong) ; Sanko (Kól.) ; Pandúr (Lepcha) ; Kodum (Mechi) ; Roghu (Ass.) ; Kadambo (Uriya) ; Kadamba, nhyó (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-l½in. long. Corolla glabrous, lobes erect ; Calyx-lobes oblong, persistent. Ovaries non-confluent, 4 celled in the upper, 2- celled in the lower, portion. 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.
Parts used : — The Bark and Leaves.
