1] TECTONA GRANDIS. 
mountains bordering on the banks of the Godavery above Rajah- 
mundry, Pegu, &c. &c. Lord Cornwallis and Colonel Kyd have 
begun some time ago to introduce it into Bengal, where it thrives 
well. On this coast it flowers in the hot season. Seed ripe in 
August and September. 
The wood of this tree, the only useful part of it, from long expe- 
rience has been found to be by far the most useful timber in Asia; 
it is light, easily worked, and at the same time both strong and 
durable: that which grows near the banks of the Godavery is 
beautifully veined, considerably closer in the grain and heavier than 
any other I have seen; it is therefore particularly fit for furniture, 
gun carriages, &c. where small timber is wanted. For ship building 
the teke is reckoned superior to any other sort of wood, being light, 
strong, and very durable, either in or out of the water. Pegu pro- 
duces the largest quantity, the large rivers there enable the natives to 
bring it down to the sea ports from the interior mountainous parts 
of the country, where it grows, ata cheap rate, which enables them 
to sell it lower than in any other part of India. 
7. CEROPEGIA BULBOSA. 
Manchy Mandi of the Telingas. 
Root bulbous, solid, a little flattened, with several fibres from it base, 
size of a small turnip. 
Stem twining, herbaceous, smooth, succulent, from two to four feet 
long. 
Leaves opposite, short petioled, obverse-egged, with a small point ; 
entire, fleshy; size various. 
Unbellets lateral, length of the leaves, peduncled, few-flowered, di- 
rection various. | 
Flowers pretty large, erect: tube greenish, border purple. 
Calyx below, five-toothed, toothlets acute, permanent. 
Corol one-petaled; tube swelled at the base, contracted about the 
middle, enlarging from thence to the mouth: border five-part- 
ed: segments linear, downy, purple, erect ; tops united, gaping 
at the sides. 
Nectary composed of five compound bodies, which surround and 
hide the pistil; from each rises a curved filament, which is 
about half the length of the tube. 
Anthers, if they can be so called, for they are only yellow scales ; 
five pair resting on the black pointed angles of the stigma, 
(corpus truncatum.) 
Germs two, united. 
Styles seemingly two, united, short, thick. 
Stigma (corpus truncatum) large, targeted, five-cornered, before the 
flowers open these corners adhere firmly to five incurved yel- 
low glandulous parts of the nectary, and between them the 
anthers; it requires some force to separate them to have a 
view of the anthers; afterwards, when the flower is full 
blown, they separate of themselves; the anthers are then seen 
poised, as it were, on the five black pointed angles of the 
stigma. 
Follicles two, slender, each about three or four inches long. 
Grows amongst bushes, in dry barren uncultivated ground and 
hedges. Flowers during the hot season. 
Every part of this plant is eat by the natives, either raw, or 
stewed in their curries. The fresh roots taste like a raw turnip, the 
leaves and the stem like purslane. 
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8. CEROPEGIA ACUMINATA. 
Commoo-manda of the Telingas. 
Root perennial, a flattened solid bulb with few fibres from its base. 
Stem annual, twining, smooth, jointed. 
Leaves opposite, erect, short-petioled, linear, tapering from the base 
to an acute point, succulent, entire; from two to four inches 
long, and a quarter or half an inch broad at’ the base, which 
is the broadest. 
Umbellets lateral, spreading, peduncled, shorter than the leaves. 
Flowers, kc. exactly as in C. bulbosa. 
Is a native of the same places with the former ; flowering time 
the same. Every part of it is esculent, as in the foregoing. 
9. QGEROPEGIA TUBEROSA. 
Batsala-mandu of the Telingas. 
Root, many small tuberous knobs, with thick fleshy fibres ; per- 
ennial. 
Stem twining, herbaceous, annual, round, smooth, jointed, much 
less succulent than either of the former, from four to twelve 
feet long. 
Leaves opposite, petioled, below hearted, about the middle egged, 
above oblong; all are a little pointed, waved, entire, srhooth, 
margins coloured, two to three inches long, and one or two 
broad. 
Petiole channelled. 
Umbellets lateral, erect, peduncled, longer than the leaves. 
Calyx as in the former. 
Gorol: tube as in C. bulbosa; here the segments of the border either 
adhere for full half their length, or do not meet; filaments of 
the nectary clubbed. 
This, like the two former, grows in dry uncultivated land 
amongst bushes: flowers during the same season, and, like the 
former, every part is esculent; the roots are eat raw, and are more 
palatable than those of C. bulbosa, though not near so large. 
10. CEROPEGIA JUNCEA. 
Bella-gada of the Telingas. 
Root tuberous, with many ramous fibres. 
Stem twining, round, smooth, jointed, succulent. 
Leaves very remote, and very small, opposite, sessile, lanced, en- 
tire, fleshy. 
Umbellets lateral, peduncled, or axillary, erect, few-flowered. 
Flowers erect, very large, beautifully variegated with yellow, green, 
and purple. 
Peduncle and Pedicels clubbed. 
Calyx as in the former. ; 
Corol: mouth of the tube and border much larger in proportion to 
the other parts than the last, but in other respects the same. 
Nectary nearly the same. 
Pistil, &c. the same. 
