6 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nerium. 
hills and lower regions of the mountains directly north 
from Coringa_ in the Rajamundry Circar, and delights 
most in the south or sunny side of these hills and moun- 
tains. lam informed that it also grows in great plenty 
over the Carnatic, and in every part of the Circars. 
where there are hills or mountains, being an extent of 
above one thousand miles in iar oud. of breadth un- 
certain. 
It contains a milky juice, chiefly in the ronda tending, 
and young leaves, which flows freely on being wounded: 
The natives make scarcely any use of it, except for fire- 
wood ; and the more it is cut down, the more it increases : 
_ many shoots issuing from the old stumps, these in one 
year acquire various heights, from one to ten feet, accord- 
ing to the nature of the soil, &c. and are thick in proporti- 
on. It casts its leaves during the cold season ; about the 
beginning of the hot season in March and the beginning 
of April, the young leaves begin to make their appear- 
ance, together with the flowers ; by the end of the month — 
(April,) those that first began to be unfolded, will have 
attained to their full size. This I have found to be the pro- 
per time to begin to gather the leaves, and make the indi- 
go, about this time also it ceases flowering, and the seed 
vessels are fully formed, but the seeds are not ripe until 
January or February. 
The colour the leaves acquired in drying for my Hor. 
tus siccus, particularly if they chanced to be bruised, 
first induced me to think they possessed colouring mat—_ 
my “expeUEGOn although T have been often deceived 
by the same appearances in the leaves of other plants. 
For an account of the method of making the indigo, see 
Separate treatise. ; 
4. N. tomentosum, R. | ope 
_ aArboreous, Leaves ih pointed, dew Nec 
