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is the case when cocculus Indicus is employed. This is 
the second species of fish poison, employed by the na- 
tives of this country, to enable them to catch fish, with 
little or no trouble. The fruit of Gardenia dumetorum, 
was the first which has been already taken notice of. 
3. W. ternata. R. 
Leaves ternate ; leaflets narrow-lanceolate. Panicles 
axillary. Neciary gibbous, with divisions alternately 
rounding and bidentate. 
Tam. Kaka-walsura. 
Teling. Chinna-wallursi. ets 
‘A small tree growing on the sides of hills. It flowers — 
during the hot season. ‘ 
Trunk erect; bark smooth, rust colour. Leaves alter- 
nate, petioled, ternate. Leaflets narrow-lanceolate, equal, 
entire, above smooth, of a deep shining green, whitish un- 
derneath ; from four to five inches long, and one broad. 
Petioles semicylindric, rust-coloured, two inches long, 
Stipules none. Panicles axillary, middle-sized. Bractes 
Single, small, caducous. Flowers very numerous, small, 
milk white. Calyx and corol as in W. piscidia. Nec- 
tary, the exterior one gibbous, and having only the a- 
Pex of every other division bifid; the intermediate one, 
Tounded, and a little shorter. Interior salver-shaped, 
with a large, high, callous margin. Stamens as in the 
former species. Style half the length of the gibbous necta- ; 
Ty. Stigma large ; apex two-lobed. | 
Ihave not seen the pericarp, but from the structure, 
and contents of the germ, I imagine it will be a one-seed- 
ed berry, 
HEYNEA. (R.) 
Sales five-toothed. Petals five. Nectary cylindric E 
‘With the anthers attached round the inside of its tn 
