Carissa. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, _ 689 
The fruit just before ripe is employed to make tarts and 
preserves of various kinds, also to pickle, and by most people 
reckoned superior for these uses, to every other fruit in the 
country, not even the mango excepted, __ 
They are universally eaten by the natives when ripe, and 
are erable pleasant to the taste even ef a European. 
2. C, diffusa, R. 
Shrubby, diffuse, armed branches dichotomous, Leaves 
sub-sessile, roundish-ovate-cordate, mucronate, polished, 
Flowers terminal, Germ four-seeded, Berries ovate. 
. Sans. Kurumudika, 
' Telinga, Waakoyloo, 
Oorissa, San Kurunda. 
Is a native of the Ganjam district, and from thence cathe 
| ward to the mouth of the Hoogly. F hoa time the hot 
season. | 
. Stem scarcely any can be aecids but numerous, spread- 
, dichotomous. branches, forming a low, broad, rigid, 
See bush. _ Spines opposite, &c. as in C. Caranda, at the 
larger pairs of the leaves only, horizontal, simple, bifid, or 
twice-bifid. Leaves opposite, sub-sessile, the alternate pairs 
always larger, and. ovate-cordate, roundish, and without. 
spines; all are-entire, of a firm, polished, shining , texture, 
each ending in a short, subulate, somewhat recurved point. 
Corymbs terminal, rarely axillary, many-flowered. Flowers 
pure white, Calyx five-toothed, small. Corol funnel-shap- 
- ed; the upper half of the tube a little swelled. Border of 
of five, obliquely-lanceolate divisions, /%ilaments. five, in- 
serted rather below the middle of the tube of the corol ; an- 
thers oblong. Germ ovate, two-celled, with two ovula in 
each, attached to the middle of the partition. Style half 
the length of the tube of the corol. Stigma double, the low- 
er half nearly round, the upper half more slender, and taper- 
a » Berries oval, pulpy, when ripe smooth, shining. black, 
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