88 DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA, Avicennia, 
Gmelina coromandelica, Burm. Flor, In. p. 32. 
. Is common in forests, and uncultivated places all over the 
coast. Flowering time October and November. 
’ It differs from asiatica in the following respects. 
Ist. This is always a smaller plant, with much smaller 
leaves, although growing together on one spot, which iscom- 
mon, 2nd. The throuas are more numerous, and always pre- 
sent, 3rd. The racemes are terminal, 4th, The leaves have 
the quality of thickening cold water like those of Pedalium 
murex, and Menispermum hirsutum, The flowers and fruit 
are m both the same.” 
The natives employ the water tchipvegldal with. the gat 
tinous quality of the leaves asa ptisan forthe cure of the heat 
of urine in gonorrhoea. . Water isalso ren 
the leaves of P. murex, by only turning thdea doundtiag wai 
the water soon returns to its original state. The leaves of this 
plant, G. parvifolia, must be gently bruised with the hand __ 
in nthe water and it remains. eo till decomposed be a 
. | AVICENNIA, Schreb. gen: N. 1063. ee 
Diloe five-leaved, or five-parted, Corol bilabiate ; upper 
lip emarginate ; the ry reflexed, Capeule a 
pte ee | ‘ 
aie tomentosa, Willd, i iii. 395. > | qt 
< Arboreous, Leaves opposite, obovate, fee underneath, 
Bontia germinans, Linn, = 89r, (ade 
_ Beng. Bina. 
QMepata. Rheed, Mal, iv. t.45, oo 
Is common in India, in low places near the mouths of ri- 
vers, where the spring-tides rise, Flowering time the hot sea- 
son. In the Soondur-bun, é, e. the lower part of the Delta,iof 
the Ganges, it grows to be a tree of considerable magnitude, 
the wood. of which serves the natives for various’economical 
