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Oleaceje. 



Jasminum arborescens, Roxb. Kusur. 



A scandent shrub with pretty white flowers which exhale the strong, 

 sweet scent characteristic of Jasmines. In open situations, where it has 

 no opportunity to climb, it becomes an erect shrub with drooping 

 branches. 



Linociera intermedia, Wight. 



Common tree, up to 20 feet in height, stem clear for 9 feet, with a 

 girth of 2\ feet. Flowers in short clusters, yellowish, scented. 

 Fruits black, intensely bitter. 



Olea dioica, Roxb. Pdrjamb. 



A tree 30 feet high, stem clear for 8 feet, girth 1\ feet, resembling 

 the last-named, but more loosely branched and flowers in open terminal 

 panicles. 



Fruits also intensely bitter, usually eaten once incautiously as Jambul. 



Apocynace^e. 



Carissa Carandas, Linn. Karwanda ; Corinda. 



A large, thorny shrub, well known to all. The flavour of the fruit 

 reminds me of blae berries. 



Carissa suavissima, Bedd. 



A large climber, otherwise very like the last-named. 



Rauwolfia densiflora, Bth. Kiira. 



A deciduous bush, about 3 feet high, in Lonavla wood. 



Wrightia tinctoria, Br. Nagal Kilra. 



A small shrub near Karla village. Flowers white with a corona of 

 fringed scales, appearing with the leaves which yield Indigo. 



Anodendron paniculatum, A. DC. Lamtani. 



Common in all the woods, but the finest specimens are to be seen in 

 that near the Tower of Silence. It is an enormous twiner and one, 

 strangling a mango tree, must be over a foot in diameter. The bark is 

 brown, thick and rather smooth. The latex is watery, slightly tinted 

 yellow and not viscous. The flowers are very small, yellow, in large 

 open panicles. 



BORAGINE^E. 



Cordia Mvxa, Linn. Bhokar. 



A few trees in Lonavla wood. The leaves have tufts of hairs in the 

 axils of the nerves beneath. 



