TREES & SHRUBS OF LONAVLA & KARLA GROVES. 289 



BlGNONIACE^. 



Heteropbragraa Roxburghii, DC. Waras. 



One tree at Karla. It is common on stony slopes on the ghats. 

 The fruits, at first maroon coloured, turn black. The seeds, including 

 the wings, are often 1\ inches long. 



Stereospermum chelonides, DC. Mersing. 



A tall tree in Lonavla wood. Throat of corolla dark yellow with 

 brown blotches and streaks, limb light buff with dark streaks. 



ACANTHACR/E. 



Strobilanthes ixiocephalus, Bth. 



A shrub, particularly common in the wood between Lonavla and 

 Karla. The flowers are veiy pale blue and the whole inflorescence 

 becomes hairy and viscid in fruit. 



Adhatoda Vasica, Nees. Adi'dsa. 



A very common plant, especially near villages. 



Verbenace^e. 

 Lantana Camara, Linn. Tantani. 



A prickly hedge plant with orange flowers, fortunately with no 

 tendency to spread and become a nuisance in this area. Fruits black, 

 in small clusters at the tips of the branches which are leafless in the 

 hot weather. Butterflies are very partial to this bush. 



Callicarpa lanata. Linn, Kan phuli. 



A tree 25 feet high, with a girth of 1\ feet, rather rare here, but 

 common in ghat thickets. Leaves densely woolly. Flowers small 

 crowded, of a beautiful rose-purple colour. 



Prexnna coriacea, Clarke. Chambari. 



Usually described as a climber. In Lonavla wood it seemed to me 

 to be always truly epiphytic in the manner of a young fig, and the roots, 

 closely appressed to the trunk of the host, were never long enough to 

 reach the ground. 



Vitex Negundo, Linn. Nirguri. 



As this avoids shade it is common only in the more open parts of 



the woods. 



Labiate. 

 Colebrookia oppositifolia, Linn. Bhamini. 

 A common shrub. Ripe fruits in spikes " like squirrels' tails." 



Laurine^e. 

 Machilus macrantha, Nees. Guriimb. 



A common tree reaching 50 feet in height, stem clear for 12 feet, 

 girth up to 12| feet. Leaves with the glaucous hue characteristic of 



