Carissa. pentandria monogynia. 



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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 tolerably pleasant to the taste even of a European. 



2. C. difnsa. R. 



Shrubby, diffuse, armed branches dichotomous. Leaves 

 sub-sessile, roundish-ovate-cordate, mucronate, polished. 

 Flowers terminal. Germ four-seeded. Berries ovate. 



Sa?is. Kurmiwdika. 



Telinga. ATaakoyloo. 



Oorissa. San Kun/nda. 



Is a native of the Ganjam district, and from thence north- 

 ward to the mouth of the Hoogly. Flowering time the hot 

 season. 



Stem scarcely any can be traced, but numerous, spread- 

 ing*, dichotomous branches, funning - a low, broad, rigid, 

 thorny bush. Spines opposite, &c. as in C. Cctranda, 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. Filaments 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- 

 ino-. Berries oval, pulpy, when ripe smooth, shining black. 

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