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BifllMin Doomoor, the vernacular name in Chittagong, 

 where it is indigenous, and the fruit eaten by the natives in 

 their curries. It is an extensive rambling species, depending 

 on other plants for support, but does not root on them, as 

 some nearly allied species do. 



Leaves alternate, short-petioled, oblong, remotely serrate, 

 or a compound of that and scollop-dentate, very harsh to the 

 feel, from two to five inches long, and from one to two broad. 

 /^m?V axillary, peduncled ; two is the habit, but rarely more 

 than one grows to half the full size, which is that of a large 

 olive, turbinate, rough with spongy, brownish tubercles, or 

 knobs; when ripe the ground colour is yellow. Uinbilicus 

 clavate and shut with ciliate scales. Calyx of the fruit 

 rather remote from it, and three-lobed. Male corollets, a few 

 round the mouth of the umbilicus, monandrous, with from 

 three to four-cleft perianths. Female corollets numerous 

 over the whole of the smooth inside of the receptacle, with a 

 perianth like that of the male. 



[}.F./'ruct'wosa. R. 



Shrubby. Leaves petioled, sub-ovate, entire, void of pu- 

 bescence, but harsh. Fruit in axillary pairs, rather long pe- 

 duncled, round. 



Parkut Doomoor, the vcrnacularname in Chittagong, where 

 it is indigenous, and grows to the size of a bushy, spreading 

 shrub of about five or six feet in height, but shows no tenden- 

 cy to climb, or ramble, like some other nearly allied species, 

 natives of the same country and the adjoining provinces. 



Young shoots void of pubescence, but harsh with minute 

 points, scarcely visible to the naked eye. Leaves short-pe- 

 tioled, alternate, ovate, rather obtuse, entire, and like the 

 young shoots somewhat harsh to the feel ; from three to four 

 inches long, by from one and a half to two and a half broad. 

 Fruit in axillary pairs, rather long peduncled, round, pretty 

 smooth, the size of a small cherry, of a deep orange. Umbi- 

 licus flat and shut with a few, smooth scales. Calyx of the 



