DEOUGHT EESISTING PLANTS IN THE DECCAN. 39 



29. Calotropis procera Br.— Very common. The leaves are 

 hairy and contain a milky juice. 



30. Clerodendron Phlomoides, L.f— Not very common, 

 leafless at the time. 



31. Jatropha C ureas L— Not very common. 



32. Flueggea leucopyros Dalz.— Occasional in hilly parts. 

 A plant with thorny branches and very small leaves. 



33. Agave vivipara Wight.— Occasional, planted. The prickly 

 leaves are very thick and contain much sclerenchymatous tissue in 

 addition to the thick cuticle, groups of sunken stomata and a lot of 

 palisade and water storage tissue, the latter of which occupies the 

 whole of the central portion. 



Climbing Shrubs. 



34. Vitis pallida W. & A.— Occasional in hilly parts. Leaf- 

 less at the time. 



35. Gymnema sylvestre Br.— Occasional. A very hairy 

 twiner. 



36. Cryptostegia grandiflora Br.— Occasional. The leaves 

 are rather tough and contain a milky juice. They also seem to contain 

 what looks like transverse bands of water storage tissue. This tissue 

 surrounds the vascular portions. It is noteworthy however that the 

 sponge tissue contains very large air spaces. There is a thick cuticle 

 on the upper epidermis and no stonata present. 



37. Rivea hypocrateriformis Chois.— Occasional. A very 

 hairly twiner. 



HERBACEOUS PLANTS. 



38. Cleome viscosa L. — Not Common. 



39. Polygala erioptera DC— In fields not common. 



40. Triumfetta rotundifolia Lewi.— Bather common on the 

 borders of fields. 



41. Tribulus terrestris L.— Bather common. A very hairy 

 prostrate plant having a prickly fruit. 



42. Indigofera cordifolia Heyne.— Bather common in poor 

 soils. 



43. Corchorus Antichorus Bacns.— Not common ; in poor 

 soils. 



44. Blumea Malcolmi H. /.—Not common, in waste places. 

 A very hairy plant. 



45. Vicoa auriculata Cass. — Not common ; in poor soils. 



