GGO CXA'I. UR'i'ICA.CE.1:. 



crenulate leaves, known as the Fever- or Devil-nettle. A sting from the hairs is very 

 painful, the effects lasting for several days. 



There is one sheet in Herb. Kew. marked " Konkan Hcrh. Stoc7i-fi," not, however, in 

 Stocks's handwriting. It is not an uncommon experience to find it assumed that 

 anything collected by Stocks to which no locality has been assigned was collected in 

 the Konkan. In tlie present case there is not a shadow of evidence to show that the 

 plant was collected in that division of the Presidency. Talbot says (Trees, Bomb, 

 ed. 2, p. 333) : " Does not seem to have been met with in the Presidency by any other 

 collector since Stocks's time." It is quite inconcei\able tliat a plant ];ossessing such 

 formidable stinging properties (for a full description of which a reference maybe 

 made to Beddonie's Flora Sylratica, t. 306) should have escaped notice if it_existed in 

 the Presidency. Fl. B. I. v. 5, p. 550 ; Brandis, For. Fl. p. 404 ; Bedd. Flor. Sylvat. 

 t. 30(5; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 516; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. 

 V. 4, p. 587. 



VILLEBRUNEA INTEGUI FOLIA, Gaud. Yoy. Bonite (1844-46) t. 91. A small 

 evergreen tree with elliptic-oblong membranous leaves 6-14 in. long, drying brown, 

 and globose flower-clusters in small dichotomously branched hispid cymes irom the 

 branchlets below the leaves. Fl. B. 1. v. 5, p. 589 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 334 ; 

 Prain, Beng. PI. p. 9(56 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. (J, part 4, p. 238. 



There are 2 sheets in Ilerb. Kew. marked " Herb. SlocAs KonIcan"h\ii not in Stocks's 

 handwriting. This seems to be a case similar to that of Laportea cremdata, in which a 

 plant collected by Stocks, without an autiientic locality-label on it, was assumed to 

 have been collected in the Konkan. No other collectors have found the plant there, 

 and Talbot, who has an intimate acquaintance with the plants of the South Konkan 

 and North Kanara, remarks {I.e.): "This species has not been met with in the 

 Bombay Presidency as far as 1 know." 



CONOCEPJIALUS CONCOLOB, Dalz. In Dalz. & Gibs. Bo. Fl. (1861)p. 239. Shrubby. 

 Leaves very large, 1 ft. long, irregularly scattered, 3-ncrved, perfectly smooth, oblong- 

 ovate, acute, green on both sides. Female flower axillary. Deccan : Phonda Ghat, 

 Dalsell cf- Gibson. The above is Dalzell's descrijjtion of the plant, whicli has not as 

 yet been found by any other collector, and there are no specimens anvwhere so far as 

 I know. Fl. B. I. V. 5, p. 546 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 333. 



Order CXVIL CASUARINACEjE. 



An Order with only one genus (Casuarina), of which one species 

 (Casiiariva equisetifolia, Forst. Char. Gen. [1776] p. 104, t. 52) is 

 extensively planted but is not indigenous in the Bomhay Presidency. 

 It is a tall evergreen leafless very ornainentnl dioecious tree, with cylindric 

 or angled deciduous branchlets. Tliere are large plantations in N. 

 Kanara near the sea-coast, and, from tlie r(\T(liness \\ ith which it accom- 

 inodates itself to coast-sands, the tree is useful in the reclamation of 

 land from the sea {GamhJe). Tlie reddish-brown wood, known as the 

 Becf-ivood of Australia, is very heavy and hard and almost unworkable 

 by Indian carpenters owing to its hardness. It is chiefly used for fuel. 

 The wind, when blowing through a plantation of Casiiarinas, sounds like 

 the waves of the sea. Fl. B. I. v. 5, p. 598 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Suppl, 

 p. 82 ; Bedd. Por. Man. in Flor. Sylvat. p. ccxxvi ; Trim. Fl. Ceyh v. 4, 

 p. 120 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 335 ; Woodr. in Journ. Botn'b. Nat. 

 v. 12 (1899) p. 517; Prain, Beng. PI. p. 985 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. 

 V. 2, p. 230. Camarina nwricata, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. v. 3, p. 519 ; Grab. Cat. 

 p. 19G ; Dalz. & Gibs. Suppl. p. 82. — Distrih. India (east side of the 

 Bay of Bengal from Chitlagong southwards, elsewhere planted) ; Malay 

 Archipelago, Australia. 



