9. Bandia.] 84. PtVBIACBM. 



B. tetrasperma, Benth. & Koolc.f. Kota, E\, mentioned in Manaon'i 

 list as occurring in Lohardugga, is probably E. fasciculata. 



2. R. dumetorum* Lamk. Potu, Ho ; Potab, K.\ 

 Portoho, M. ; Loto, Boi bindi, S. ; Mowan, Kharw. ; Saro, Mai 

 Pah. 



A small tree or shrub with oblanceolate to obovate obtuse 

 Or shortly acuminate leaves, fascicled on the old branches 

 and especially in young plants, armed with straight axillary 

 thorns. Pis. white, |-1J" diam. turning yellow, with a short 

 campanulate corolla-tube J-f" and ultimately reflexed 

 obovate or oblanceolate lobes. 



Common esp. in the valley forests. Fls. April-June. Fr. Aug.-Jany. 

 Dec. March-April. 



L. 1-3" or sometimes np to 5" by 2 7 (including the petiole) glabrous 

 or pubescent, narrowed into the short petiole. _ Fl$. solitary terminal on 

 new shoots or (in one variety in Singbhum) in 3-4-fld. sessile cymes, 

 Bubsessile or with pedicels £". Fr. yellow when ripe globose or ovoid li f 

 diam. crowned by the calyx-tube. 



The fruit is used to intoxicate fish. It is also occasionally eaten 

 according to some authorities, but the Kols say that it is not edible, and 

 though it has a pleasant smell, it produces a most uncomfortable burning 

 in the throat. 1 Campbell states that it is applied externally in fever and 

 that the bark is given internally and externally for fever, and that it is 

 also used as a dye. 



There are believed to be at least two very distinct varieties included 

 under this name (Cp. Gamble, Manual of Indian Timbers, 2nd Ed., p. 415). 

 It is possible, however, that the solitary and cymose flowers correspond 

 with sexual forms, as in Gardenia spp. 



3. R. uliginosa, D.G. Kumbikum, K. ; Pinde, 8. ; 

 Pindar, Kharw. ; Mohwan (Koderma) ; Pindaro, Mai Pah. ; 

 Piralo, Beng. ; Perar, H. 



A small tree or a shrub with thick black branch lets, 

 handsome when in flower, with large elliptic or obovate 

 fascicled leaves 2-8* by 1-4" and numerous solitary pure 

 white flowers 1-2" diam. Berry large ellipsoid 2-2|" green 

 or yellowish. 



1 Since writing the above the reprint of Mr. Innes's Famine Foods find. 

 Forester, February 1908) has appeared. He states that the unripe fruit is 

 boiled and eaten, but the ripe fruit is rather poisonous. 



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