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1. Cadaba indica. Lam. Enci/c. v. 1 (1783) p. 544, A straggling, 

 much-branched shrub ; stems terete, the older smooth, purplish, the 

 younger pubescent, yellowish-brown. Leaves simple, entire, |-lg by 

 |-| in., elliptic-oblong, obtuse (rarely retuse), mucronate, reticulately 

 veined, glabrous, base rounded ; petioles tV" e ^^- I'^^S- Flowers dirty 

 white, in few-flowered, terminal, 1-sided racemes, the upper flowers 

 corymbose; pedicels |-| in. long, pubescent ; bract 1 at the base of each 

 pedicel, subulate. Sepals subequal, ovate-oblong, acute, exceeding ^ in. 

 long, pubescent outside. Petals spathulate, about equalling the sepals ; 

 claw long, very narrow. Disk prolonged into a funnel-shaped process 

 g in. long, expanded and toothed at the apex, mouth oblique. Stamens 4, 

 inserted about 4 way up the gynophore, much exserted. Gynophore 

 |-g in. long. Ovary oblong ; style 0. Fruit dehiscent, 1-2 in. by g in., 

 cylindric, irregularly torulose, pubescent or smooth. Seeds numerous, 

 striate, surrounded by an orange-red aril. El. B. I. v. 1, p. 172; Grab. 

 Cat. p. 8 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 9 ; Trim. Yl Ceyl. v. 1, p. CO ; Talb. Trees, 

 Bomb. p. 9; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 123. — 

 Flowers : Nov.-Mar. 



KoNKAN : Latv ! ; Cross island (Bombay liarbour), Stoc/cs ! Deccan : BaheU tf- Gibson ; 

 Bijapiir, Cooke\, Wood row \ Gujarat: Bahiil ^- Gibson; Junagbad, Cooke\\ Por- 

 baiular, CW/if ! ; Surat, JFootZrow'. S. M. Countuy: Belgaum, ^iYcAiV, 9801 ; Dbarwar, 



Cooke ! 



2. Cadaba farinosa, Forslc Fl. ^gypt.-Arab. (1775) p. 68. A 

 much-branched, hoary, wiry shrub. Leaves ^-g in. long, ovate or oblong, 

 obtuse or retuse, glaucous, or whitish and mealy at first, at length 

 glabrate ; petioles -^^ in. long. Flowers as in Cadaba indica, the limb of 

 the petals narrower. Stamens 5 ; filaments inserted about | way up 

 the gynophore. Fruit subterete or slightly torulose, 1-2 in. long, on a 

 gynophore ^-1 in. long. Seeds reniform-rotundate, compressed. Fl. 

 B. I. V. 1, p. 173; Ait. Cat. Pb. & Sind PI. p. 10; Talb. Trees, Bomb, 

 p. 9 ; A¥att, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 2, p. 3. 



A rare plant, found in Sind. Sind: Sioc/isl, Balzelll 



3. Cadaba heterotricha, >Stod-s, in Hook. Icon. PI. v. 9 (1852) 

 t. 839. A small tree, 12-20 ft. high, glaucous and pulverulent ; branches 

 hoary. Leaves petioled, orbicular, emarginate, pubescent with stellate 

 or glnndular hairs, often cuneate at the base. Petals 4, orbicular, clawed. 

 Disk elongated into a process about | as long as the gynophore, bilabiate, 

 lower lip truncate, the upper elongate, reflexed, 2-3-crenate at the apex. 

 Filaments 5, glabrous, free. Ovary and gynophore glandular-pubescent. 

 Fruit unknown. 



Stocks says (I.e.). — "The hairs on this plant are of 3 kinds. The 

 herbaceous parts have an ashy, glaucous look from minute, sessile, stellate 

 hairs covering the whole epidermis. Mixed with these stellate hairs are 

 pedicelled ones, forked at the summit. These give a farinaceous look 

 to the young shoots. Together with these, there are always present 

 glandular, ca]iilate hairs, few and inconspicuous." Fl. B. I. v. 1, p. 173 ; 

 Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 9. • 



A very rare plant. Sind : Stocks ! ; on rocks near Cape Monze, Stocks ex Fl. B. I. 

 (1. c). 



