600 



LXX, nrBIACE.'E. 



foliaceous, I in. lonj;, ovate-obloii^r, subacute, often with small inter- 

 mediate teeth between. Corolla | in. long, at first white, afterwards 

 becoming yellow ; tube i-l in. long, densely hairy outside; lobes | in. 

 long and nearly as broad as long, obovate-oblong, rounded at the apex, 

 pubescent outside, spreading. Fruit like a small crab-apple, yellowish, 

 globose or broadly ovoid, smooth or obscurely longitudinally ribbed, 

 crowned with the large calyx-limb, 2-celled, glabrous ; pericarp thick. 

 Seeds many, flat, imbedded in pulp. Fl, B. I. v. 3, p. ] 10 ; Grab. Cat. 

 p. 89; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 119; Wight, Icon. t. 530; Bedd. For. Man. 

 in Flor. Sylvat. p. cxxxii, t. 16, f. 1 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 2, p. 330 ; Tulb. 

 Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 189; Woodr. in Jouru. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898) 

 p. 645 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prodr. v. 6, part 1, p. 389. Randia lonrji- 

 spina, DC. Prodr. v. 4, p. 386 : Grab. Cat. p. 89 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 119.— 

 Flowers : Mar.-June. Vern. Geheld ; Gel. 



Coninion throughout the Presidcncj in cleeidiioiis forests. Konkan : ]\I;itheraii 

 Woodnnv'. Decca.v: Khandala, i>7»ra ! ; Mnhah\esh\\ar, CuoA-el. Wuodruw ; Kadkalla 

 near Lanoli, Banadcl; Karli, Bhiva\; Lanoli, Bhiirtl; Khaiidesli, Ddhell ^' 

 Gibson. S. M. Country : Sulebliavi near JBelgauin, JfccfZ/'OM'. Kanaka: Sampkhand, 

 Woodrow. — DisTRiB. Throughout India; Ceylon, Java, Sumatra, South China, 

 E. Tropical Africa. 



The bark, rind, and fruit are used medicinally and the bruised root and unrijje 

 fruit are used to poisou fish. See Watt, Diet. Ecou. Prod. 1. c. 



3. Randia malabarica, Laml-. Encyc. Method, v. 3 (1789) ]). 25. 

 An erect much-branched glabrous shrub ; branchlets sometimes reduced 

 to short sharp spines which are, however, often absent. Leaves 

 coriaceous, l5-2^ by f-lj, elliptic-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, subacute, 

 glabrous, tapering to the base ; nerves not conspicuous ; petioles ^-| in. 

 long ; stipules triangular, caducous. Flowers white, in leaf-opposed 

 spreading glabrous cymes fascicled on the top of a very short peduncle ; 

 pedicels ^-^ in. long, each with a pair of acute connate bracts forming 

 a cup at its base. Calyx i in. long, campanulate, glabrous; teeth 

 triangular, acute, about -r}-^ in. long. (Corolla lemon-yellow, hairy at the 

 mouth ; tube -I- in. long, glabrous ; lob?s \ by y^y in., ovate-oblong, 

 acute, veined. Stigma fusiform. Anthers long, exserted. Fruit 

 globose, \-^ in. in diam., red (Graham), marked at the apex with 

 the scar of the calyx-limb. Seeds 6-8 in each cell, closely packed, 

 angled, compressed. Fl. B. I. v. 3, p. Ill ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v."2, p. 331. 

 Griffithia frarjrans, Wight & Am. Prodr. p. 400; AVight, Icon. t. 310; 

 Grab. Cat.' p. 89 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 119. 



S. KoNKAN : Bed sell ^- Gihson, Nimmo ex Graliam, 1. c. 



I have seen no specimens from Bombay and there are none from that Presidency in 

 Herb. Kew. Kimmo ex Graham (Cat. p. 89) and Dnlzell & Gibson (Bo. Fl. p. il9) 

 give its habitat as S. Konkan. Keitlier Talbot nor Woodrow enumerates the species. — 

 I)iSTRiB. India (W. Peninsula) ; Ceylon. 



4. Randia rugulosa, Hool-.f. in Fl. B. 1. v. 3 (1880) p. 113. A 

 large climbing unarmed shrub with many drooping branches ; stem 

 reaching 4 in. in diam. at the base. Leaves 2g-4i by 1-2^ i"-' elliptic- 

 oblong or elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous ; main nerves 5-0 pairs, 

 prominent beneath ; petioles j|-| in. long, glabrous ; stipules ovate, cus- 

 pidate. Flowers in leaf-opposed j)aniculate cymes; peduncles very short ; 

 pedicels longer than the calyx ; bracts numerous, connate, cuspidate. 

 Calyx I in. long, leathery, glabrous or puberulous; tube campanulate; limb 



