6iG L\X. RUMACE.i:. 



Fubia t'mctorum, Liun. Sp. PI. (1753) p. 109. The European Madder 

 plant, uot indigenous in India, but, according to De CaudoUe, a native of 

 M'estern temperate Asia and the south-east of Europe. It is cultivated 

 in Sind and is a scandent herb with lanceolate acuminate obscurely 

 penninerved leaves 4-6 in a A^horl, leafy cymes, and didymous or globose 

 fruit i-i in. diam. El. B. I. v. 3, p. 203 ; Boiss. El. Orient, v. 3, p. 17 ; 

 AVatt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 6, part 1, p. 578. 



Under genera not inchided in the foregoing pages the most important 

 plants grown in the Bombay Presidency are the following : — 



Coffca arahica, Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) p. 172. The Coffee Plant, a native 

 of Abyssinia, the Soudan, and the coasts of Guinea and Mozambique, has 

 been cultivated on the hills between Panchgani and Mahableshwar at an 

 altitude of about 4000 ft., but not to any great extent. — Elowers : 

 Jan.-Apr. 



Serlssn fcetida, Lamk. Tab. Encyc. v. 2 (1793) p. 211. A small shrub 

 about 2 ft. high, a native of China and Japan, is often grown in gardens. 

 It has ovate-lanceolate dark-green shining myrtle-like leaves and 

 axillary solitary small sessile white flowers, which, as well as the leaves, 

 are fetid when bruised. Grah. Cat. p. 93; Dalz. & Gibs. Suppl. p. 44; 

 Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898) p. (540 ; Eirmiuger, Gard. 

 ed. 3, p. 579. — Elowers : May. 



i/«meZ?rt ^)o/«?s, Jaequin, Enum. PI. Carib. (1700) p. 10. A shrub 

 4-0 ft. hiph with dense rich-green foliage, a native of Tropical America 

 and the West Indies, is often cultivated in gardens. It has elliptic- 

 lanceolate villous and strongly nerved petiolate leaves about 4 by 2 in. 

 and scarlet and yellow flowers in terminal corymbose cymes ; the 

 corolla with a long tube and short lobes. Dalz. & Gibs. Suppl. p. 44 ; 

 A\^oodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898) p. 645; Eirminger, Gard. 

 ed. 3, p. 586. 



Pentas carnea, Benth. in Bot. Mag. v. 17 (1844) t. 4086. A plant 

 about 1 ft. high, scarcely shrubby (the branches all herbaceous), is very 

 commonly grown in gardens. It bears a constant succession of flowers 

 of a delicate lavender-color in large corymbs. DaliJ. & Gibs. Suppl. 

 p. 44; Eirminger, Gard. ed. 3, p. 586. 



Bonddetia odorata, Jacq. Enum. PL Carib. (1760) p. 16. A hard- 

 wooded shrub, a native of Cuba and Mexico, has been introduced into 

 gardens in the Bombay Presidency. It has ovate, acute or acuminate 

 leaves on very short petioles and scarlet or orange fragrant flowers. 

 Dalz. & Gibs. Suppl. p. 45 ; Woodr. Gard. in Ind. ed. 5, p. 354. 



