Pa i- till a.} 



Kukura chura, Beng. ; Pavetti, Tarn. ; X<'nt-p}>i't.. tapra, Tel. ; Paicctta, Cingh., 

 Meenaban, Burm., is a common shrub of Bengal, South and parts of Central India 

 and the Andaman Islands. P. Ircrijln,^', DC.j Beddome cxxxiv. 7, is a shrub of the 

 higher ranges of the Nilgiris. Kurz, under fxora, describes 4 other species, viz. : 1. 

 compactiflora, and /. naucleiflora, from Upper Tenasserim ; /. webera>folia, from the 

 Andamans ; and /. recurva (Pcederia rccurva, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 684), from Chittagong. 



1. P. tomentosa, Smith; Beddome cxxxiv. 7. ; Brandis 275. Ixora 

 tometitosa, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 3S6 ; Kurz ii. 19; Gamble 48. Vern. Padera, 

 Kumaun ; Jui, Beng. ; Sundok, Lepclia; Papiri, impatta, nam-paputa, Tel. 



A large shrub with thin, smooth, brownish grey bark. Wood light 

 brown, hard, close-grained. Pores extremely small. Medullary rays 

 sliort, numerous, fine and very fine. 



Sub-Himalayan tract from the Ganges eastward-, ascending t<> I.>K)0 feet, Bengal, 

 South India and Burma. 



ibs. 

 O 3086. Gonda, Ondh 59 



15. COFFEA, Linn. 



O. bengalensis, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 540 ; Beddome cxxxiv. 8 ; Brandis 277 ; Kurz ii. 28 ; 

 Gamble 49. Vern. Kath-jahi, Hind. ; Kundrudi, Mechi, is a small shrub found in most 

 parts of the moister regions of India. The berries are used as coffee by Mechis and 

 Rajbanshis in Northern Bengal, but the coffee is of inferior quality. 



1. C. arabica, Linn. ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 539 ; Beddome cxxxiv. 8 ; 

 Brandis 276 ; Kurz ii. 27 ; Gamble 49. Vern. Bun (the berry), Kahwa 

 (the same roasted and ground). 



A shrub with thin grey bark. Wood white, moderately hard, close- 

 grained. Pores very fine and extremely fine. Medullary rays very fine, 

 numerous. 



Indigenous in Abyssinia and Soudan, cultivated since the fifteenth century in 

 Arabia and introduced thence to India. It has been cultivated in many pasts of India, 

 but on a large scale only in Mysore, Coorg, the Western Ghats and Ceylon. It is 

 occasionally found running wild in the forests. Growth moderate. 



P 3150. Coorg (20-25 years old). 



Prismatomeris tetrandra, Hook. f. and Bth. Genera PI. ii. 119 (Coffea tetrandra, 

 Roxb. ; Kurz ii. 28) is an evergreen tree of the forests of Chittagong, the Martaban 

 Hills and Andaman Islands up to 3,000 feet elevation. 



16. MORINDA, Linn. 



A genus of Indian and Burmese trees and shrubs, mostly giving a red or } T ello\v dvo 

 from the root bark. Roxburgh Fl. Ind. i. 541 to 548, describes 7 species ; and Brandis 

 p. 278 5> says that 5 out of these species " cannot well be specifically distinguished " and 

 that " it will be more convenient to consider them as one under the name M. citrifolia, 

 Roxb." The names of Roxburgh's 5 species are (1.) M. citrifolia, Roxb., from Pe<ni ; 

 (2.) M. tinctoria, Roxb., cultivated ; (3.) M. bracteata, Roxb., from Can jam ; (4.)1lf. 

 exserta, Roxb., of Bengal ; and (5.) M. multiftora, Roxb., from Nagpore and Berar. We 

 will, however, retain the name M. exserta for our specimens at present. 



M. angustifolia, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 547 ; Brandis 278 ; Kurz ii. 61. Veru. AsuqacJi, 

 Ass. ; Kchai tun, Phekial ; Chemnig, chenyning, Garo ; Yaiyo, Burm., is an everWeen' 

 tree of Bengal and Burma, whose bark and wood give a j T ellow dye- M. umbeuata, 

 Linn.; Beddome cxxxiv. 9; Kurz, ii. 62. M. scanrJcns, Roxb. Fl. Tnd. i. 518. is aii 

 fftergreen aoandent shrub of the Western Gh&te, Tenasaerim ;md Ceylon. Kurz de- 



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