1 8 T/te Flowering Plants of Western India. 



4. C. Roxburgliii. A large climbing, thorny shrub, leaves 

 lanceolate, more or less downy, flowers in racemes large, pure 

 white, stamens long, fruit large round scarlet, rou^h and 

 wrinkled, splitting from the top, seeds large, dark. Wdgati, 

 purvi. 



Waghotan. Ghauts and S. Konkan, not common (Z>.). 



5. C. pedunculosa. A small thorny shrub, mostly smooth, 

 leaves small, round-cordate pointed: flowers few together, white, 

 small, delicate, umbellate on long stalks : fruit round on a 

 short thickened stalk size of a cherry. Kolimd. 



Mahableshwar, Matheran, &c. 



6. C. sepiaria. A poor-looking thorny shrub, all parts more 

 or less hairy, leaves roundish ovate or oblong, flowers small, 

 white, with very long stamens, uinbelled ; berry two-lobed, size 

 of a pea, black. 



.ff. has 3 varieties, occurring in dry places nearly all over India. 

 It is common all over the Western presidency, I believe. 



7. C. horrida. A climber, rusty-brown all over the young 

 parts, and covered with hooked thorns, leaves ovate or oblong 

 with a short bristly point, flowers rather large, long- stalked, 

 white, with long white stamens turning purple : fruit roundish, 

 smooth, reddish-brown. Tarti, taranti. 



Common in hedges. Brandis says it flowers so freely that the 

 bush often looks like a mass of white and rose-colour, but I have 

 generally seen it more in accordance with its specific name, and with 

 the thorns far more noticeable than the flowers. 



The following are less common. * C. zeylanica (C. Irevispina, D.). 

 A thorny shrub, flowers large, white, solitary, the two lower petals 

 yellow; leaves oval lanceolate : fruit scarlet, size of a small orange. 

 Wdgati. W. Deccan and Vingorla (D.). A southern species (H.). 



* C. heyneana (C. formosa, D.). A shrub, flowers large, solitary, 

 pale-blue with yellow base, leaves as the last, fruit ovoid, beaked. 

 Chorla Ghaut (D.). 



C. grandis. A small tree, leaves broad ovate, flowers white in 

 corymbs, fruit purple, larger than a cherry. Pdchaonda. Forts of 

 Sholapore and Miraj (D.). * C. tenera. Shrubby, leaves ovate, 

 flowers small, fruit pear-shaped. On the Ghauts, rare (D.). 



ORDER 11. VIOLACEJE. 



Sepals, petals, and stamens 5, corolla irregular, the lower 

 petal being dissimilar. Fruit a 3-valved capsule. 



The above is the description of Tribe Violese, to which the violets 

 and pansies, and the solitary species of the order found wild in W. 



