2O The Flowering Plants of Western India. 



crenate, fruit size of a cherry, red, eatable, seeds 10 or 12, 

 embedded in pulp. AtaJc. 



The Ghauts and hilly parts of the Konkan. 

 2. F. sepiaria. Very thorny, bark light-grey, leaves smooth, 

 shining, obovate, on red petioles, stigmas 3 to 5, fruit size of a 

 pea, purplish, seeds in 5 vertical pairs. Ataran. 



The Konkan. 



What the tdmbat at Mahableshwar is it is beyond me to decide. It 

 is almost exactly like this last, and I believe, and am well supported 

 in thinking, that it is very often found unarmed. It may be a 

 variety of F. sepiaria, or as G. makes it, F. inermis, which H. does 

 not refer to this part of India. Mr. Birdwood calls it F. ramontchi, 

 which H. makes wild or cultivated throughout India, and whieh 0. 

 calls the Mauritius plum. Kdki, Ihekal. D. has also * F. cataphracta 

 on the banks of rivers in the Wdri country. Thorns large com- 

 pound, berry size of a small plum, with very hard sharp-edged seed. 

 Jagam. Commonly cultivated, H. Dr. Dymock calls this also 

 dmbat. 



3. HYDNOCARPUS. 



H. Wightianus (H. inebrians, D.). A fine tree, leaves long 

 lanceolate, smooth and shining, flowers white in umbels or 

 racemes, calyx and pedicels rusty, petals rounded, fringed with 

 silvery hairs, scales brown, hairy and fleshy : fruit a rough, 

 hard, rusty-brown ball, like the wood-apple. Kauti, Kadu- 

 Kawat. 



S. Konkan. Commoner apparently farther S. 



Scolopia. Flowers small, racemed, stamens many, berry 2 to 4 

 seeded. * S. crenata (Phobera c. D.). Leaves ovate or oblong, obtusely 

 serrated or crenated, fruit round, green. S. Ghauts (D.). Excessively 

 variable (H.) Hintdlu. 



To this order also belongs Bixa orellana, a handsome shrub or 

 small tree commonly cultivated. Kisri, sendri. The pulp which 

 covers the seed is Arnotto, used as in England and Holland, for 

 colouring butter and cheese. In the Spanish Main the Indians paint 

 their bodies all over with it for full dress (Kingsley) : and this use of 

 it is said also to prevent mosquito bites. 



ORDER 13. PITTOSPORACE.E. 



Trees or shrubs, leaves alternate entire, sepals and petals 5 

 imbricated, stamens 5, stigma 2 to 5 lobed. 



* Pittosporum floribundum. A small tree, leaves lanceolate 

 waved, flowers in racemes, dingy white, capsule 2-valved, size 

 of a pea, seeds covered with reddish resin. Yekadi, behkali, 

 vikhdri. 



Along the Ghauts (D.). Khandalla, pretty common (G.). 



