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4. G. microcos. A shrub or small tree with ovate or obovate 

 bifarious leaves, papery and smooth, stipules large, wedge- 

 shaped ; flowers in terminal panicles, yellowish, drupe size of 

 a pea, purplish, smooth. SMral, hausoli 



The inflorescence of this is quite different from that of the other 

 species found in this Presidency. 



Konkan. Abundant in the hills about Parr (G.). 



The following are all shrubby except the last. * G. columnaris, 

 leaves oblong, rough ; flowers small, the yellow sepals twice as long 

 as the white petals, drupe purplish, top-shaped, bristly. Mahablesh- 

 war, Salsette, &o. * G. orientalis, scandent, leaves ovate lanceo- 

 late, flowers rather large, sepals and petals as in the last, drupe 

 yellow, size of a small cherry. S. Ghauts (D.)- * & populifolia, 

 much-branched, smooth ; leaves cuneate, variable, flowers solitary or 

 twin, petals white, drupes yellowish, eatable. Gingo ; not in D. or G. 

 Cutch, Palin j Sind, Stocks. * G. pilosa, leaves obovate, rough ; 

 flowers yellow, largish, petals bifid, drupes reddish-brown, hairy. 

 KhatTchati. Deccan (D.), Guzerat (B.) * G. villosa, softly hairy 

 almost all over; leaves roundish cordate; flowers nearly sessile in 

 close tufts, white or yellowish, petals notched, drupe round, size of a 

 cherry, pulp sweet, eatable. Deccan, Sind (D.). G. hirsuta, straggling 

 and hairy ; leaves ovate, oblique at the base ; flowers pretty, greenish- 

 white turning yellow, drupe smaller than the last. Not in D. Sattara 

 and Mahableshwar. Salsette (G.). * G. abutilifolia, a small tree ; 

 leaves roundish cordate; flowers greenish-white, drupe yellow, hairy, 

 4-lobed. Deccan (D.). 



2. ERINOCARPUS. 



E. Nimmoanus. A small crooked tree with large roundish 

 cordate leaves, lobed and rough when young, and with round 

 glands at the lower serratures, flowers rather large yellow, the 

 sepals longest, fruit triangular, bristly, the angles winged. 

 Chaora, Tivra, jangli tendi, cher. 



Common on the Ghauts and Konkan hills. 

 3. TRIUMFETTA. 



T. rJiomboidea (T. angulata, D.) . A small tough plant, hairy 

 all over, rough-stemmed, leaves various in shape, generally 

 angled, sometimes 3-lobed, flowers small, corolla nearly hidden 

 in the reddish calyx, stamens 8 to 15, fruit nearly round, size of 

 a pea, covered with smooth prickles. Nichardi. 



H. includes in this M.'s T. trilocularis, which has a large fruit 

 with hooked bristles (I had it at Dapoli), and considers T. 

 rotundifolia, D., which has roundish unequally-toothed leaves, to be 

 possibly only a form of this. Poona, Deccan, and Surat (D.). H. 

 calls the plant very variable, and common through hotter India. 

 * T. pilosa, a rough plant, flowers much larger than in the other 

 species, leaves as in the first, fruit round with hooked prickles. 

 Kutre wdndre. Wari country (D.). Throughout tropical India (H-}. 



