48 The Flowering Plants of Western India. 



3. ATALANTIA. 



A. monophylla. A large smooth thorny climber, leaves 

 shining oval, flowers small in fascicles, calyx splitting 

 irregularly, filaments forming an irregularly cleft tube with broad 

 anthers at the top, fruit like a lime, long stalked. Ran limbu, 

 mdkar limbu. 



Ghauts and Konkan. It seems not always to climb, and If. has it 

 also as a small tree. 



4. FERONIA. 



F. JElephantum. A thorny tree, leaflets 2 to 7 obovate, 

 smooth, common petiole winged : flowers small in racemes, pale 

 with large dark anthers; fruit like a large ball, grey, very 

 hard. Kdota. (See Hydnocarpus.) 



Commonly called the wood-apple tree. Pretty common and often 

 cultivated throughout India. In favourable situations, e.g. Surat, it 

 is a very handsome tree. 



5. ^EGLE. 



jE. marmelos. A tall thorny tree, with grey rough bark, 

 leaflets oval, smooth, cren.ulate, flowers in panicles rather 

 large, fruit large, round, or pear-shaped, smooth pulpy, the 

 rind full of oil glands, seeds many. Bil, bela. 



Cultivated throughout India, and said to be wild in the Deccan. 

 The pulp of the fruit is much used in dysentery. 



Limonia, leaves and leaflets with winged petioles, stamens 8 to 10, 

 berry round. * L. acidissima, a thorny, smooth shrub, leaflets obtuse 

 or retuse, crenated, flowers small, sepals and petals 4 : fruit size of a 

 pea or larger, very acid, with flesh-coloured pulp. Padshahpore and 

 Falls of Gokak (D.). Nhaibel. 



Luvunga. Calyx and disk cup-shaped, stamens as in the last, berry 

 2 or 3-seeded. * L. eleutheranda, leaflets, 3 abruptly acuminated, 

 flowers large, berry size of an olive. The Ghauts, common (-D.). 



Paramignya. Stamens 8 to 10 surrounding a columnar disk. P. 

 monophylla, a large thorny climber, leaves ovate oblong, flowers large, 

 filaments broad, stigma large and capitate, berry hairy, yellow, size 

 of an apple. Karwa wdgati, rdnyid. S. Konkan. As far N. as the 

 Savitri (D.). 



The genus Citrus, which has from 20 to 60 stamens, and 

 petioles often winged, contains the trees which make the order 

 famous, C. medico, (wild here and there on the W. Ghauts, 

 (Brandis] ; I had it on the Parpoli Ghaut), is said to be the 

 original of the cultivated citron : and of this var. limonum 

 is the lemon ; var. acida the lime, limbu ; var. limetta, the sweet 

 lime. 



