5 8 The Flowering Plants of Western India. 



Pleurostylia, disk thick and crennlate, ovary half immersed in it. 

 * P. Wightii, leaves entire, oblong, whitish, petals much larger than 

 the sepals, fruit small, indehiscent, seeds with an aril. The Ghauts 

 <2>.). 



Eloeodendron, disk thick, ovary attached to it. * E. glaucum (E. 

 Roxburghii, D.), leaves ovate, crenate, shining, flowers small, 

 yellow in lax cymes, drupe yellowish-green, size of a cherry, tipped 

 with the style. Tdmrug, Bhutdpal. Ghauts (D.). Common over a 

 considerable part of India (B.). 



3. HlPPOORATEA. 



* H. Grahamii. Climing over high trees, leaves oval acute, 

 shining, flowers minute in long panicles, calyx lobes rounded 

 crenated, carpels 2 or 3 inches long, flat, like a paper cutter, 

 Zewatt, danshir. 



Common along the Ghauts (D. Sf G.). 



* H. Indica appears to differ in having smaller panicles, and the 

 calyx lobes triangular, entire, fruit oblong an inch long. Kdjur&ti, 

 tiroli. Ghauts (D. % G.). 



4. SALACIA. 



5. prinoides. Inclining to climb, leaves small, smooth, oblong, 

 finely crenated, disk large roundish, anthers red, fruit roundish, 

 red, fleshy, one-seeded with the disk adhering. Ingli, nisal bundi. 



The Konkan, not uncommon, I think. Khandalla (#.). 



D. has 3 other species found on the Earn or Chorla Ghauts. * S. 

 brunonia, branches black and rigid, flowers fewer together than in 

 the last. * 8. Roxburg Mi, branches pale brown, leaves almost if not 

 quite entire, fruit 2 or 3-seeded. * 8. oblonga, flowers nearly sessile, 

 rather larger than in the others, fruit size of a small orange, 8- 

 seeded. 



ORDER 36. RHAMNE-ffi. Buckthorns. 



Shrubs or trees frequently thorny, leaves simple, usually 

 leathery and very strongly nerved, flowers small greenish, petals 

 and stamens 4 or 5 inserted on the calyx tube and alternate 

 with its teeth, the petals hooded or with edges turned in, disk 

 large and fleshy or lining the calyx tube : fruit a capsule or 

 drupe. 



The general thorniness, the strongly nerved leaves, and the petals 

 and stamens inserted on the calyx tube (unlike all other orders of 

 the Thalamiflorse and Disciflorae) make the identification of this 

 order tolerably easy. The flowers, however, are much like some of 

 the species of Ampelidese. 



Note. All the species here described have 5 sepals, petals and. 

 stamens, and all except Scutia have alternate leaves. 



