1 1 6 The Flowering Plants of Western India. 



and pointed, with the edges turned back, stamens long, pink, 

 fruit ovoid. Karpa. 



I have only seen this tree once, in a salt marsh near Vingorla ; D. 

 has it in Severndrug taluka rare, in Canara common. I thought the 

 blossoms as beautiful as anything I had ever seen : 



" Flowers worthy of Paradise, which nature boon 

 Poured forth profuse." Milton. 



2. B. acutangula. A tree with cuneate, obovate, finely 

 serrated leaves, and slender, drooping racemes of small pink 

 flowers with scarlet stamens, the 4 petals wax-like with edges 

 turned back, fruit oblong with 4 sharp angles. Tivar, ingar, 

 ijal ; the fruit Sdmudraphal, Sdtkphal. (Dymock.) 



S. Konkan, not uncommon. 



The flowers of this also are very beautiful, though small. They 

 fall off very easily, making the ground all red below. So the 

 guelder rose at home 



" In a great stillness drops, and ever drops, 

 Her wealth about her feet." Jean Ingelow. 



3. CAREYA. 



C. arbor ea. A tree all smooth with large, obovate finely 

 serrated leaves, flowers few, very large white, sepals and petals 

 4, the latter curled, stamens sometimes red, fruit large, round 

 or somewhat pear-shaped. Kumba. 



Common in S. Konkan. Grows to an immense size in the moun- 

 tains of Coromandel (R.}. Said by H. to be called the Indian oak. 

 The size of the leaves, flowers and fruit make the tree very notice- 

 able, but there is not much beauty about it. The alternative name 

 Wai-Kumla belongs, Dr. Dymock says, to the unripe fruit. 



To other tribes of this large order belong the genus Eucalyptus, 

 Australian gum-trees, and Hertholletia ezcelsa, the seeds of which are 

 Brazil nuts. 



ORDER 51. MELASTOMACEJE. 



Flowers regular, calyx lobes and petals 4 or 5, stamens (in 

 all here given) twice as many, calyx more or less adherent to 

 the ovary, and afterwards enclosing the fruit, seeds minute, 

 very many (except Memecylon). 



This large S. American order is closely allied to the last, and also 

 to tbe next, differing from Myrtaceas in the stamens being definite, 

 and from Lythracece in the manner of their insertion. Three of the 

 species given below are strikingly beautiful, and easy to identify. 

 The name of the order arose from the trivial fact of the fruit of the 

 early-known species staining the mouth black. 



