I 20 The Flowering Plants of Western India. 



(b) Erect, height up to one or two feet. 



3. A. baccifera. Stem sharply angled, leaves often alternate, 

 lanceolate, narrow at the base, flowers minute sessile, whitish in 

 dense clusters, petals none, capsule round, seed black. Agiya, 

 Aginbuti, bharjdmbhul. 



Common ; the leaves are very acrid. Throughout tropical India in 

 moist places (-ff.)- 



4. A. salicifolia. Leaves lanceolate sessile, flowers red, 

 sessile or nearly so, calyx lobes 4 or 5 broadly triangular with 

 horns between, petals sometimes wanting, capsule as in the 

 last. 



D. has only Malwan for this. H. has it widely distributed. I had 

 it at Dapoli and Bandora, at the latter place growing in masses. 



A. multiflora, stems sharply quadrangular, leaves linear lanceolate, 

 anricled, flowers minute red in sessile clusters, calyx teeth 4, petals 

 none or small Deccan. Throughout the plains of India (H.). * A. 

 octandra, much like the last apparently, but stamens 8, and capsule 

 not so round. Common in wet ground (JD.). 



2. WOOBFORDLA. 



W.Jloribunda (Grislea tomentosa, D.). A small handsome 

 shrub, leaves narrow lanceolate pointed, dotted with black 

 glands beneath and strongly nerved, flowers very numerous, 

 bright red, tubular, curved, stamens of the same colour long 

 exserted, capsule oblong covered by the withered calyx. 

 Dhdurij dhdusi, dhditi. Sanscrit, Dhdtri puslipika, aquivala. 



Exceedingly common in S. Konkan and the Ghauts, and throughout 

 India (H.). 



3. LAWSONIA. 



L. alba. A twiggy smooth shrub, with small oval lanceo- 

 late leaves and small dingy strong-smelling flowers in dense 

 panicles, capsule size of a pea, 4-lobed, seeds many-angled. 

 Mendi. 



Commonly cultivated : " perhaps wild in W. India " (H.}. It is much 

 like the English privet, and the leaves produce henna, in common use 

 all over the East and in Egypt. It is said to be the plant referred to 

 in the beautifully sounding verse, ft My beloved is unto me as a 

 cluster of camphire in the vineyards of Engedi." Cant. i. 14. 



A red flowered variety is mentioned. 



4. LAGERSTR-EMIA. 



1. L. parviflora. A large tree with grey bark, leaves hard, 

 shining, strong nerved, oval acute, pale beneath, flowers very 



