144 The Flowering Plants of Western India. 



seashore variety of A. foetida. *A. Ritchiei, very slender, acutely 

 angled, leaves lanceolate, rough, flowers purple, tube very slender. 

 Konkan and Belgautn (#.). Not in D. 



Note. The last three genera run into one another a good deal, and 

 H. has 97 species between them; so the student may expect to be 

 puzzled. 



To this group belong Argostemma, flowers white, panicled or uin- 

 belled. *A courtallense (A. Cuneatum, D.). About three inches high, 

 leaves in pairs or fours ovate, umbels short, bracts leafy : on rocks at 

 Chorla Ghaut (D.). *A. verticellatum (A. glaberrimum, D.), leaves 

 sessile in fours, lanceolate ovate, unequal -sided, all parts of the 

 flower 5, filaments swollen at the points, adhering. Trees in Wari 

 (D.). Canara (H.}. Ophiorrhiza, all parts of flower 5, disk very large, 

 capsule girt in the middle by the calyx tube. *0. harrisiana, herba- 

 ceous or half shrubby, leaves ovate lanceolate, stipules with one or 

 more long points, flowers white in corymbs. Ram Ghaut (D.\ 



Knoxia (here inserted out of H.'s order), fruit very small of 2 cocci. 

 *K. corymbosa, erect, slender, leaves lanceolate, stipules bristly, 

 sheathing, flowers very small, white or purplish, fruit 4-angled. Near 

 Vingorla (D.). 



(d) 10. MUSS^ENDA. 



M. frondosa. A shrub, inclining to climb, leaves oval, 

 flowers small in terminal cymes, rich yellow, one of the calyx 

 segments like a white leaf, the other segments long linear, 

 fruit smooth obovoid. Sancad, Iduchut, bhutkesh, shivar- 

 doli. 



Common in the Konkan and on the Ghauts; handsome and easily 

 recognizable by what seems a leaf growing out of the flower, " white 

 with the whiteness of what is dead." By this the plant departs very 

 remarkably from the symmetrical character of the order. H. gives 6 

 varieties. 



11. RANDIA. 



R. uliginosa. A small smooth tree, branches rigid, 4-angled, 

 thorns short and few, leaves large, shining, ovate or obovate, 

 narrow at the base, flowers large, white, solitary, sessile, very 

 fragrant, petals 5 to 8, rounded, stigma large, yellow, fruit size 

 and shape of a guava, yellow, smooth, with deep depression left 

 by the calyx. Pendharey, Kaurio. 



S. Konkan, S. M. country, Panchmahals. All parts of the flower 

 aie more or less fleshy, and the fruit is eatable. H. says that the 

 flowers are of two forms, either large and sessile with stigma 2-cleft, 

 or small and pednncled with stigma entire. 



2. R. dvmetorum. A rigid shrub or small tree, smaller in all 



points than the last, thorns stout, leaves smooth, shining, oval, 



narrow at the lase, flowers solitary, terminal, white, fragrant, 



turning to yellow as they fade ; fruit size of a small apple, 



green. Ghela, pairdlu, mindhal. 



