Order 63. Rubiacece* 145 



Very common on the Ghauts and other hills : also in most parts cf 

 India (Brandis). Very variable in habit and size. H. includes iu this 

 D.'s R. longispina, with long straight thorns and fruit size of a small 

 wood apple. Khandesh jungles. 



The fruit is used for poisoning fish, but when ripe is roasted and 

 eaten. 



12. GARDENIA. 



1. 6r. lucida. A large shrub or small tree, leaves oval, smooth, 

 hard and shining, flowers large, long tuhed, white, solitary, 

 stamens erect, stigma thick and protruding, fruit size of an 

 acorn, smooth green, striped longitudinally, crowned with the 

 lanceolate calyx lobes. JJekdmdli, Karanji. 

 Konkan, and further South. 



The dekamdli ointment is the yellow strong-smelling gum which 

 exudes from the youn^ shoots of this and of *G. gummifera, a similar 

 tree called Kamari, found in the S. M. country and Canara. Its leaves 

 are sometimes obovate, flowers 2 or 3 together almost sessile, fruit 

 much larger, oblong, smooth, with a stout beak (D.). *G. latifolia, leaves 

 opposite or in threes, large broad oval, stipules large, connate, flowers 

 large, solitary, long-tubed, fruit large, round, greenish speckled. 

 Pdndru,pdpur, Ghogari. Khandesh, Konkan, Belgaum (D.). *G. turgida 

 (G. montana, D.), thorns straight, leaves oblong obovato, flowers 

 3 to 6 together, white, short-tubed, fruit roundish or ovoid, rough, 

 grey. Kurphendra. The Atavisi, Mr. Law (#.). 



13. CANTHIUM. 



C. umbellatum. A handsome tree with smooth oval entire 

 leaves, flowers white in short-stalked umbels, corolla lobes and 

 stamens 5, fruit larger than a pea with square calyx mark on 

 the top. Arsul, tup. 



G.'s C. didymum, Mdlya, warsangi, common along the Ghauts, which 

 seems to be less of a tree, and the flowers in compressed cymes 

 instead of umbels, is probably not a different species (H.}. This is 

 found at Mahableshwar and on the Ghauts. *C. Rheedii, a thorns 

 shrub, leaves ovate lanceolate, flowers small, greenish, fascicled or 

 in racemes, tube very short and broad with acute lobes, fruit roundish. 

 Konkan (G.). Near Sivri Fort (D.). *0. angustifolium (C. LescJienaultii* 

 D.) H. thinks to be only a glabrous variety of G. Rheedii. Foot of 

 Ram Ghaut (D.). Chdpyel. *C.parviflorum, shrubby, often very thorny, 

 leaves ovate to roundish, corolla and calyx lobes and stamens 4, 

 flowers very small, yellowish. Kirni. S. Ghauts and S. M. country 

 (D.). Near Ellora (G.) 



14. VANGUERIA. 



V. spinosa. A small handsome tree, more or less thorny with 

 broad ovate highly polished leaves, flowers small, greenish, in 

 short cymes, corolla very hairy within, stamens scarcely longer 

 than the hairs, calyx very small at the base of the corolla tube, 



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