146 The Flow zring Plants of Western India. 



fruit when ripe brown and rotten like a medlar, eatable. Alw, 

 Chirclioli. 

 Common in the Konkan and Ghants. 



H. makes V. edulis, which is cultivated and has the same native 

 r.ame, a different tree. It is unarmed. 



15. IXORA. 



1. J. parviflora. A shrub or small tree with rather large 

 oblong blunt shining leaves, cordate at the base, and small pink 

 or white flowers in cross-armed panicles with bracts at the 

 intersections, style very hairy, berry round, smooth, size of a pea. 

 Kurdt, rdikura, gudvi-lakri^ mdkri che-jhdr. 



Ghants and Konkan. The green branches are used for torches, 

 whence it is called " the torch tree." 



2. /. coccinea. A shrub with smooth obovate leaves, upper 

 ones stem-clasping, flowers bright scarlet in close terminal 

 umbels or corymbs, calyx very small, corolla lobes broad-pointed, 

 berries scarlet, turning to purple. Bakora, cibuli, pendltiLl. 



Exceedingly common on the seashore of the S. Konkan, and strik- 

 ingly beautiful. From the general resemblance of the flowers to the 

 scarlet geranium it is often called " jungle geranium." 

 " Where, gemming oft the sacred gloom, 



Glows the geranium's scarlet bloom." Heber. 



Also called " Flame of the woods " ; probably landhuka of Sanscrit 

 poetry. Cultivated throughout India (H.). 



3. /. nigricans. A handsome shrub with long lanceolate 

 leaves, which turn black in drying, flowers delicate, white, in 

 very large heads, calyx and pedicels reddish, fruit size of a pea. 

 Kdtkuri, lokhand, dikura. 



The Ghauts. 



*I. elongata (I. pedunculata, D.). A shrub with slender smooth 

 branches, leaves elliptic, smooth, leathery, flowers small, pink, in a 

 lojse panicle, fruit slightly 2-lobed. Ghauts (D.). Konkan and 

 Canara (H.) 



16. PAVETTA. 



P. Indica. A smooth shrub of no beauty, leaves lanceolate, 

 obovate, flowers dingy white in crowded heads, corolla tube 

 very long, berry size of a pea. Pdpat, tartari. " Matheran 

 coffee." (Mr. Birdivood.') 



Konkan and Ghauts, very common. " Throughout India; one of 

 the commonest and most variable of Indian small trees or bushes " 

 (H.). He includes in this D.'s P. Brunonis ,whioh is softly hairy more 

 or less all over. 



