The Flowering Plants of Western India. 



coarsely serrated, flowers small, pure white, bell-shaped, fragrant, 

 in very numerous short spikes or racemes, corolla lobes rounded 

 and reflexed, berry size of a pea. Atki, dfak. 

 Common in the Ghauts. 



H. gives several varieties, depending chiefly on the size and shape 

 of the leaves, and calls it an erect tree 30 feet high, or a shrub on 

 lands gone out of cultivation, neither of which alternatives seem to 

 be correct for W. India. 



2. ARDISIA. 



A. humilis. A handsome shrub, quite smooth, leaves long, 

 ovate or lanceolate, shining, flowers pale pink, waxy in umbels 

 or racemes, anthers very large, meeting in a point at the top, 

 fruit black. Dikna. 



Southern Ghauts. Throughout India (H.). This is the only one 

 out of forty-nve species attributed to this Presidency. 



The unopened pink buds are very beautiful. The anthers are like 

 those of Solanum. The specific name humilis is particularly in- 

 appropriate. 



3. EMBELIA. 



* E. riles. A large scandent shrub, stem rough and knotty, 

 leaves ovate, narrowed at both ends, flowers white or greenish- 

 yellow, very many in panicles, fruit like peppercorns. Karkani. 



Common in Salsette and on the Ghauts (J).). The fruit, waiwarang, 

 is collected and sold for medicinal purposes. 



* IS. robusta (E. basaal, D.), like the last, but the flowers in short 

 racemes, and the fruit red, when ripe. Amti, bdrbati, gondal". 

 Konkan, Khandalla, &c. Throughout India, very common 



4. 



JE. majus. A handsome shrub with laurel-like leaves, 

 obovate, blunt, smooth, and pure white fragrant flowers, petals 

 recurved, anthers large, erect, fruit like a miniature curved 

 carrot. Chip, fungali, cliawir. 



Growing in salt marshes with the different "sorts of mangrove. 

 Tropical shores nearly of the whole world (H.). 



Note. Of the next three orders all the species here given are 

 trees, almost confined (as to this Presidency) to the W. Ghauts, 

 and nearly all have many stamens. 



ORDER 70. SAPOTACE^. 



Leaves alternate, entire, leathery, without stipules, flowers 



