180 The Flowering Plants of Western India. 



very slender, hairs of seeds brown and silky. Kura, pdndhra- 

 kura. 



One of the commonest shrubs in S. Konkan : also in the Ghauts, 

 tropical Himalaya, and throughout the drier forests of India (#.). 

 The seeds are called Indarjdo the bark gives the specific name. 



6. TABERNJ2MONTANA. 



1. T.coronaria. A shrub, leaves smooth, shining, lanceolate, 

 unequally paired, flowers large, pure white, fragrant, in dicho- 

 tomous cymes, follicles horizontal like a pair of horns, with 

 scarlet aril. Tdgdri, tdgdi, ndndet. 



Very common in gardens, and the flowers generally double ; wild 

 on the Mira hills near Penn (D.) ; nowhere wild in India (?".). 



t* 2. T. crispa. Very like the last, but the leaves very long r 

 the margin of corolla crisped, and the follicles without the red 

 aril. Taital. 



Matberan. Ghauts, pretty common (D.). 



Mr. Birdwood has in his Matheran list T. dichotoma, with the same 

 native name as the last, and Colonel Beddome ascribes it to the 

 W. Ghauts; a small tree, flowers white with yellow tube, follicles 

 orange-yellow. 



To this tribe also belong, 



Cerbera, leaves alternate, corolla funnel-shaped, fruit round or 

 ovate. * C. odollam, a small tree or large shrub, leaves lanceolate, 

 shining, flowers in large cymes white with red or yellow throat, fruit 

 ovoid, 3 or 4 inches long : Sukanu, salt swamps in Konkan ((?.), but 

 introduced (D.). C. thevetia a garden shrub, flowers yellow, trumpet- 

 shaped, leaves lanceolate, fruit size of a crab-apple. Pila Kanher. 



Ellertonia, stigma linear, bifid, fruit of 2 follicles, seeds winged. 

 * E. Eheedii, a climber, leaves elliptic, sometimes whorled, flowers in 

 short cymes, tube inflated in the middle, follicles horizontal. Wari 

 country (D.). 



Plumieria acutifolia, Khair champa, a common tree in gardens, 

 ugly when out of leaf from the swollen truncated branches, but 

 beautiful when adorned with large lanceolate leaves and white 

 flowers with yellow throat, very fragrant. It does uot seed. 



7. WRIGHTIA. 



1. W. tinctoria. A pretty, small tree, leaves oval, lanceolate, 

 smooth, flowers white in panicles, the fringe almost like double 

 petals, follicles long, the tips at length cohering. Kdla Kura. 



Hills in S. Konkan. The seeds are called goda inderjao. 



'2. W. tomentosa. A small tree, leaves lanceolate, downy on 

 both sides, flowers larger than the last, follicles a foot long, 

 rough, with brown specks. Tdmbada kura, Kdla inderjao. 



