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Panch Mahals. N. Ghauts (D.). H. says the flowers are given 

 differently as yellow, rosy and purple. I have seen them white only. 



8. NERIUM. Oleander. 



N. odorum. A large shrub, leaves long linear, lanceolate, 

 flowers red, fragrant in racemes, follicles 8 or 9 inches long. 

 Kanher. 



Not in D. River beds and banks in Khandesh and the Deccan, 

 W. Himalayas, Central India and Sind (//.). White flowers are found 

 sometimes, yellow rarely. Scarcely any shrub is more beautiful or 

 delightful. 



" Where oleanders flush the bed 

 Of silent torrents, gravel spread." Tennyson. 



Perhaps only a variety of the common N. oleander of the Mediter- 

 ranean, which extends eastwards to Persia (H-). " In Greece and 

 Italy the oleander, or rose laurel, not only adorns gardens, but 

 fringes the roads and the dry beds of rivers with its fragrant rose- 

 like blossoms, and the faint brilliancy of its long evergreen leaves" 

 (Hehri). " It seems in Palestine to revel in the rough and shingly 

 bank, along which the winter torrent rushes." (Fullerton). So 

 Hooker considers that " the willow of the brook " in Scripture is the 

 oleander. " The wood, flowers, and leaves are very poisonous, death 

 has followed from using the wood as meat skewers " Hooker in 

 Le Maout. 



9, ANODENDRON. 



A. paniculatum. A very large smooth climber, with very 

 thick green stems, leaves much polished, oval with short point, 

 flowers numerous, small, pale yellow, calyx very small, corolla 

 lobes much twisted, follicles horizontal, 5 or 6 inches long, 

 tapering from a thick base to a blunt point. Lamtdni, Kduli. 



Ghauts and S. Konkan. 



To this tribe belong, Parsonsia, filaments twisted, disk of 5 lobes, 

 follicles united when immature. P. spiralis (Heligma Rheedii, D.), 

 a large, smooth climber, leaves ovate, flowers small, yellow or 

 white, in cymes, calyx segments edged purple, corolla segments 

 hairy within, anthers long, arrow-shaped, follicles grooved length- 

 ways. Vingorla. Wari country (-D.). 



Vallaris, as the last, but filaments very short, not twisted, disk 

 various. * F. Heynii, climbing, bark pale, leaves elliptic, flowers 

 rather large, pure white, fragrant, stamens woolly, follicles tapering 

 to a stiff point. Konkans and Deccan (D.). 



Beaumontia, flowers very large with leafy bracts, disk deeply 

 5-lobed, fruit long, thick and woody, at length dividing into 2 

 follicles. * B. Jerdoniana. A large, woody climber, leaves obovate, 

 flowers 4 inches long, follicles cylindric. Wari, S. M. country, and 

 Canara (D.). This H. thinks is probably only a var. of B. grandiftora, 

 an immense climber found in gardens with white flowers like datura, 

 but much larger. It is a native of the Himalayas. " The magnificent 



