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6. PENTATROPIS. 



P. micropliylla. Small, leaves oval, nearly veinless, flowers 

 greenish, 3 or 4 together in short-stalked umbels, points of the 

 corolla curled up, follicles tapering at both ends. Singrota. 



Common ; growing close to the sea ; very plentiful at Surat. 



The flowers are a good deal like those of Cryptolepis, and the 

 leaves are variable in breadth, and often much variegated. 



7. DJEMIA. 



I), extensa. A middled-sized hairy twiner with roundish 

 cordate pointed leaves, and dull white drooping flowers on long 

 slender pedicels and peduncles ; calyx very small, anthers large 

 pure white, follicles cylindrical beaked. Utarni, hirandori. 



A very common and unattractive plant with a disagreeable smell ; 

 specially common in Guzerat. Throughout India (H.). 



8. HOLOSTEMMA. 



H. Rheedii. Large leaves deeply cordate, ovate pointed, 

 flowers fleshy in umbels, anthers and column large and re- 

 markable, follicles large, ovate. Skidodi, tultuli, dudurli. 



"The flowers are a mixture of red, green, and white, agreeably 

 fragrant "((?.) Tn e bark is full of a very fine fibre. 



S. Konkan. Common in hedges about Bombay, where children eat 

 the flowers (Dymocty. Hills about Poona (Dr, Cooke). 



9. TYLOPHORA. 



D. has 4 species, but gives no hab. I have unfortunately never 

 identified any one of them, though I believed I had the first as 

 an erect shrub. * T. fasciculata, climbing among grass, v leaves 

 ovate lanceolate, flowers white, more or less umbelled, corolla 

 lobes broad ovate, fleshy, follicles ovoid lanceolate. S. Konkan, 

 &c. * T. tennis, very slender, quite smooth, leaves small, fleshy, 

 ovate, flowers very small, dark purple, in small umbels from a 

 common peduncle, follicles poniard-shaped. Deccan peninsula (-S".)- 

 * T. Dalzellii (T. carnosa, D.), smooth or slightly downy, leaves ovate, 

 fleshy, shinning, very variable, flowers very small, purple, some- 

 times in a.crowded round head, follicles as in the last. Konkan (H.). 

 Mahableshwar (Dr. Cooke). * T. asthmatica, leaves ovate, flowers 

 in small umbels, dull yellow and purple, follicles very variable. 

 Antamul, pitvel. Deccan peninsula (#.). 



10. COSMOSTIGMA. 



C. racemosa. A good-sized climber, leaves large, broad 

 ovate or rounded, flowers in umbels or racemes, small, yellow 

 with rusty dots, follicles oblong, obtuse. Jati, shendori, 

 ghdrphul. 



Dapoli. Common in hedges (!>.} 



