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8. AVICENNIA.. Calyx segments 5, concave, imbricated, 

 corolla 4 or 5-lobed, capsule broad, one-seeded. 



(c) Stamens more than 4, equal to the corolla lobes. 



9. TECTONA. Trees, calyx and corolla 5 or 6-lobed, corolla 

 tube short, anthers exserted oblong, drupe enclosed in the 

 enlarged calyx, 4-celled. 



10. SYMPHOREMA. Climbing shrubs, flowers surrounded by 

 an involucre of 6 oblong bracts enlarging in fruit, calyx short, 

 4 to 8-toothed, corolla 6 to 1 6-lobed, anthers exserted, fruit 

 included in the calyx, one-seeded. 



1. LAN TAN A. 



L. camara (L. aculeata, D.). A straggling scandent shrub, 

 with square prickly stems, leaves ovate acute, flowers in small 

 heads pretty, pink-orange or lilac, and of many shades in the 

 same plant. Ghdneri. 



This plant, which has a strong smell of black currants, is a native 

 of America, but has run wild nearly everywhere in W. India, and 

 still more so in the S., being in the Madras Presidency a recognized 

 nuisance, as the prickly pear (opuntia) is with us. 



JL. Indica (L. alba, D.), called by H. common throughout India and 

 Ceylon in the warmer parts, appears to be much like this, and is said 

 by -D. to be thinly scattered about Dharwar and other parts of the 

 Deccan. Many species of Lantana are used as tea in Brazil. 

 Le Maout. 



2. LlPPIA.. 



L. nodiflora. A small creeping plant, tough and hairy, 

 leaves cuneate serrated in the upper half ; flowers in ovoid 

 heads very small, bracts overlapping. 



The flowers are arranged so closely together as to seem to be on a 

 common receptacle. 



Deccan and S. Konkan. Common in grassy and sandy places (D.). 

 Abundant throughout India (-ff.). Tennent (in Ceylon) speaks of the 

 thickly matted verdure of this, so well adapted tor imparting con- 

 sistency to the soil. 



3. PREMNA. 



1. P. coriacea (P. scandens, D.). A large strong-smelling 

 climber, nearly smooth, with very large ovate oblong or obcor- 

 date leaves pointed, entire, shining, petioles long, channelled, 

 flowers very small greenish white in large panicles, one of the 

 lobes of the corolla much larger than the rest, drupe size of a 

 pea, black. Chambdri, dhdnsar, arani. 



The Konkan and Ghauts. 



