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2. P. latifolia. An erect straggling shrub, leaves broad oval, 

 blunt, shining, entire or toothed in the upper part, flowers as 

 in the last, but upper lip of corolla larger and whiter, calyx 

 2 -lipped, petioles and young plants rusty. Chamldri, 

 ghanori. 



Common in the Konkan, growing chiefly near the aea. 



H. has 4 varieties, and as he has not referred to D. it is not certain 

 whether the plant ought to be named as above, or P. integrifolia, as 

 G. has it. The differences between the two, however, appear to be 

 very slight. 



* P. corymbosa (P. cordifolia, D.), a thick bushy shrnb, leaves ovate 

 cordate entire, flowers greenish white, in short 'dense panicles, drupe 

 like a pea, 3 or 4-seeded. Khandalla (D. and (?.). 



4. GMELINA. 



G. arborea. A tree, hairy in most parts, leaves long- 

 petioled, heart-shaped, cordate, entire, flowers rather large, 

 brown and yellow, in racemes, lobes <of corolla broad roundish, 

 curled back, the lower one much larger and protruding ; anthers 

 attached to the filaments by a point only, fruit larger than an 

 olive, oval, yellow. Sheican, Kumar, gumbdr. 



Konkan, and less common in the Deccan. Matheran, but not 

 Mahableshwar (Dr. CooJce). 



H. says that it sometimes attains sixty feet. 



Two species are found in gardens, G. villosa, a small thorny tree or 

 shrub, with bright yellow flowers, and G. asiatica, a shrub like the 

 last but less thorny, with scolloped and shining leaves instead of 

 nearly entire and somewhat hairy ones. 



5. VlTEX. 



1. V. negundo (F. bicofar, D.). A tall shrub with grey 

 foliage, leaflets 3 to 5 lanceolate, the underside with the 

 branches white and downy, flowers very small, lilac or light- 

 blue in panicles, berry black, size of a pea. Nirgund, Indrdni, 

 lingur. 



. This is perhaps the commonest shrub in the Konkan. Very com' 

 mon also in the Ghauts. Throughout India (ff.)- 



The crushed leaves have a very strong and unpleasant smell, said 

 to be equally BO to insects. 



2. V. leucoxylon. A small tree, leaflets 3 to 5 entire smooth, 

 flowers whitish in dichotomous panicles, lower lip of corolla 



