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large and bearded with violet hairs, fruit oval or obovate, 

 smooth, black. Shiras. 



S. Konkan, Ghauts, and S. M. country. 



* F. altissima, a large tree, branches compressed and channelled, 

 leaves trifoliate, the long petiole sometimes winged, leaflets lanceo- 

 late, soft ; flowers small, white tinged with blue, in hairy panicles, 

 fruit size of a pea, black : Banalgay ; S. Konkan and Canara, 

 plentiful (I).)- ''A beautiful tree when in flower" (.). * V. alata 

 scarcely differs from the last, but the wing of the petiole is more 

 pronounced, and leaflets sometimes 5, flowers pale-yellow, or tinged 

 blue. S.M. country and Wari (->.) Konkan (Lisbon). 



Priva (belonging to this section), erect herbs, calyx shortly 

 5-toothed, limb of corolla oblique, fruit of 2 two-seeded pyrenes. 



* P. leptostachya, leaves ovate crenate, flowers small, white, i'n long 

 interrupted spikes, calyx enlarged in fruit with small hooked spines 

 on the back. Old walls at Dapori (Z>.). 



(b) Stamens 4, equal. 



6. CALLICARPA. 



C. lanata (C. cana, D.). A tall shrub, more or less covered 

 with white wool ; leaves very large, lanceolate or ovate 

 pointed, wrinkled, flowers quite regular, small, pale-red in 

 dichotomous cymes, anthers white. Yesar, wdkhora, ishwar. 



One of the commonest shrubs on the Ghauts ; also on the Konkan 

 hills. H. has it as a tree 30 or 40 feet high, but I have neither seen 

 nor heard of it like that. 



Note. There is nothing in this species to justify the generic 

 name. 



7. CLERODENDRON. 



1. C. inerme. A weak straggling shrub with a strong smell, 

 leaves small, smooth, ovate or obvate entire, flowers long-tubed, 

 white, in panicles, stamens very long, purple, ovary obsoletely 

 4-lobed. Tatkari. 



Grows in most places near the sea, and extends to Australia, 

 China, &c. Said to be sometimes called tivar, like many other coast 

 plants. 



To me it is a very unattractive shrub, but (7., whose opinion I 

 always quote with respect, calls it very ornamental. 



2. C. phlomoides. A large shrub of light-grey hue and 

 downy nearly all over ; leaves ovate, broad at the base, rather 

 triangular, irregularly serrated about the middle, flowers white, 

 fragrant, in racemes or panicles, drupe obovoid. Iran, ami. 



Common in Deccan hedges ; also in Guzerat and Sind. 



