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flat, enlarging and growing red with the small melon-shaped 

 fruit. 



Bombay and the Konkan. The enlarged calyx looks like a minia- 

 ture dish with the fruit in the middle. 



7. PUTEANJIVA. 



P. Roxburgliii. A very pretty tree, with drooping branches 

 and bifarious leaves, lanceolate or ovate, rather blunt, smooth, 

 sometimes unequal at the base ; flowers in dense clusters, very 

 small, stigmas 3, crescent-shaped, drupe from round to ovate, 

 stalked, white, with persistent calyx. Putrdvanti, jivputrak. 



Nasik. Konkan, Khandalla, Belgaum (D.}. Throughout tropical 

 India (H.). 



The generic name is from the Sanscrit, the drupes being used as 

 charms to keep children in health, 



8. APOROSA. 



* A. Lindleyana (Scepa L., D.). A much-branched tree, 

 leaves oblong or lanceolate, smooth, with large hairy stipules ; 

 flowers yellowish, anthers 2, bracts broad ciliated, fruit round, 

 smooth, tipped with the style, size of a pea. Said. 



Very common in S. Konkan (D.), Deccan peninsula (H.). 



9. ANTIDESMA. 



1. A. Gliaesembilla {A. paniculatum and A. pubescem, D.). 

 A shrub or small tree, leaves oblong, broad, rounded at both 

 ends, downy beneath, stipules small subulate ; flowers sessile, 

 greenish yellow in simple or compound spikes, the stamens 

 (about 5) the most conspicuous part, berry small roundish, dark 

 purple. Jondri. 



Konkan, not common apparently, but widely spread through India 

 (I/.). The leaves in the specimens I had were of an uncommon 

 shape, broad in comparison with the length, and equally broad 

 throughout, but H. makes them vary from roundish to oblong. 



2. A. diandrum. A laurel-like shrub or small tree, leaves 

 oval entire smooth, stipules lanceolate, flowers greenish, very 

 small, fruit minute succulent. Amihi. 



Dapoli. Vingorla (D.). Khandalla (#.). Leafless in the hot weather 

 (Lisboa). Leaves very variable 



* A. menasu (A. lanceolatum,^ D.). Shrub or tree, leaves long 

 lanceolate, smooth, flowers in spikes or racemes, stamens 3 or 4, fruit 

 very small, ovoid. Tulkat Ghaut and Virdi (D.). 



