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looking shrub, with spreading triangular branches from a four 

 angled stem, armed with double spines : common. 



EUPHORBIA LIGULARIA. NAT. MUNSA-SHIJ. With twisted five 

 angled stems : common. 



EUPHORBIA TIRUCALLI. NAT, LUNKA-SHIJ. TAM. KALLI. This 

 plant is much used for making hedges, and from its continual 

 green appearance is well adapted for the purpose. It grows 

 best either upon a bank, or wall of large stones laid loosely for 

 the purpose, having a good cover of earth upon it. Any cut- 

 tings will grow, and the plant if by itself will attain the height 

 of twenty feet or more. The wood makes the best charcoal for 

 gunpowder. A parasite of a yellow thread-like appearance, and 

 leafless, (the Cassytha Filiformis) is very destructive to it, and 

 will totally destroy a tree or a whole hedge in a short time, if 

 not removed. 



EUPHORBIA TITHYMALOIDES. The Slipper Plant. This is a 

 thick deep-green leafed plant : it grows about three feet high, 

 but if kept trimmed may be used for a border to a flower par- 

 terre, for which purpose it is admirably adapted. It suffers 

 nothing by cutting, and if occasionally watered is always green. 

 It grows well from slips ; bears a small pink flower, and can be 

 kept at any height. It is sometimes called buckthorn. 



EXILE TREE. Vide Thevetia Nerifolia. 



FALSA. Vide Grewia Asiatica. 



FERONIA ELEPHANTUM. Aurantiacece. Elephant Apple. This 

 is a large handsome tree, with pinnate leaves ; bears a grey- 

 coloured edible fruit, the size of an orange, which contains a 

 sweetish pulp, eaten with sugar, and sometimes made into 

 chatnees. The scent is very unpleasant when dry. The cortex 

 of the fruit is used by firework-makers. An excellent pure 

 gum is procured from the tree. 



Ficus CARICA. Urticacece. NAT. UNJEER. TAM. SIMIE AT- 

 TIE. This tree bears fruit almost the whole year round. There 

 are two varieties, the white and the blue, cultivated in all the 

 Native gardens, the young trees producing the finest fruit. The 

 Italians, as the fruit begins to ripen, prick each with a pin, put- 



