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flowers red ; fruit globular, size of a small cherry. Common in 

 Guzerat and Deccan in waste places. 



8. HORRIDA, Linn. Thorns hooked ; leaves elliptic oblong 

 and ovate, with u long mucro, younger ones only densely pubes- 

 cent ; pedicles supra-axillary in a vertical line ; flowers conspi- 

 cuous by their long purple filaments ; flowers in February. Syn. C. 

 terniflora, DC. Prod. I, p 274; C. qnadriflora, DC. Prod.\ C. zey- 

 lanica, Roxb. Fl Ind. 2, p 567. Very common in hedges. 



9. SEPIARIA, Linn. Shrubby ; stipules thorny ; leaves roundish 

 ovate or broad-elliptical, corymbs many-flowered, sessile ; flowers 

 small, white ; fruit black, size of a pea ; very common. 



10. C. STYLOSA, DC. Prod. 1, p 246. A shrub or small tree ; 

 stipules thorny, short, nearly straight ; leaves linear lanceolate, or 

 elliptic mucronate ; pedicles short, stout, axillary solitary, one- 

 flowered; flowers rather large, green; ovariimi smooth, oblong, 

 furrowed ; fruit size of a billiard-ball, scarlet, warted, with t> ridges. 

 Syn. C. divaricata, Wight. Ic. 8*9. Our plant agrees perfectly 

 with Wight's figure and with W. and A.'s description of Stylosa, 

 except in the globose ovary ascribed by them to Stylosa. Common 

 all over the Deccan. 



11. C. GRANDIS, Linn. A small tree, covered all over with a 

 grey or fulvous tomentum ; stipules wart-like, or wanting ; leaves 

 rhomboid-ovate, sometimes smooth above ; corymbs terminal, many- 

 flowered, berry globose, 2-seeded, a little larger than a cherry. 

 Sparingly found in the Ghants and Deccan; flowers in May. 

 In the Forts of Sholapore and Mernj. Syn. We believe this 

 to be identical with C. bisperma, Roxb., a fact suspected by Rox- 

 burgh himself. Syn. C. racemifera, DC. Prod. 1, p 248; 

 C. maxima, Heyrie in Roth. nov. sp., p 237 ; DC. Prod. 1, p 248. 

 Native name " Puchownda." 



XL FLACOURTIANE^E. 

 1. FLACOURTIA, Commerson. 



1. RAMONTCIIT, L'Her. A tree; thorns few, naked; leaves 

 roundish ovate or oblong ; flowers dioecious ; stigmas 5 to 9. F 

 sapida, Roxb. Found wild on the Chorla ghaut; in fruit in April ; 

 racemes terminal. Wight Ic. t. 85. 



2. CATAPHRACTA, Willd. A tree, trunk armed with large 

 multiple thorns ; berry size of a small plum, purple, with very hard 

 sharp-edged seed. Found in the Warree country on the' banks 

 of rivers. Native name " Juggum." 



:^. MONTANA, I. Graham. A middle-sized tree with the trunk 

 jiimed, young shoots with axillary thorns; leaves ovate oblong 

 cienate ; fruit scarlet, of the size of a cherry, agreeable and 



