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2. BURSINOPETALUM, Wight. 



1. B ARBOREUM, Wight Ic. 956. A large tree ; leaves ovate- 

 oblong acuminated ; flowers terminal, small ; calyx conical, adhering 

 to the ovary ; petals 5, ovate-pointed, leathery ; fruit drupaceous, of 

 the size of a small plum, ovoid. Par war Ghaut ; not common ; 

 flowers in April and May. Thwaites refers this to Araliaceae. 



3. MAPPIA, Jacq. 



1. M OBLONGA, Miers in Taylor's Ann. of Nat. Hist, x, p40. 

 A middle-sized tree ; leaves elliptic oblong acuminated, venous ; 

 flowers terminal, cymose panicled, of a yellowish white, very foetid; 

 drupe succulent, olive-shaped, purple when ripe. The Ghauts 

 opposite Goa ; common. Closely allied to the Stemonurus fcetidus 

 of Wight's Ic. 955, if really distinct. 



4. PLATEA, Blume. 



1. AXILLARIS, Thwaites Enum. p 44. Dioecious glabrous; 

 leaves shortly petioled, acuminate, membranaceous ; cymes axillary, 

 solitary or twin, as long as the petiole, male few-flowered, female 

 2 to 5-flowered ; calyx minutely 4 to 5-toothed ; petals 4 to 5, 

 united at the base into a tubular corolla ; fruit ovoid. Chorla and 

 Parwar Ghauts. Syn. Gomphandra polymorpha, Wight. Illust. i, 

 103 ; Stemonurus axillaris, Miers in Ann. of Nat. Hist. vol. x, p 41 . 



XXXI. AURANTIACE^E. 

 1. ATALANTIA, Con. 



1. MONOPHYLLA, DC. Prod. 1, 535. A large climbing shrub 

 armed with small thorns ; leaves ovate or oblong ; racemes short, 

 sessile, pedicles long, slender; flowers white, appear in November, 

 fruit size of a nutmeg, very much like a lime. On the Ghauts ; 

 common. Native name " Ran" or " Makur limboo" Syn. Limonia 

 monophylla, Linn. Roxb. Cor. i, t. 82 ; Fl Ind. ii, 378 ; Trichilia 

 spinosa, Willd. ii, 554; DC. Prod. 1, 623 ; Rheede Mai. iv, t. 12. 



2. LIMONIA, Linn. 



1. OLIGANDRA, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. ii, 25, 8. Shrubby, 

 climbing, thorny, thorns numerous, short recurved ; leaves petioled, 

 trifoliolate ; leaflets elliptic, obtusely acuminated, slightly crenated ; 

 flowers axillary, racemes panicled, about as long as the leaf; petals 

 5, linear oblong; stamens 5, filaments free; fruit size of a pea, 

 5-celled ; flowers in November and December. 'Ram Ghaut. 



