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terminal, few-flowered ; flowers rather large, white, fragrant ; berry 

 when ripe red, oblong-pointed, usually one-seeded. Common on the 

 higher Ghauts, at Rohe in the Concan. Syn. Murraya exotica, 

 Roxb. Fl Ind.; Chalcas paniculata, Linn.; Lour. Fl Cochin, 331. 



8. CLAUSENA, Burm. 



1. WILLDENOWII, W. and A. Prod. 1, 96. Shrubby, young 

 branches, leaves, and racemes, glabrous ; leaflets 5 to 1 1 , alternate, 

 ovate or ovate-acuminated oblique at the base, crenulated ; panicles 

 racemiform axillary ; stigma 4-lobed ; fruit oblong. Chorla 

 Ghaut, east of Goa. Syn. Amyris dentata, Willd. sp. ii, 337 ; 

 Icica dentata, DC. Prod, ii, 78 ; Wight Tc. t. 14. 



2. SiMPLiciFOLiA,Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. iii, 180. A tree; 

 leaves simple oval oblong, attenuated towards the base, dotted with 

 black, glabrous; flowers from the upper axils in trichotomous 

 cymes, longer than the leaves; buds linear oblong ; sepals rounded ; 

 petals linear obtuse, silky at the base inside ; stigma 4-lobed ; 

 ovary 4 -celled, cells 2-seeded ; fruit at length glabrous, of the size 

 of a pea. Tulkut Ghaut ; flowers in August and September. 



9. PARAMIGNYA, Wight. 



1. MONOPHYLLA, Wight Illust. p 108, t. 42. A scandent shrub, 

 armed with stout thorns ; leaves ovate oblong, 3 inches long, 2 

 broad ; fruit size of an apple, when ripe pulpy, 4-celled ; seeds one 

 above another. Parr Ghaut, jungles at Virdee, throughout the South 

 Concan as far north as the Sawitree river. Native name " Kurwa 

 Waguttee." 



10. LUVUNGA, Hamilt. 



1 . ELENTHERANDRA, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. ii, 258. Shrubby 

 climbing, thorny, spines axillary reflexed, scarcely curved ; leaves 

 trifoliolate long-petioled, leaflets broad-elliptic or obovate coriaceous 

 glabrous, entire; flowers axillary, panicle spicate, spikes shorter 

 than the petiole ; stamens free. The Ghauts ; common ; flowers in 

 January; fruit in May; fruit resinous and odoriferous, size of an 

 olive ; found also in Ceylon. 



11. FEROMA, Corr. 



1 . F ELEPHANTUM, Corr. A large tree ; leaves small pinnated ; 

 leaflets 5 to 7, obovate, common petiole slightly winged ; racemes 

 lax, few-flowered ; fruit spherical, large as a billiard-ball, scurfy, 

 hard ; commonly called Wood Apple. Deccan and Guzerat; com- 

 mon. Rumph. Amb. ii, t. 43; Roxb. Fl Ind. ii, p 411 ; Wight 

 Ic. Fl i. t. 15. Leaves have the odour of anise seed. 



