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2. SALACIA, Linn. 



1. PRINOIDES, DC. Prod. 1, 571. Shrub; leaves oblong acu- 

 minate, serrulate, coriaceous, smooth, shining; pedicels fascicled 

 on an axillary tubercle; flowers very small, appear in December; 

 fruit globose, fleshy red, like a cherry, one-seeded, eatable. Native 

 name " Neesul Bondee." In the Warree country ; not very com- 

 mon. Tonsella prinoides, Willd. ; Johnia coromandeliana, Roxb. 

 Fl Ind. i, 169. 



2. S ROXBURGHII. A shrub ; leaves oblong lanceolate, bluntly 

 acuminated, coriaceous, nearly quite entire ; pedicels many, on an 

 axillary tubercle ; flowers greenish, minute ; fruit large, globose, 

 rough and dry, size of a crab-apple, 2 to 3-seeded. Ram Ghaut; 

 flowers in February. Johnia salacioides, Roxb. Fl Ind. i, 168. 



3. S OBLONGA, Wall. A glabrous shrub ; leaves elliptic-oblong, 

 thin, coriaceous, entire (in Bombay specimens) ; peduncle axillary 

 short, 3-flowered ; pedicels equal to the peduncle, petals long and 

 connivent ; fruit size of a small orange, 8-seeded ; seed large, angu- 

 lar. Chorla Ghaut ; flowers greenish-yellow, large for the genus. 



4. S BRUNONIANA, W. and A. Prod. 1, 105. Glabrous, 

 branches terete, leaves oblong, or elliptic, obtusely acuminated, 

 minutely serrated, coriaceous ; pedicels few, on an axillary tubercle, 

 one-flowered, as long as the petiole ; calyx shortly and obtusely 

 5-toothed, petals ovate, sessile, coriaceous. Ram Ghaut. 



XXXIV. MALPIGHIACE^E. 



1. HEPTAGE, Gaert. 



1. MADABLOTA, Gaert. fr. ii, 169, t. 116. A climbing shrub; 

 leaves ovate, acuminated ; flowers in terminal racemes, white and 

 yellow; carpels unequally 3-winged. On the Ghauts, and in the 

 Concans ; pretty common ; flowers and fruit in January and Feb- 

 ruary. The bark is a very good subaromatic bitter, Dr. Lush. Syn. 

 Molina racemosa, Cav. dissert, ix, t. 263 ; Gaert. racemosa, 

 Roxb. Fl Ind. ii, p 368 ; Banisteria bengalensis, Linn ; B unicap- 

 sularis, Lam. ; Rheed. Mai. vi, t. 59. Maratha name " Huludwail," 

 or yellow climber. Juss. Archives du Mus d'hist. Nat. iii, 500, 

 t. 16. Syn. Madablota Sounnerat voy. Ind. ii, t. 135; Banisteria 

 tetraptera, Roxb. Cor. t. 18, Lonn. loc. cit. ; Calophyllum akara, 

 Burni. Ind. 121 ; Luccowia fimbriata, Dennite. 



2 ASPIDOPTERYS, Juss. 



1. ROXBURGHANA, A. Juss. A climbing shrub with broadly 

 ovate acuminate shining leaves, smooth on both sides ; panicles 

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