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11. I LATIFOLIA, Linn. sp. PL Smooth; leaves subopposite 

 or subverticelled, long-petioled, lanceolate or ovate lanceolate, acu- 

 minate, crenate serrate and bristly on the margin ; flowers large; 

 sepals small ovate cuspidate; lip acuminate concave; spur elongat- 

 ed, slender; vexillum reversely cuneate, horned. Syn, I cuspidata, 

 Wight and Arn. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. ii, 3'21 ; I bipartita, 

 Witrht and Arn. loc. cit. i, 322; 1 floribunda, Wight in Madr. Jour. 



, p 7. Concan common. 



12. I BALSAMINA, Linn. Willd. sp. PI i, 1175, A weed, herba- 

 ceous, erect, simple ; leaves alternate petioled, glabrous, acuminated 

 at both ends, acutely and often deeply serrated ; petioles glanduli- 

 ferous ; pedicels 1 to 2 or more aggregate shorter than the leaves ; 

 lateral sepals minute lanceolate, anterior one pubescent, infundibuli- 

 form with a slender spur; capsule ovate, tomentose, and hairy. 

 Very common; the double varieties are often of great beauty. 



13. SCABRIUSCULA, Heyiie in Roxb. Fl Ind. ed. Wall, ii, 464. 

 Low, erect, branched, pubescent and tomentose ; leaves few, shortly- 

 petioled, lanceolate acuminate serrate ; pedicels short ; sepals very 

 small ; lip boat-shaped, tomentose ; spur none. Allied to I balsa- 

 mina, but much smaller, leaves broader, and lip without a spur. The 

 South Concan. 



14. I PULCHKRRIMA, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. ii, p 37. Stem 

 erect, glabrous ; leaves alternate long-petioled ovate acuminated, 

 crenate serrated ; serratures bristly, somewhat roughish above, glau- 

 cous and quite smooth beneath ; petioles glandular towards the 

 apex ; pedicels axillary, 2 to 3 together, one-flowered, half the length 

 of the leaf; flowers large, rose-coloured, 2| inches in diameter; the 

 petals divided to near the base; the lobes cuneate obovate; fruit 

 bearing pedicels erect, drooping at the apex ; spur 2 inches long, 

 filiform. Shady jungles in the Warree country ; flowers in August. 

 Hook Bot. Mag. 4615. 



XLIII. PITTOSPORACE.E. 

 1. P1TTOSPORUM, Banks. 



1. FLORIBUNDUM, W. and A. Prod, p 154. A small tree ; leaves 

 thinly coriaceous, elliptic lanceolate, glabrous, margins waved ; 

 racemes terminal, compact, many-flowered; flowers white, small; 

 capsule 2-valved, compressed, 3 to 4-seeded, size of a pea. All 

 along the range of the Ghauts. The clubs of the Australians are 

 made of the wood of P bicolor. Syn. Celastrus v.erticillata, Roxb. 

 Fl Ind. i, 624; Senacia nepalensis, DC. Prod. 1, 367. Maratha 

 name " Yekuddy." P zeylanicum, Wight Illust. i, 173. 



