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XLIV. ZYGOPHYLLE^E 



1. TRIBULUS, Tournef. 



]. T TERRESTRIS, Linn. Ahumifuse procumbent plant; leaves 

 abruptly pinnate, opposite, stipuled ; leaflets 5 to 6 pair; peduncles 

 one-flowered, solitary, axillary ; flowers yellow ; fruit angular, 

 prickly. The Deccan, Guzerat, Kattywar. DC. Prod. 1, 704. 

 Belongs, with other species of the genus, to the desert flora. 

 " Gokhroo," Marathi and Hindoostanee. 



2. FAGONIA. 



1. F MYSORENSIS, Roth. nov. sp. 215. A sufTrutescent much- 

 branched plant ; leaves opposite, 2-stipuled, stipules often thorny, 

 one-foliolate ; leaflets linear cuspidate; stipules spinous, very sharp, 

 longer than the leaf; fruit capsular, 5-coccous, pubescent. Com- 

 mon in the Deccan. Wight lllust. i, t. 64. Has a fanciful repu- 

 tation as a suppurative in cases of abscess from thorns ; a drug in 

 the bazar, under the name of " Dumaso," used for cooling the 

 mouth. 



3. PEGANUM, Linn. 



1. HARMALA. Herbaceous plant, with multifid leaves, lobes 

 linear ; flowers white, terminal ; capsule spherical, 3-celled. Indapoor, 

 in the Poona Collectorate, also Beejapore ; apparently wild. Very 

 common in Sind, extending to the west coast of Africa ; capsules 

 sold in the bazar under the name of " Hurmaro." 



XLV. XANTHOXYLACE,E. 

 1. XANTHOXYLON, Linn. 



1. RHETSA, DC. Prod. 1, 728. A tree with prickles over every 

 part of it; bark corky; leaves equally pinnated; leaflets 8 to 16 

 pair, lanceolate, unequal-sided, entire, glabrous ; panicles terminal ; 

 capsule size of a pea, globose, 2-valved, opening at the apex. The 

 seed has a strong flavour of pepper ; flowers minute, yellow, appear 

 in November; fruit in February. Parr village, Twemlow ; Kandalla, 

 Arbuckle; at Banda, in the Warree country. Native name "Seesul." 

 Syn Fagara rhetsa, Roxb. Fl Ind. i, 417; Rheed. Mai. v, t. 34. 



2. TRIPHYLLUM, Juss. A small tree without prickles ; leaves 

 trifoliolate ; leaflets oblong, entire; flowers small, white, in axillary 

 panicles, appear in April and May ; capsule obovate, smooth, size 

 of a field-bean. Found all along the Ghauts. Syn. Fagara triphylla, 

 Linn. sp. PI. ed. Willd. i, 666 ; Roxb. Fl Ind. i, 416. The capsules 

 of X hastile are the Tejbul of the bazars, used for intoxicating fish. 



