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2. TODDALIA, Juss. 



1. ACULEATA, Pers. DC. Prod. 2, 83. A shrub or small tree 

 with prickly stem and branches ; leaves digitately trifoliolate ; leaflets 

 sessile, from oblong to broad lanceolate crenulate glabrous, pellucid 

 dotted ; racemes simple or compound axillary ; flowers small, white ; 

 fruit size of a small cherry, 5-furrowed, 3 to 5-celled ; has a pungent 

 taste like black pepper. IN ear tank at Kandalla ? ; Koomba Ghaut ; 

 abundant, Dr. Gibson ; inCanara; plentiful. Syn. T asiatica, Lam.; 

 T nitida, Lam ; T rubricaulis, Willd. ; Scopolia aculeata, Smith 

 Roxb. Fl Ind. i, 616; Paullinia asiatica, Linn.; Rheede Mai. v, t. 

 41. The bark of the root is employed as a cure in jungle inter- 

 mittent fevers, Roxb. The new genus Dipitalum, Dalz., found in 

 Canara, is, with good reason, supposed to be the Tuddalia bilocu- 

 laris of W. and A. Prod. 149. 



3. AILANTHUS, Desf. 



1. EXCELSA, Roxb. Fl Ind. ii, 450 ; Cor. t. 23. A tall tree; leaves 

 abruptly pinnated, young ones tomentose, older glabrous ; leaflets 

 coarsely toothed at the base; flowers fascicled in large-branched 

 terminal panicles, appear in January and February ; carpels sama- 

 roid, oblong compressed, membranaceous reticulated, swollen in 

 the middle. Common about Broach and Baroda, Lush ; Deccan, 

 Dr. Gibson; wood light, used for sword-handles ; of little use, 

 Roxb. ; Wight. Illust. Bot. i, t. 67. 



2. MALABARICA, DC. Leaves with the leaflets entire; fruit 

 broadly linear, rounded at both ends ; flowers small, white, in ter- 

 .minal racemes, appear in February and March. DC. Prod. 2, p 89 ; 

 Rheed. Mai. vi, t. 15. Ravines at Nagotna; Corondia, near 

 Kandalla ? Yields a resin from the bark. Common in Canara. 

 Canarese name " Muddhedoop." Punt Suchew's country , at 

 Oodhur Raneeshwur. 



XLVI. OCHNACE.E. 

 I. OCHNA, Linn. 



1. O NANA, Hamilton, in Wall, list 3761. A very small 

 shrub with narrow oblong lanceolate leaves, minutely serrulated, 

 shining ; flowers loosely pedicellate on axillary peduncles, rather 

 large and showy, bright-yellow. South Concan. During several 

 years in which Mr. Law and ourselves traversed the Concan in 

 all directions, we have not met with any other member of this 

 family, except this low shrub, two feet high at the most. Syn. O 

 moonii, Thwaite's Enum. ? 



