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3. SONERILA, Roxb. 



1. S. SCAPIGERA, Hook, in Jour. Bot. vii, p 672 ; Ic. t. 23. A 

 plant, 3 to 4 inches high, stemless, quite smooth ; leaves radical 

 cordate, serrate, long-petioled ; flowering scapes as long as the 

 leaf; pedicels umbellate-racemose, longer than the flower; calyx 

 segments 3, triangular-acute ; petals obovate-acute ; stamens as 

 long as the style. The Ghauts near Bombay; flowers in the rains. 



4. MEMECYLON, Linn. 



1. M EDULE, Roxb. Cor. PI i, t. 82. Arborescent; branches 

 terete; leaves shortly-petioled, ovate or oblong, or elliptic-lanceolate, 

 I -nerved; peduncles axillary, and below the leaves on the older 

 branches; flowers conglomerated, of a beautiful purple; fruit 

 globose, crowned with the 4-toothed limb of the calyx ; 1 to 2-seeded. 

 Common along the higher Ghauts. Native name " Anjun." Wood, 

 known by the name of " Kurpa," very strong. Syn. M tinctorium, 

 Kcenig. ; M heyneanum, Benth. ; Wight Ic. t. 278. 



2. M TERMINALE, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot Hi, 121. A shrub, 

 2 to 3 feet high ; branches dichotomous, slender, terete ; leaves 

 sessile, lanceolate-acuminate ; peduncles axillary and terminal, 

 solitary, half inch long; flowers umbelled ; pedicels half the length 

 of the peduncle ; fruit globose, dry unilocular, of the size of a large 

 pea. On the Southern Ghauts. Perhaps the smallest of the Indian 

 species. 



LIX. MYRTACE^E. 



1. SYZYGIUM, Gaertn. 



1. S JAMBOLANUM, DC. Prod. 3, 259. -7- A large handsome tree, 

 with whitish bark ; leaves oval or oblong, feather-nerved, coriaceous ; 

 cymes panicled-lax, usually lateral on the former year's branches, 

 occasionally axillary or terminal ; calyx shortly turbinate, truncated ; 

 berry olive-shaped, often oblique. Syn. S caryophyllifolium, DC. 

 loc. cit. A very common tree. "Jambool," Maratha. The tim- 

 ber is excellent for building ; the astringent bark yields an extract 

 like the gum " Kino" of Malabar, and the fruit is a favourite 

 food of the flying-foxes, and is much eaten by the poorer classes. 



2. S CARYOPHYLLJEUM, Gaert. A small tree; leaves obovate- 

 obtuse, or suddenly acuminated, somewhat coriaceous, incon- 

 spicuously dotted ; cymes of small white flowers, corymbose, 

 trichotomous, terminal ; fruit globose, 1 -seeded. Southern Concan ; 

 always on the banks of streams, also on the Ghauts. Wight Ic. t. 

 540. The berries are eaten in Ceylon. 



