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alternate, ovate-obtuse, glabrous ; racemes 1 to 2, axillary, as long or 

 longer than the leaves, simple ; flowers pedicelled ; flower-bud 

 sharply 4-angled ; petals 4, linear ; berry nearly globose. Rotunda 

 Ghaut, Mahableshwur ; flowers in May, 



6. LONICEROIDES, Linn sp. p 473. Glabrous; branches terete, 

 young ones slightly '2-edo'ed ; leaves ovate or oblong-lanceolate 

 acuminated ; peduncles axillary, solitary, opposite to the petiole, 

 bearing at the apex a few sessile flowers; bracts 3 at the base of 

 each ovary, roundish acute concave; corolla tubular, curved, equally 

 6-cleft ; segments cuneate, linear, spreading. Island of Caranjah ; 

 the Cancans. Syn. L coriaceus, Desv. ; L umbellatus, Heyne in 

 Roth. nov. sp. p 192. 



7. BUDDLEOIDES, Desv, in Encyc. Meth.iii, p 600. Branches 

 terete, glabrous ; young shoots sometimes tomentose ; leaves from 

 elliptic to cordate-ovate, thinnish, firm, at first furfuraceous on the 

 underside ; peduncles axillary crowded, very short, few -flowered ; 

 flower-bud clavate; fruit turbinate. On Asanna and Kurmul trees, 

 at Kandalla ; flowers in February and March. Syn. L scurrula, 

 Roxb. Fl Ind. i, 550 ; L Heynei, DC. Prod, iv, p 300. 



8. LONGIFLORUS, Desv. loc. cit. p 498. Glabrous; leaves usu- 

 ally opposite, sometimes alternate, from linear to oblong-lanceolate 

 or ovate-obtuse ; racemes axillary, solitary or in pairs, simple, many- 

 flowered, much shorter than the leaves ; bractes concave oblique ; 

 close to the ovary ; corolla long inf'undibuliform curved ; segments 

 5, linear recurved, one of the fissures deeper than the others ; 

 flowers greenish-white. The commonest species in the Concan ; 

 extends into Guzerat. Syn. L, bicolor, Roxb, Cor. t. 139; Fl hid. 

 i, 54s ; L krenigianus, Ao-ardh in Schult. syst. vii, p 108. 



9. L LAGENIFKHUS, Wight I.e. 3U6 Glabrous ; branches terete; 

 leaves opposite petioled, elliptic, oblong-obtuse, rounded at the base ; 

 peduncles fascicled, having at the apex a large campanulate 4 to 5- 

 lobed involucrum, inside of which are 4 to 5 flowers. This curious 

 species, which is pretty common on the higher hills, extends 

 to Malabar. 



10. L CUNEATUS, Heyne; Wight Ic. t. 305. Covered with a 

 grey pubescence when young ; branches terete ; leaves alternate 

 or fascicled in pairs, narrow-oblong or obovate-obtuse, cuneate at 

 the base ; umbels peduncled ; flowers 2 to 5, shortly-pedicelled, 

 clothed with short tomentum ; corol tubular, 5-cleft; segments linear. 

 Par war Ghaut and Tullawarree. Syn. L goodeniiflorus and Can- 

 dolleanus, W. and A. Prod. Found also at Gondabyle. 



3. VISCUM, Tournef. 



1 V ANGULATUM, Heyne. Leafless ; stems and older branches 

 terete or obscurely many-angled, dichotomous, younger ones 



