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2. NIGRICANS, Br. Shrubby, glabrous; leaves oblong-lanceo- 

 late, shining on both sides, turns black in drying ; corymbs 

 trichotomous, large, open; flowers white, lax, one inch long; 

 berries globose. Very common in thick-shaded jungles of the 

 Ghauts. " Katkoora" of the Marathas. 



3. PARVIFLORA, Vahl. Symb. iii, p 2, t. 52. A small erect- 

 growing tree ; leaves short-petioled, from linear-oblong to cuneate- 

 obovate, coriaceous, and hard shining corymbs and panicles, terminal 

 trichotomous ; flowers very small, numerous, white or pink. Common 

 on the Ghauts. This makes excellent firewood. Syn. I arborea, 

 Smith in Ree's Cycl. ; I pavetta, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 78 ; 1 decipiens, 

 DC. Prod. 4, 4H8. Native name " Koorat ;" makes good torches. 



4. I PEDUNCULATA, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. iii, p 121. A 

 shrub ; leaves shortly-petioled, elliptic, coriaceous, glabrous ; stipules 

 triangular, shortly cuspidate ; panicle terminal trichotomous, small, 

 lax, terminating a long naked peduncle ; flowers numerous, small, 

 pink. Near Parwar Ghaut, Kala Kooda, and Beemasunker ; 

 flowers in February. 



9. CANTHIUM, Lam. 



1. C UMBELLATUM, Wight Ic. 1034. A most beautiful tree, 

 with dark-green, oval, coriaceous leaves ; young branches 4-sided ; 

 flowers axillary, white, umbelled on the apex of a short, stout 

 peduncle ; fruit obovate, didymous, warted, size of a large pea. 

 Pretty common in stony places above the Ghauts, and very 

 ornamental. The wood is close-grained, of a light-chocolate colour, 

 but black in the centre. Native name " Ursool." 



2. C LESCHENAULTII, W. and A. Prod, p 426. Shrubby, 

 climbing ; old branches armed with short supra-axillary thorns ; 

 young shoots long, slender, often unarmed; petioles shortish-twisted;, 

 leaves opposite, or 3 to 4-verticillate, oblong, much acuminate, acute 

 at the base ; cymes axillary, short-peduncled, 3 to 5-flowered ; 

 segments of the corolla linear-lanceolate acuminate, reflexed ; 

 drupe obcordate, black when ripe. At Moolus, foot of Ram 

 Ghaut. Wight Ic. 826. 



3. C PARVIFLORUM, Lam. Shrubby, usually with opposite 

 horizontal thorns a little above the axils, sometimes unarmed ; leaves 

 ovate glabrous, often fascicled on the young shoots ; racemes 

 short, axillary, few-flowered ; drupe obovate, slightly emarginate, 

 compressed, furrowed on each side, ripe in July. Ghauts between 

 Belgaum and Nepanee, Deccan ; rare. Native name " Keernee." 



4. C RHEEDEI, DC. Prod, iv, p 474. Shrubby, armed with 

 supra-axillary thorns ; branches hirsute ; leaves ovate or oval- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, upperside shining, under with a tuft of 

 hairs in the axils of the nerves ; flowers axillary, shortly-pedicelled, 



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