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few, fascicled, or in a short raceme; drupe obovate, emarginate. 

 This \ve have not seen. Said by Graham to grow in the Concau, 

 and at Sewree Fort, Bombay. 



10. MORINDA, Vaill. 



1. M HRACTEATA, Roxb. Fl Ind. i, 544. A small tree, quite 

 glabrous ; leaves large, oval-oblong, pointed at both ends, shining ; 

 stipules broader than long, rounded ; heads of flowers short-pe- 

 duncle.d, leaf-opposed, solitary bracteate ; bracteas few, foliaceous ; 

 corolla Ion , infundibuliform, white ; berries concreted into a round- 

 ish smooth fruit. At Malwan and Vingorla. We have not seen 

 this species further north. 



2. iVI CITRIFOLIA, Linn. Somewhat arboreous, glabrous, 

 branchlets 4-angled ; leaves oval, attenuated at both ends, 

 shinir.ii; ; stipules membranaceous, obtuse ; heads of flowers short- 

 peduucled. without bracts; flowers white. Very common in 

 many places. Native name " Aal" or " Bartoondie." The roots 

 are med in dyeing. M tinctoria, Roxb. Fl Ind. i, 543. 



3. M TOMENTOSA, Heyne in Roth nov. sp. p 147. A small 

 tree ; young branches 4-angled, tomentose ; leaves roundish-ovate 

 acuminate, shortly tomentose on both sides ; stipules bifid ; pedun- 

 cles axillary, solitary, longer than the petiole, tomentose ; heads 

 without bracts, few flowers ; flowers white ; flowers in April. 

 Common in Concan, south of Poorundur Fort in the Deccan. 

 Syn. M mudia, Ham. in Linn. Trans, xiii, 536. 



11. VANGUERIA, Comm. 



1 . EDULIS, Vahl. Symb. iii, p 36. A small tree ; leaves ovate or 

 oblong, membranaceous, glabrous ; cymes helow the leaves from the 

 old cicatrices ; flowers greenish-white ; fruit round, smooth, size of 

 an apple, containing 5 one-seeded nuts; the flowers appear in the 

 cold weather. Common in the Concan and on the Ghauts. Syn. 

 V spinosa, Roxb. Fl Ind. i, 536 (?) ; V cymosa, Gaert. Fr. p 74, t. 

 193; V madagascariensis, Gmel. syst. ; V commersonii, Desf. ; 

 Vananga chinensis, Rottr. Native name " Aloo." Fruit is eaten, 

 but is by no means palatable. 



12. SANTIA, W. and A. 



1. VENULOSA, W. and A. Prod, p 422. Shrubby; branches 

 and young shoots glabrous ; leaves short-petioled, elliptic-oblong, 

 shortly-pointed, glabrous above, hirsute on the nerves beneath ; 

 veins numerous, transverse, prominent on the upperside ; peduncles 



