117 



teeth, dehiscing only within the calyx, 4 to 6-seeded. Phoonda 

 Ghaut ; flowers in September. 



10. H SENEGALENSIS, Cham, and Sclmlt. in Linn. 1 H29, p 156. 

 One foot high ; leaves linear, floral ones subulate ; stipules with 2 

 bristles ; flowers shortly-pedicelled near the apex of the branches, 

 distant, few ; lobes of corolla lanceolate ; flowers of a dingy white. 

 Barren places in the Deccan ; flowers rather smaller than those of 

 African specimens ; we have found this in the province of Lus, near 

 Sonmeanee. Syn. Kohautia senegalensis, DC. Prod. 4, p 430. 



16. OPHIORHIZA, Linn. 



1. HARRISONII, Wall. Herbaceous; stems, petiole, peduncles, 

 and nerves on the leaves, beneath pubescent; leaves ovate or 

 roundish-ovate, acutish, green above, pale beneath ; peduncles 

 terminal, corymbose, and dichotomously branched at the apex. 

 Wight Ic. 1 162. Ram Ghaut. 



17. WENDLANDIA, Bartl. 



1. NOTONIANA, W. and A. Prod, p 403. A shrub, young 

 shoots hirsute ; leaves petioled, oblong, upperside glabrous, under 

 glaucous, and subpubescent ; stipules triangular ovate, branches of 

 the panicle hirsute; flowers numerous, crowded, white, forming 

 interrupted spikes, delightfully fragrant. Ram Ghaut and Warree 

 country, common; flowers in January arid February. Banks of the 

 Yeena, Mahableshwur. Syn. W. thyrsoidea, Roth. nov. sp. p 149; 

 Canthium thyrsoideum, Rcem. and Sclmlt. v, 207 ; Cupia thyrsoidea, 

 DC. Prod. iv, 394. Quoina river banks ; Northern Ghauts, rare. 



18. HYMENODICTYON,Wall. 



1. OBOVATUM, Wall. A large tree; leaves obovate acuminate, 

 glabrous ; stipules ovate-acute, floral leaves lanceolate, coloured, 

 bullate ; panicles racemed, slender, scarcely branched ; flowers small, 

 inconspicuous, greenish ; flowers in July. Island of Caranjah, Ram 

 Ghaut, &c. Syn. Cinchona obovata, Spr. syst. Suppl. p 73. 

 Native name " Kurwei." Ghaut jungles, common. 



2. EXCELSUM, Wall, in Roxb. Fl Ind. ii, p 149. Arboreous; 

 leaves from oblong to roundish-ovate, pubescent ; stipules cordate, 

 floral leaves oblong, bullate, coloured ; panicles terminal and axillary ; 

 flowers fascicled, small, greenish-white, fragrant. The bark is 

 bitter and astringent, hence the native name " Kurwah." Along 

 the Ghauts. The wood is firm, close-grained, and very useful. 

 The bark of these has none of the properties of their congeners. 

 Roxb. Syn. Cinchona excelsa, Roxb. Fl Ind. i, 529. 



