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26. MUSS^NDA. 



1. FRONDOSA, Linn. sp. 231. A somewhat scandent shrup ; 

 leaves oval-acuminated ; flowers corymbose, terminal, of a deep 

 golden yellow, one of the calyx segments produced into a large 

 white oval leaf; fruit glabrous, obovoid. Hills in the Concan ; 

 very common, also on the Ghauts. Syn. M flavescens, Ham. in 

 Linn. Trans, xiv, p 203 ; M belilla, Ham. loc. cit. ; M glabra, Vahl. 

 Symb. iii, 38 ; M corymbosa, Roxb. Fl Ind. i, p 556 (?). 



LXXIV. GALIACE./E. 

 1. RUBIA, Tournef. 



1. CORDIFOLIA, Linn. Maut. p 197 A perennial herbaceous 

 climbing plant, stem rough ; leaves in fours, long-petioled, oblong 

 or ovate-acute, more or less cordate, 3 to 7-nerved, prickly on the 

 margins and middle nerve; panicles axillary, peduncled trichotomous, 

 corolla rotate, 4 to 3-parted ; fruit somewhat globose, didymous, 

 red or black. Common on the higher Ghauts. Syn. R munjista, 

 Roxb. Fl Ind. i, 374; R munjith, Desv. Jour. Bot. ii, 207. This 

 furnishes the Munjeet of commerce, or Indian Madder, an article 

 of export, but chiefly from Kelat through Sind. 



LXXV. COMPOSITE. 

 SUB-ORDER. T. VERNONIACEJE, Adenoon. 



1. INDICUM, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. ii, p 344. A branched, 

 erect plant, 1 foot high ; stem angular, scabrous, and hispid ; leaves 

 broad, elliptical-acute at both ends, coarsely serrated, glandular and 

 rough ; panicles of flowers corymbose ; flowers blue. Phoonda 

 Ghaut; flowers in September. No. 795 of Graham's Catalogue, 

 under Ethulia. Near Belgaum, Law. 



2. VERNONIA. 



1. CINEREA, Less, in Linn, p 291. Stem herbaceous, erect- 

 branched, rather hoary, with closely-set short hairs ; leaves petioled, 

 lowermost rounded, the others obovate-oblong, somewhat toothed, 

 rather hoary beneath ; corymb lax, dichotomous ; heads of flowers 

 peduncled ; involucre scales lanceolate linear-acuminated ; flowers 

 purple. A common weed. Syn. Conyza cinerea, Linn. 1208; 

 Serratula cinerea, Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, p 406 ; Conyza mollis, Willd. 

 sp. iii, p 1924. 



2. CONYZOIDES, DC. in Wight. Bot. Ind. ii, p 6. Stem erect, 

 herbaceous, striated, minutely pubescent beneath ; leaves ovate or 



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