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and glutinous, 5-seeded. On Chorla Ghaut and in the Soonda 

 Jungles; fruit ripe in March. Indigenous also in Silhet. DC. Prod. 

 8, 162. Syn. C acuminatum, Roxb. Fl Ind. i, 599. Native name 

 " Tursiphui" (?). 



2. SAPOTA, Plum. 



1. TOMENTOSA, DC. Prod. 8, 175. A tree, frequently armed 

 with blunt thorns ; leaves oval, undulated, bluntly acuminated, young 

 ones covered with tawny tomentum ; flowers numerous fascicled, 

 axillary, of a dull white, appear in February and March ; berry 

 ovate, size of an olive. Common along the higher Ghauts. 

 Sambre are fond of the fruit, Dr. Gibson. Syn. Sideroxylon 

 tomentosum, Roxb. Fl Ind. i, 602. Native name " Kanta Koomla" 

 or " Koombul." 



3. ISONANDRA, Wight. 



1. CANDOLLIANA, R. Wight Ic. 1220. Arboreous ; leaves 

 obovate oblong ; bluntly acuminate, tapering at the base, glabrous 

 beneath ; flowers rather small, axillary, sessile ; corolla deeply 

 4-clef't ; lobes emarginate, much longer than the stamens. On 

 the Ghauts, not uncommon. The famous Gutta-percha tree belongs 

 to this genus. 



4. BASSIA, Kcenig. 



1. B LONGIFOLIA, Linn. Maut. p 563. A large tree; leaves 

 lanceolate, acute at both ends ; petioles slightly villous ; pedicels 

 half the length of the leaf, suberect ; corolla 8 to 9-divided ; stamens 

 16 to 20, in a double series. Confined entirely to the southern 

 limits in the latitude of Dharwar ; in Canara, common. 



2. B ELLIPTICA, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. iii, p 36 (1851). 

 A tree ; leaves elliptic or elliptic-obovate, shortly and obtusely acu- 

 minate, coriaceous, smooth on both sides ; pedicels axillary, twin or 

 tern, 3 to 4 times longer than the petiole, in fruit erect ; filaments in 

 one series, those opposite the corol lobes are in pairs, those alternate 

 with them single; fruit oblong, smooth, along with the preceding. 

 This tree has been found to yield a kind of Gutta-percha; the date 

 of publication has been mentioned, because in a pamphlet on this 

 tree, published by Dr. Cleghorn in 1858, that gentleman states that 

 he could find no account of it, and that he believed the tree was 

 unknown to naturalists. 



3. LATIFOLIA, Roxb. Fl Ind. ii, 526. A large tree, branched 

 like an oak ; leaves elliptic-oblong or oval, membranaceous, sub- 

 acute, 4 to 8 inches long ; pedicels about the apex of branchlets, 

 subumbellate, reflexed, covered with tawny tomentum; berry oblong, 

 of the size of a small apple, 1 to 4-seeded. The Concans ; much 



