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lets tomentose ; leaves small (2 inches long) elliptic-obovate, or 

 oblong-obtuse, pubescent above, tomentose beneath ; male flowers 

 axillary fascicled (3 to 6) ; calyx 4-divided, divisions ovate, pube- 

 scent on the outside ; corolla scarcely twice the length of the calyx, 

 4-lobed ; female flowers solitary sessile, with 8 anthers ; stigmas 4, 

 bifid ; ovary glabrous, 8-celled, anthers in the male flowers 16, in 

 unequal pairs, a 4-lobed rudimul in the centre ; anthers dehiscing, 

 on each side of the apex; flowers small, white, appear in the 

 beginning of June. Common about Surat, on the north side, also in 

 IN assick Districts ; fruit size of a large pea. Syn. D capitulata, 

 Wight Ic. 1224 and 15H8 (?). Native name " INinei" ; fruit eatable. 



2. PANICULATA, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. iv, p 109. Arbo- 

 reous, branches glabrous ; leaves lanceolate-oblong, obtusely acumi- 

 nated, short-petioled, coriaceous, glabrous; male flowers numerous, 

 panicled in the axils of the fallen leaves ; panicles shorter than the 

 leaf, with the buds and pedicels sooty velvetty ; calyx 5-divided, 

 segments foliaceous, reticulately veined, broadly oval-obtuse ; corolla 

 sooty and velvetty outside, twice as long as the calyx, the 5 divi- 

 sions oblong-obtuse, as long as the tube ; female flowers lateral 

 solitary, with their pedicels as long as the petiole ; female calyx 

 increasing with the fruit ; fruit ovoid, densely tomentose, included 

 in the enlarged calyx. Chorla Ghaut and Raighur ; flowers in the 

 cool season. 



3. PRURIENS, Dalz. Inc. cit. Branchlets softly hairy; leaves 

 narrow -oblong, acuminate, subsessile, hirsute on both sides; male 

 flowers twin, on an axillary peduncle, 3 times longer than the 

 petiole ; female flowers, axillary and lateral solitary, subsessile ; 

 fruit ovoid-conical, densely clothed with fulvous stinging hairs, 

 the size of a large cherry. Grows in the same place as the 

 preceding. 



4. NIGRICANS, Dalz. loc. cit. Arboreous; leaves oblong or 

 lanceolate-acuminated, membranaceous, glabrous, 4 inches long; 

 male flowers in threes, sessile, on the apex of a very short peduncle ; 

 calyx villous turbinate, the limb 4-divided, divisions ovate-acute, 

 ciliated, spreading; corolla glabrous, with a short tube, divisions 

 narrow-linear, 3 to 4 lines longer than the tube ; stamens 26, in 

 twos, threes, or fours ; female flowers not seen. Chorla Ghaut. 



5. GOINDU, Dalz. loc. cit. Arboreous ; leaves ovate oblong, 

 rounded or truncate at the base, obtuse at the apex, glabrous, 

 shortly-petioled ; male flowers in threes, on an axillary peduncle as 

 long as the petiole; female flowers axillary, solitary; calyx 4- 

 divided, the divisions short, rounded, glabrous ; corolla urceolate, 

 segments of the limb 4, rounded ; stamina 16; fruit globose, size of 

 a cherry, yellow when ripe; flowers in April to June; allied to D 

 cordifolia, Roxb. Common on the Ghauts. No. 830 of Graham's 



