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long-petioled, 3 to 5-foliolate ; leaflets elliptic or ovate-oblong, 

 shortly and obtusely acuminated, attenuated into the petiole, entire 

 subcoriaceous, shining and glabrous above ; cymes axillary, long- 

 ped uncled ; corymbose, many-flowered ; lower lip of corolla densely 

 woolly; drupe large, obovate, black when ripe. Warree Country ; 

 flowers in February. Southern Concan, Kandalla, Southern 

 Maratha Country. Native name " Sherus." Syn. Wall. Rothia 

 leucoxylon; Roth. nov. sp. 317, Deccan, rare. 



CV. QBOBANCHACEm 



1. PHELIP^EA, Tournef. 



1. P INDICA, G. Don syst. iv. p 632. Scape simple or 

 branched, with scales here and there ; calyx 4-toothed ; teeth 

 lanceolate-subulate from a broad base ; corol tubular, infundibuli- 

 form, curved, purple, widened in the throat ; flowers spiked, terminal, 

 parasitic. On Tobacco plants in Deccan and Guzerat; found also 

 in the Caucasus, whence it may have come with Tobacco plants 

 originally. Syn. Orobanche indica, Roxb. Fl Ind. in, p 27. 



2. ^EGINETIA, Linn. 



1. M INDICA, Roxb. Cor. PI. 1, p 63, t. 91. Scape simple 

 elongated, naked, bearing at its apex a large, curved, purple flower, 

 something like a tobacco-pipe ; calyx spathe-like, lax, split in front, 

 acute. Parasitic on the roots of bushes. Kandalla, Salsette, &c. 

 Wight Ic. 895. 



3. CHRISTISONIA, Wight. 



1. C STOCKSII, Hook. Ic. PL v ix, t. 836. Scape thick, 

 fleshy, imbricately scaly; scales broadly ovate, concave-obtuse ; 

 flowers racemose ; pedicels elongated, erect, without bracts; calyx 

 tubular, cylindric ; limb 5-divided ; lobes triangular, rather obtuse ; 

 corolla pubescent, of a bluish-white colour; the lobes spreading 

 and rounded. Parasitic on the roots of Strobilanthes ; flowers in 

 the rains. Salsette. Syn. C calcarata, Wight Ic. 1426. 



2. C. LAWII, Wight' Ic. 1427. Scape thick, fleshy, irregularly 

 shaped ; base of the subsessile flowers ebracteolate, embraced by a 

 few loose scales ; calyx tubular, 5-toothed, regular ; corol tubular, 

 twice the length of the calyx, lobes suborbicular ; flowers large, 

 pale- purple, with yellow spots. Salsette and between the Ram 

 Ghaut and Belgium; flowers in August. 



