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3. SANTALUM, Linn. 



1. S ALBUM, Linn. sp. p 497. A small tree, with ovate-elliptic 

 leaves, acute at the base, 1 .3 to 2J inches long; panicle of flowers 

 terminal and lateral, shorter than the leaf, its divisions 3-flowered ; 

 flowers small, purplish j berry size of a large pea, dark-purple, 

 shining. A native of the Southern Maratha Country, but planted 

 in gardens as far north as Gujarat, where it thrives well. This 

 yields the Sandal-wood of commerce ; all the other species of this 

 genus belong to Australasia. Found also in some Kooruns south- 

 west of Poona. 



CXVII. EL^EAGNACE^E. 



1. EL^EAGNUS, Linn. 



1. E. KOLOGA, Schlecht. in DC. Prod. 14, p 611. A large 

 climbing shrub ; branchlets densely covered with ferruginous, shin- 

 ing scales ; leaves elliptic, acute or obtuse, green and smooth 

 above along with the flowers, silvery and shining beneath ; flowers 

 axillary, pedicelled, deflexed, on short leafy branches ; fruit elliptic, 

 sive of an Olive, eatable. Common on the Ghauts. Syn. E con- 

 ferta, Graham's List; E latifolia, Wight Ic. 1856. Native names 

 " Nurgi" and " Ambgool." 



CXVIII. ARtSTOLOCHIACE^:. 



1. ARISTOLOCHIA, Tournef. 



1. A. ACUMINATA, Willd. iv, 157. Perennial, twining, smooth ; 

 leaves petioled, cordate entire, somewhat acuminate ; racemes 

 axillary, simple or compound, drooping, shorter than the leaves ; 

 petioles 1 inch long, slightly channelled ; corol with a funnel-shaped 

 tube, and long, linear, acute laminae; capsule pear-shaped, about 2 

 inches long, dehiscing, with 5 valves. Very rare ; we have seen 

 this on the banks of the Chapora River at Muneree, in the Warree 

 Country ; also on Parr Ghaut leading to Mahableshwur. 



2. A INDICA, Willd. iv, 157. Shrubby, twining; leaves peti- 

 oled, linear-wedgeformed or obovate, 3-nerved, pointed, waved 

 smooth, 2 to 4 inches long ; racemes axillary, shorter than the 

 leaves ; flowers erect, dark-coloured ; capsules oblong, pendulous. 

 Hills throughout the Concan, not very common. " Sampsun " 



3. A BRACTEATA, Retz. Obs. 80. Stem and branches weak, 

 trailing on the ground ; leaves reniform, glaucous ; flowers axillary, 

 solitary-peduncled ; peduncles furnished at the base with a kidney- 

 shaped, curled, sessile bract ; flowers of a dark-purple colour, hairy 



