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2. M CHAM^LEA, Juss. Erect, slender, and smooth, with 

 narrow-linear leaves. Common about Vingorla. 



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5. TRAGIA, Linn. 



1. T INVOLUCRATA, Willd. iv, 324. A perennial, twining plant, 

 the tender parts hairy ; leaves petioled, oblong, 3-nerved, pointed, 

 serrate, hairy ; stipules cordate ; racemes leal-opposed, ped uncled, 

 erect, 1 to 2 female flowers on each, with the calyx pinnatifid. 

 A formidable plant ; a sting from the hairs is very painful. In 

 shady places on the Ghauts, common. 



2. T CANNABINA, Willd. iv, 326. Shrubby, climbing, 4 to 5 

 feet high ; leaves petioled, 3-divided, serrate, hairy, 2 to 4 inches 

 long ; stipules half lanceolate ; racemes erect, many-flowered ; male 

 flowers numerous on the upper part of the raceme, very small, 

 yellow, each with three bracts ; female flowers beneath the male, 

 two on each raceme, with the calyx-leaflets pinnatifid. This plant 

 also stings like the Nettle. In hedges in Gujarat and the Deccan. 



6. ACALYPHA, Linn. 



1. A CILIATA, Willd. iv, 522. A common weed, annual; 

 leaves ovate-acuminate serrate ; spikes axillary, shorter than the 

 petioles ; involucres pectinated tomentose, one-flowered. 



2. A INDICA, Willd. iv, 523. An annual weed ; leaves 

 petioled, round-ovate, 3-nerved, serrate, smooth, minutely dotted, 

 2 inches long ; involucre cup-shaped, striated, smooth, toothed. 

 Wight Ic. 877; Rheed. Mai. x, t. 81, 83. 



7. MACARANGA, Thouars. 



1. M ROXBURGHII, Wight, under Ic. 1883. A small tree, with 

 entire peltate ovate-cordate leaves, 3-nerved, hairy beneath ; 

 petioles as long as the leaves ; panicles thin, axillary, erect ; flowers 

 minute ; filaments three, as long as the calyx ; capsule round, size 

 of a pea, fleshy, covered with clammy, waxy grains. Very common 

 in the Concan and Ghaut jungles. Syn. Osyris peltata, Roxb. Fl. 

 Ind. iii, p 755. Native name " Chanda." Wight Ic. 817. 



8. GIVOTIA, Griffith. 



1. ROTTLERIFORMIS, Griff., Wight. Ic. 1889. A small, ramous 

 tree ; leaves alternate-cordate, or somewhat lobed, clothed with 

 whfte stellate pubescence beneath, subglabrous above ; petioles often 

 furnished with 1 to "2 prominent glands ; panicles terminal ; flowers 

 congested or subcapitate on the ends of the ramuli ; pedicels 



