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12. TREWIA, Linn. 



1. T NUDIFLORA, Willd. iv, 834. A rather large tree, with 

 opposite cordate-acuminate leaves, something like those of the 

 Bendy tree; mate flowers in pendulous racemes, the female 

 solitary ; fruit a berry, 3 to 4-celled. Very plentiful at Banda, 

 in the Warree Country ; also at Bassein ; between Nagotna and the 

 Pass leading to Indapore. The native name is " Petaree," as 

 stated by Graham. " Petaree" is also the Rottlera dicocca ; Wight 

 Ic. 1870-71; Rheed. Mai. i, t. 42. 



13. ADELIA, Linn. 



1. A NERIIFOLIA, Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, 849. A dioecious shrub, 

 2 to 3 feet high ; leaves alternate, linear-lanceolate, willow-like ; 

 spikes of flowers red, axillary, solitary, slender. Common in the 

 beds of rivers along with Trichaurus ericoides. Wight Ic. 1868. 



2. A RETUSA, J. Graham Cat. p 185. A low shrub; leaves 

 alternate, sessile, obovate-cuneate, retuse, slightly crenate ; flowers 

 axillary, 2 to 3 together ; stamens very numerous. The flowers 

 appear in March and April. Pretty common in the beds of the 

 Deccan rivers. Wight Ic. 1869; male only. 



14. CROTON, Linn. 



1. C UMBELLATUM, Willd. A shrub, 5 to 6 feet high; leaves 

 ovate oblong-acuminate, entire, glabrous on both sides; flowers 

 terminal, small, white, umbelled. Chorla Ghaut ; flowers in the 

 cold weather. Wight Ic. 1874. 



2. C HYPOLEUCOS, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. iii, 123. Small 

 tree, monoecious; branches, petioles, and rachis covered with fer- 

 ruginous tomentum ; leaves elliptic, acute at both ends, entire, 

 long-petioled, covered sparingly above and densely beneath with 

 white, stellate, silvery scales, and having 2 to 4 stipitate glands 

 at the base ; racemes axillary and terminal, as long as the leaves ; 

 male flowers numerous, above ; female few, below. In shady jun- 

 gles on the Concan Hills. Native name " Panduray." We do not 

 think that this differs from the C bicolor of Roxb. (Fl. Ind. iii, p 

 680), who says it is a native of Sumatra. 



3. C OBLONGIFOLIUM, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii, p 685. Arboreous ; 

 leaves large, oblong, serrate, obtuse-pointed, smooth on both sides, 

 2-glanded at the base ; racemes terminal, generally solitary, erect, 

 shorter than the leaves ; flowers male and female mixed, small, of a 

 pale-greenish colour ; capsule globular, fleshy, six-furrowed, tricoc- 

 cous. Southern Concan, rare; in the fort of Banda. Native name 

 " Gunsoor." Used medicinally by the natives to reduce Swellings. 



