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4. C GIBSONIANUS, Nimmo in Grab. Cat. p 251. A tree, 15 

 feet high, with smooth, whitish bark ; leaves oval-acuminate entire, 

 of a yellowish-green, sometimes reddish ; inflorescence in lateral 

 spikes ; male flowers below the female ; calyx 5-divided, that of 

 the female flower larger and increasing with the fruit ; capsule 

 greenish-yellow when ripe, of the size of a cherry ; seeds spotted, 

 not unlike those of the Castor Oil plant. Hurrychunder and hills 

 of Alun, and Koorun near Nassick. Used as a remedy for 

 Rheumatism. 



5. C LAWIANUS, Nimmo loc. cit. A small tree, with oblong- 

 lanceolate, coriaceous, smooth leaves, larger than the preceding, 

 4 to 5 inches long ; capsule spherical, trilobate, nearly an inch in 

 diameter, smooth, surrounded by the enlarged foliaceous wax-like 

 calyx leaves. Beemasunker, Meera Hills, &c. 



15. AGROSTISTACHYS, Dalz. 



1. A INDICA, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. ii, p 41. A rare 

 shrub, rising to the height of 5 to 6 feet ; leaves alternate, petioled, 

 oblong, long-acuminated at both ends, serrate-dentate, smooth, 12 

 to 15 inches long; male flowers in grass-like spikelets, above the 

 axils, small ; female flowers on a separate bush, solitary, pedicelled ; 

 capsule 3-celled; seeds solitary, of the size of a pea. Near 

 Tulkut Ghaut. 



16. BALIOSPERMUM, Blume. 



1. B POLYANDRUM, Wight Ic. 1885. Suffruticose ; leaves 

 large, oval, often lobed, toothed or coarsely and remotely serrated ; 

 spikes axillary, about the length of the petioles, 1 to 2 ; female 

 flowers at their base ; anther cells transverse ; ovary 3-celled ; style 

 deeply 3-cleft ; capsule hispid. Northern hills of Caranjah ; Ghauts 

 to the north of Braminwara range ; Kotool. Syn. Croton poly- 

 andrum, Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, 682. This is the " Jumalgota" of the 

 native druggists ; one seed is a dose for an adult. 



17. CROZOPHORA, Necker. 



1. C PLICATA. An annual, erect plant, having a hoary ap- 

 pearance ; leaves 2 1 inches long, petioled, broad-cordate, waved, 

 sublobate ; racemes terminal, few-flowered ; petals elliptic, covered 

 with stellate scales on the outside, and 3 lines of white hairs on the 

 inside ; capsule rough. Common in fields in the Raighur Talooka, 

 Deccan and Gujarat in the cold weather. Syn. C tinctorium, 

 Burm. ; bark very tough. 



