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L. TEREBINTHACE.E, p 51. 

 8. GARUGA, Roxb. 



1. G PINNATA, Roxb, Fl. Ind. ii, p 400. A rather large tree, 

 with pinnate leaves, which are deciduous in the cold weather ; 

 flowers panicled, yellowish-white, often covered with a mealy kind 

 of substance ; they appear in the hot weather ; fruit ^ size of a 

 gooseberry, eaten by the natives both raw and pickled ; it contains 

 from 1 to 5 one-seeded nuts. Native name " Koorak." Found in 

 many parts of the country, but nowhere in great quantity. The 

 timber is very inferior. 



LXVIIl. CRASSULACE^E, p 105. 



1. KALANCHOE, Adans. 



4. K OLIVACEA, Dalz. Stem 1 foot high, terete, somewhat 

 jointed, herbaceous ; leaves ovate or broad-lanceolate, cuneate at 

 the base, unequally crenate-serrate, fleshy, with the nerves im- 

 mersed, dotted with blood-red spots, 3k to 5 inches long, 1 to 2 

 inches broad ; upper leaves smaller; flowering branches from above 

 the leaves (supra-axillary) forming a cyme ; pedicels, calyx, and 

 flowers clothed with glandular viscid hairs ; calyx divided to the 

 base, segments lanceolate acuminate ; corol tube swelled at the 

 base, a half longer than the calyx, segments 4, ovate-oblong acute 

 mucronate, of a pale-pink colour, half the length of the tube, 

 twisted in aestivation; stamens 8, in "2 rows ; glands situated be- 

 hind each ovary at the base, linear bidentate ; ovaries 4, flask- 

 shaped, attenuated upwards ; ovules in four rows on the inner angle. 

 The whole plant is of an olive colour. Found only at Pandooghur, 

 and under the cliff at Paunchgunny, 



LXIX. UMBELLIFER^E, p 108. 



The fruit of Heracleum tomentosum having been since dis- 

 covered, it is found not to belong to that genus. 



LXXV. COMPOSITE, p 121. 

 2. VERNONIA, Linn. 



3. V ANTHELMINTICA, Willd. iii, 1634. A large, annual, erect 



species ; stem branched, terete, clouded with elevated purple 



spots, 2 to 3 feet high ; leaves petioled, broad-lanceolate, coarsely 



serrate, slightly downy, running down to the insertion of the 



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