ON SELECT INDIAN PLANTS. 2,$l 



bright yellow and pale red. Bracts linear - y fV'mgs 

 of the seed light brown ; the long one russet. 

 Leaves opposite, egg oblong, pointed. Petioh 

 short. Stipules linear, soft, three or four to each 

 petiol. Two glands at the base of each leaf. Stem 

 pale brown, ringed at the insertion of the leaves, 

 downy. 



This was the favourite plant of Sacontala, 

 which she very justly called the Delight of the 

 /Foods ; for the beauty and fragrance of its flowers 

 give them a title to all the praises which Ca'lida's 

 and Jayade'va bestow on them: it is a gigantic 

 and luxuriant climber ; but, when it meets with no- 

 thing to grasp, it assumes the form of a sturdy tree, 

 the highest branches of which display, however, in 

 the air their natural flexibility and inclination to climb. 

 The two names, Fdsanfi and Mddhav), indicate a 

 vernal flower ; but I have seen an Atimucta rich both 

 in blossoms and fruit on the first oi January* 

 46. 'Anira'taca : 

 Syn. Pi' tana, Capita fid, 

 Vulg. Amda, pronounced Amra, or Amid* 

 Linn. Spondias Myrohalan @. or a new species. 



The natural character as in Linn/eus. Leaves 

 feathered with an odd one ; leaflets ', mostly five pair- 

 ed, egg-oblongs pointed, margined, veined, nerved ; 

 commoji petiol smooth, gibbous at the base. Flowers 

 raceme-panicled, yellowish white. Fruit agreeably 

 acid; thence used in cookery. Van Rheede calb 

 it Ambadb or Ambalam; and, as he describes it with 

 jive or six styles, it is wonderful that Hill should 

 have supposed it a Chrvsobalanus. 



U 2 47. He'ma* 



