352 fiXUMEUATIOJf OF PLANTS. 



the seeds to increase tlie intoxicating powers of 

 their common spirituous liquors. The capsules 

 tliey use as a suppuiative. Datura is also the name 

 of this plant, inmost parts oi' Ilimlustan; and pro- 

 bably has been carried from the east, to the av'Cs- 

 tem M'orld. 



Ehretia T'lmjol'ia. — Found both above and below the 

 ghauts — grows to a pretty large tree, now in flower, 

 ripens its fruit about the end ol Ma\j. The berry 

 is about the size of a pepper corn, one celled, four 

 seeded, of an orange yellow insipidly sweet. The 

 natives pickle the unripe berries in vinegar, and 

 eat with their common food. 



Vttitilago. — Leaves alternate, pctioled, two faced, ob- 

 long-ovate, acuminated, slightly serrated, serra- 

 tu res wide, unequal: petioles very short, cylindri- 

 cal, doM'ny. Panicles terminal, peduncles, downy. 

 This plant climbs over other trees with a strong 

 contorted stem. The natives of the mountains ap- 

 jdy the bark in a green state, to many useful pur- 

 poses, as cordage. 



Ctlastnis Scandals 1.- — In most of the forests about 

 Ilurdzcar, and vallies above the ghauts. 



Ctla^trus 2. — Leaves alternate, petioled, subrotund, 

 acuminated, serrulate, smooth. Branches slender, 

 cylindrical, spotted. Flov.ers, in terminal dicho- 

 tomous, panicles, very small, pale green. Grows 

 to a small tree — in the valley about Dosah and 

 GJtlnouhf. 



Ccdrela. — The tree commonly called Toon, described 

 by Sir William Jones, in A. R. vol. IV, page 

 C81, is found in the forests bordering the moun- 

 tains below the ghauts. Grows to a tall tree, but 

 seldom of considerable thickness. Is more in es- 

 teem for household furniture by Europeans, than 

 for any use the natives put it to; bears resemblance 

 to mah.ogany, but of much coarser fibre. 



Doubtful genus coming nearest loHlrtelUi. — A small 

 tree on the verge of a rivulet, a few miles S. W. of 

 Sirinagur, near the road. Leaves diffuse, petioled, 

 ovate, entire smooth. Petioles lon^,. cylindrical, 



highly 



