S64 ENUMERATION OF PLANTS 



alternate. Petioles thorny, pinnated, from three 

 to five pair of leaflets with an odd one, ovate, 

 pointed, smooth, serrated. Germ ovate, smooth. 

 Peduncles hispid. Flowers pure white, in great 

 profusion, and highly fragrant, resembling in 

 smell the clove. Very large bushes of this rose 

 are found in the vallics of these mountains, called 

 by the natives Koonja. 



Huhus. — Numerous straggling bushes, found most 

 part of the way between Cuadwara ghat and S'm- 

 nagiir, producing yellow fruit the size of the com- 

 mon red raspberry, of an agreeable acidulated sweet, 

 and which atfords a most acceptable means of re- 

 lieving the thirsty traveller. The stems, branches, 

 and petioles, are very hispid, and armed with short 

 recur vated prickles. Racemes terminal. Flowers 

 white. Leaves alternate. Leaflets ovate, pointed, 

 serrated. Called by the natives Goxcry-plmL 



Rtibus Idaeus. — Found in oak forests, a few miles 

 S. W. oi' S/rinag?n\ and in the valley o^ Slrinagnr. 

 Flowers of a pink red. Fruit, agreeable to the 

 tast^, but pos^scssing, in a very small degree, the 

 flavor of cultivated raspberry. The stems and 

 branches smooth, armed with strong recurvated 

 prickles, as also the common petiole. Leaflets, 

 tiom three to five j)air, with an odd one. Sessile 

 ovate, deeply serrated, white beneath. 



Fragaria Stcrilis. — On the sides of those mountains 

 which are much shaded, and soil rich. 



Pofentilla J ragarioides. — On the mountains about 

 Nataana. 



FolaitUla reptaii.H. — On the high ridge near CJudwoa. 



POLYANDRIA MONOGYKIA. 



Lagcrstroemia Montana^ Roxburgh. — lliis tree 

 grows to sixty or seventy feet high. Stem straight, 

 thick, and clear of branches to a great height 

 (forty feet). FloM'crs with much beauty in the 

 month o{' May. Grows both above and bclo\v the 

 gJiats. Trees not numerous. 



Doubtful 



