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bracicd. Calyx tiiljular, long, ten striated, bell- 

 mouthed: border five-parted: the divisions sub- 

 ovate, veined, leaf-like, as long as the tube, erect. 

 The rest of the fructification not differing mate- 

 riallv from the "encric characters of LixxiE us. 

 ThcM'hole plant is extremely bitter, and used by the 

 natives in watery infusions as a stomachic. 



DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 



Bigncuia Chclonoidcs. — Grows to a pretty large tree 

 in the neighbourhood of Ilurdxcar and Coadxcara. 

 Nothing* remains to be said in addition to the mi- 

 nute description given of this plant by the late Sir 

 AV iLLiAM Jones, A.sialick Researches, vol. IV. 



Gmelina Arhorea. — A large spreading tree in the 

 neighbourhood of Ilurdzcar, and forests on the 

 skirts of these mountains, now in flower, the fruit 

 ripens about the end o^ May. The wood is light, 

 and used by the natives of Ilimhtstan for making 

 tlie cylinders of those drums called D'holuks. 

 Name of the tree Kum-haar. 



Volkameria ? hicolor. — A very handsome species, (if a 

 Volkameria) the trivial name taken from the party-, 

 coloured corol, one division of which is of a fine 

 blue, the other pure white. Racemes terminal, 

 compound, large. Leaves opposite, petioled, from 

 six to ten pairs on a branchlet, ovate, lance-acu- 

 minated, entire towards the base, above, (as far as 

 the acumen), serrated. Tlie calyxes and seeds of 

 this plant are highly aromatic. It grows in abun- 

 dance in several vallies of these mountains, now in 

 full flower, and ripened seeds. 



Vlte.v trij'oUa. — Common both above and below the 

 ghauts. 



MONADELPHIA INIONOGTNIA. 



A tree in the forests near Coadzcara, now in fruit, gi 

 large beiry, as big as a common sized lemon, and 

 iomewhat of that shape, growing in close clus- 

 ters, 



