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120. S. Acura. w. & a. 210. Rheed. Mal. 10. ¢. 53. Rumph. Amb. 5. é. 
18- f. 2, Wight’s Icones. No. 5. ¢. 84.—a shrubby plant with twiggy branches, 
narrow lanceolate leaves and small yellow axillary flowers. @ 
Malabar. Hill; the Scotch Burial Ground Bombay;—not common. 
121. S. Corpironia. w. & a. 219. Rheed. Mal, 10. ¢. 54. Fleming in 
Asiat. Res. 11. p..178.-—a suffruticose plant, leaves cordate, carpels beaked. 
—the Concans. 
122, S. Retusa.w.& a. 215. Rheed. Mal. 10. ¢. 18.---a shrubby plant. 
with short petioled cuneate serrate leaves; peduncles axillary one flowered.--- 
at Kandalla, and probably along the line of Ghauts;---flowers in the rains. 
ORDER 21. BOMBACE/. pve. Prod. 1. p. 475. 
THe Corron Tree Tribe. Lind. nat. syst. p. 35. 
59. HELICTERES. Lt. Mondelphia Decandria. 
Helix---a screw---in allusion to the twisted, screw,like carpels-- Lam, ¢. 
735. Gaert. t. 64, 
— 123. H, Isora. w. & a. 224.. Rheed. Mal. 6, ¢. 30. Bot. Mag. ¢, 2681. 
Ainslie. Mat. Ind.2.p. 447. 
Muradsing,— Kawun,— Kewannie,— Dhamnee—Screw tree. 
A tall shrub or small tree, much resembling the common hazel; flowers 
bright red, showy; appearin the rains,—carpels 5; screw-like; twisted together. 
—Rope may he made from the fibres of the hark of this shrub.—commeon 
throughout the hilly jungly parts of the Concan, and on the Ghauts.—used 
medicinally in diseases of the ears. (Dr. Gibson.) 
124. H. Hirsuta. Dons, syst. 1. p. 507, 
a shrub, with oblong lanceolate serrate leaves.—Parell garden; probably 
intd. from the Eastern Islands.-- Dapooree. (Dr. Gibson) —the fruit is straight, 
and covered with a thick coat of soft bristles. 
125. H. Purpurea. (Dr, Gibson.) 
A shrub with bright red flowers---Dapooree- intd. from Calcutta;—probably 
this is identical with Decandolle’s H. lanceolata, 
- 60. ADANSONIA. t Monodelphia Polyandria. 
Adanson—a French Botanist and traveller in Senegal—Lam. 5. ¢. 588. Gaert. 
t. 135. 
126. A. Dicirata. w.& A. 226. Rox. Flora. 3. p. §64. Bot. Mag. ¢. 2791. 
and 2792, fap 
The Baobob or Monkey Bread tree.---a fantastic looking tree with trunk 
of an immense size close to the ground, but fast tapering and of little height; 
somewhat resembling a cone; flowers large, white; appear in May and June.-- 
near the wilderness Bombay, Colaba, Matoonga; probably -planted:---along 
the sea coast of Guzerat, where the fishermen use_the large fruit as a float 
for their nets. (Bombay Med. Trans.1. p. 18) it is also used medicinally 
by the natives, who like the Africans esteem it cooling; the leaves are eaten 
with their food, and are said to restrain excessive perspiration. 
A few trees are generally found at places where the Musselmen have 
been, but it is not indegenous on this side of India. (Dr. Gibson.) 
61. BOMBAX.1. Monodelphia Polyandria. 
Bombyx—a Greek name for cotton: the capsules are filled with.a kind of 
co tton. 
127. B. Malabaricum. w. & A. 227. B. heptaphyllum. Rox. Flora. 3. p. 
~ 167, Rheed. Mal. 3. t. 52. Asiat. Res. 4, p. 297. Rox. Cor. 3. ¢. 247. Wight’s 
fllust. t, 29. 
