5 
Commo: ) every where in hedges and jungles; fruit size of a small Cherry, 
red succulent. 
The extract of Guluncha recommended asa febrifuge, is procured from 
the bruized stems of this species. Wight’s Lllust, Part. 2. p. 21, 
28. C. Acuminatus.w. & A. 44. Rheed. Mal. 7.¢.3. 
A large twining shrub.—The Concans. N. 
29. C. Macrocarpus, w. & a. 45. Wight’s Illust, Part 1. ¢. 7. 
Ram-rick, Wat-wail; a large scandent shrub; leaves like those of Cissam- 
pelos convolvulacea; flowers “February and March; small yellowish white; in 
racemes from the main stems.—The Ghauts, pretty common. 
15. CLYPEA, w. & a. Dioecia Monodelphia. 
Clypeus—a shield; in allusion to the shape of the leaves. 
30. C. BurmManni.w. & A. 50. Rheed. Mal. 7. ¢. 49. 
Pakur; scandent herbaceous plant, with long cordate or triangular leaves. 
The Ghauts; hilly parts of the Concan—not very common. 
§6. CISSAMPELOS, L. Dioecia Monodelphia. 
Kissos-ivy-ampelos, a vine; climbers like ivy, with fruit in clusters like the 
yine. Lam ¢. 830. 
81. C. CoNVOLVULACEA. Ww. & A, 5). 
A twining herbaceous plant, with somewhat orbicular leaves; flowers yel- 
lowish, very small. 
Wariner in hedges; flowers in the rains. Dr. Royle writing of the famous 
poison “ Bish” says, this plant is called Dukh nirbisee in N. W. Bengal Pro- 
vinces, (see his Illust. Part 2. p. 50.) 
“ 
/ ORDER G. NYMPHAEACE4.. pc. prod. 1. p. 113. 
Tue Water Litty Tribe, Lind. nat. syst. p. 10° 
{7- NELUMBIUM. pc. Polyandria Polyginia. 
Nelumbo,—Ceylon name. Lam. ¢. 463. Gaert ¢. 19. 
32. N. Speciosum. w. & A. 54. Bot. Mag. ¢. 903. Rheed. Mal, 11. #@ 30. 
and 31. Cyamus nelumbo. Smith’s Exo. Bot 1. ¢ 31. p. 32. 
Wieht’s fllust, Part 2. ¢. 9. Asiat. Res. 4. p. 286. 
The sacred bean of India; adopted as the symbol of fertility.—In tanks 
throughout the Concan; flowers of various lively hues of rose colour, and 
more beautiful even than those of the beautiful Nymphea rubra;—appear 
about the beginning of the rains. 
« The mode of propagation is very peculiar and unlike any thing else 
in the vegetable kingdom” (Life of Sir J. E Smith, 2. p. 229.) 
18. NYMPHAEA. L. Polyandria Polyginia. 
Nymphe—a water nymph; aquatics, Lam, ¢. 453. Gaert ¢. 19. 
33. N. STeLtaTa. w. & 4.53, Rheed, Mal. 11. ¢. 27-—-in tanks, leaves pel- 
tate, entire; flowers blue. : 
34. N. Rusra. w. & A. 56. Wight’s Ilust. ee t. 10. Bot. Mag. 1280, 
and 1364. Castalia magnifica. Salish. Parad, ¢. 
Kummul—Red flowering lotus; in tanks, natant in the neighbourhood 
of Caves or Temples. Flowers about the close of the rains; of a dark crimson 
colour; very beautiful. Southey has painted it to the life. 
** Around the lotus ‘stem 
It rippled, and the sacred flowers that crown 
The Jakelet with their roseate beauty, ride 
