87 
677. _L. CHINENSIs? pc. prod. 4. p. 333. Bot. Cab. t. 1037. Bot. Reg. ¢. 712. 
Parell garden &c,---flowers in the rains; of alight yellow colour, This plant 
requires examination. 
678. L. LescHenauLtu. w. & a. 1205. Rox. Flora. (Wallichs Ed.) 2. p. 
178. Don’s. syst. 3. p. 447. 
Leschenaults Honeysuckle; native of the Neilgherries;---a twining, villous 
shrub,—In gardens at Belgaum, where it grows with great luxuriance, (Mr. 
Law. 
! “¢ Bid her steal into the pleached bower, 
Where honey suckles, ripened by the sun, 
Forbid the sun to enter.”’ 
Scene in Leonato’s garden, Much ado about Nothing. 
The elegant Linnea borealis, noticed by Dr. Clarke in his travels in Swe- 
den, belongs to this Tribe, 
ORDER 7. RUBIACE. ve. prod. 4. p. 341. 
TRIBE 1. CINCHONACEAE. 
328. NAUCLEA.L, Pentandria Monogynia. 
Naus---a ship, and kleio---to enclose; in allusion to the shape of the cap- 
sules. Gaert. ¢. 30. Lam. ¢. 153. : 
679. N. Parvirotta. w. & A. 1207. Rox. Flora. 1. p. 513. Rox. Cor. t. 52. 
Kuddum.---A large tree; generally met with about villages throughout the 
Concans;—common in the Mawul districts; the wood is much used for va- 
rious purposes connected with gunnery, (Dr. Gibson.) 
= 
680. N.Corpiroita, w. & a. 1208. Rox Flora. 1. p. 514. Rox. Cor. t. 53. 
Edoo, Eydee.---A middle sized tree, common throughout the Concans;— 
the Bombay Carpenters use the wood for planking &c; but it is of a very in- 
ferior description, and soon decays. 
681. N, CapamBa. Rox. Flora. 1. p. 512. N. purpurea? w. &a. 1209. 
Rheed, Mal. 3. ¢. 33. Linn. Trans. 15. p.90. Rumph. Amb. 3. €. 19. Asiat. 
Res. 4. p. 257. Don’s. syst. 3. p. 467. 
Nhew. Cuddam. Cadamba;—“ the holiest of Indian trees;” grows to a very 
great size;—common ahout villages in the S. Concan. Some very stately 
trees are to be found in a mango grove at Poladpore. The fruit is about 
the size of a small orange, and is eaten by the natives. 
Wight and Arnott in their Prodromus remark, that N.Cadamba is not 
a native of the Peninsula. This is surely the tree. 
329. HYMENODYCTION. pc, Pentandria Monogynia. 
Hymen—a membrane, and dyction—a net; the seeds are girded by a 
netted nembrane. Don’s. syst. 3 p. 481). 
682. H. Excetsum, w. & a, 1211. Cinchona excelsa. Rox. Cor. t. 106. 
Flora, 1. p. 529. Ainslie Mat. Ind, 2. p. 341. Wight’s Icones t. 79. 
Kurdwah---Kurwah, Koodyee.—A tree, with small greenish flowers in ter- 
minal panicles; the bark possesses the bitterness and astringency of Peru- 
vian bark, and may prove an useful substitute;—commoa along the Ghauts; 
flowers’in the rains. 
683. H. THyrstrLorum. pbc. prod. 4. p. 358. Cinchona thyrsiflora, Rox. 
Flora. 1. p: 530. Don’s. syst.3. p. 480. 
Seereed. Kurwee;—a tree; flowers in July, in drooping thyrses; some 
what resembling Panicum italicum. Salsette and Jowar Jungles. H. Slace- 
dum, Wall. As. Pl. rar, 2. ¢, 188. is a closely allied species. 
