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A climbing shrub, with large, showy, rose-coloured, bell-shaped flowers: and 
{riangular follicles, abounding in milky. juice. In gardens Bombay, 
flowers in the rains, 
What is the Funis Papit latifolia, Rumph. Amb. 5. ¢. 10.2 It isa pretty 
scandent shrub, and covers a tree on the terrace in Parell garden:—proba- 
bly it was brought there from the Eastern Islands.—It certainly belongs to 
the Asclepiadee. 
ORDER 9{. MENYANTHACEZ. Don’s. syst. 4. p. 167. 
463. VILLARSIA. R. Br. Pentandria Monogynia. 
Villars —a French Botanist. Lam. ¢. 100. Tourn. é. 67. 
927. V. Inpica. Don’s, syst. 4, p. 168, V. simsii Don’s. syst. 4. p. 169. 
Menyanthes indica. Rox. Flora.1. p.460, Rheed. Mal. li, ¢. 28. Rumph, 
Amb. 6. ¢. 72. Bot. Mag, ¢. 658. Asiat. Res. 4. p. 254. t. 30. 
Indian Buckbean.---Au aquatic, with large reniform orbicular leaves: 
Tanks throughout the Concans. 
928. V. Cristara. Sprengels syst. 1. p.582. Menyanthes cristata. Rox. Flo- 
ra. 1. p. 459. Rheed. Mal. 11. ¢. 29, Rox. Cor. 2. t. 105, Don’s. syst. 4. p. 168. 
Crested Buckbean. Au aquatic, with small white flowers, growing from the 
petioles. —Kandalla Tank.—Common in the Concans. 
ORDER 92. GENTIANE. Don’s. syst. 4. p. 173. 
THE GENTIAN TRIBE. Lind. nat. syst. p- 215. 
464. CANSCORA, Don. Tetrandria Monogynia. 
The Malabar name, of C. perfoliata. 
929. C. Dirrusa. Don’s. syst. 4, p. 199. Pladera virgata. Rox. Flora. 1. 
p. 400. Hookers Bot. Misc.’ Part. 3. ¢. 25. 
A pretty annual, with small, pale red, terminal flowers, which appear in Oc- 
tober.—common in Bombay; in theravines at Mahableshwur. &c. 
930. €. Decussata. Don’s. syst. 4. p.199. Pladera decussata. Rox. Flora. 
1. p. 402. Bot. Mag. ¢. 3066-—aunual.—Salsette and OQorun. N. 
931. C. Perrottata. Don’s. syst. 4. p. 199. Pladera perfoliata. Rox. 
Flora. 1. p. 402. Rheed. Mal. 10. ¢. 52. annual, erect, 4 sided, angles wiuged 
——Salsette and Oorun. N. 
465. EXACUM,L. Tetrandria Monogynia, 
Ex—out—ago—to drive; to expel poison. Lam, ¢. 80. Gaert, t. 214. 
932. E. Bicotor. Rox Flora. 1. p. 897. Don’s. syst. 4. p. 212. 
Annual, erect plant, from | to 2 feet high; stems 4 sided; flowers terminal; 
very showy, petals white, tipped with blue, 
Salsette, Kandalla, Wurgaum: generally found by the margins of rivulets; 
Flowers in September and October 
933. E. Tetraconum, Rox. Flora. 1. p. 398. Wall. Pl. Asiat. Rar. ¢. 
276. Don’s. syst. 4. p. 212. 
Annual; about the size of the last species; Flowers terminal: of a beautiful 
blue; appear about the close of the rains.—Salsette. (Lieut. Giberne, 16th 
Regt. N. I.) 
934. E. Zeytanicum. Rox. Flora. 1. p. 398. Chironia trinervii. Linn. 
Burm. Zey. ¢. 67. Don’s. syst. 4. p. 212. 
Annual, flowers pentandrous, of a beautiful violet colour.—Tulla gosala, 
and the Hubshee’s country. N. 
